one week and counting!

I have been MIA, this move is killing me!  We are STILL waiting for our new house to close (it was supposed to close July 26th) and living in Grandma's basement without WiFi is BRU.TAL.  Being 200+ miles from my friends is HARD.  Staring at a new school and a new district with different ideas is unsettling.  BUT I can do this and I really am excited for a new school year.

Since I can't move into a house yet... which sooooo I wish I could, I have been getting my classroom ready.  School starts one week from TODAY (which with my luck will also be the day we finally close on this house).  So here is a sneak peak of what I have been up to,   sorry about the crappy cell phone pics, who knows where my camera got packed!

WARNING: crappy cell phone picture overload, proceed at own risk.

Freebie, Freebie, Freebie!!!

It is late... the house is silent.  All three kiddos and the hubby are sleeping.  I tried to join them, I really did but my mind is racing... so much to do!!!  So I crept out of bed and got to work.  I needed nameplates, I need to get them printed PRONTO and laminated so I can stick them on my kidlets pencil boxes... yep that's right pencil boxes.  (I got them for $.54/each at Walmart)

You see with 2 sessions of Kinder I HATE sticking nameplates to the tables... for some kiddos it confuses them, to have so many names adhered to one table... and it gets kinda cluttered.  Plus when they move around during centers they can't see their name, which so many of them need to see so that they can write it on their papers at the beginning of the year.  Solution?  Pencil boxes.  I stick their name on their pencil box.  they take it with them everywhere.  At the end of the day they put it in their cubby and we repeat the process again in the afternoon.  I love it.

So what am I doing at midnight?  I am stressing about my nameplates because my kinder classes start Tuesday, I am testing my last 2 kiddos on Monday... I will have my final class lists as soon as I am done testing and I can FINALLY put their names on things, finally.  Just in time for them to walk in the door.

I made them in yellow and green, since that is how I divide my classes.  Yellow for AM and Green for PM.  I hope you can use them.  I am loading them to my Google Docs.  Feel free to download HERE.
Now maybe I should try and get some sleep, otherwise I may be snoring through church tomorrow... or today rather.... but my house is so quiet, it is hard to not just sit here and enjoy it.

First Day (and classroom reveal)

Warning: Picture overload. 

We had our first day with kidlets today... whew!  I was only testing but still... I am exhausted.  I know I promised the big classroom reveal over the weekend but I haven't had a minute to even log onto my computer let alone post pictures... eek!  I love my new little kinder kids though it is going to be a GREAT year!

So without further ado here is my room.... sorry about all the pics, just stop NOW if you are not up for the overload.  I am linking up:

My center chart with cards at the top for grouping the kiddo into their center rotations.

Our book nook and listening center

book storage.  picture-word journals, missing: zero the hero books, math books.  

Math Manipulatives

Student Computers

View from outside door.

View from outside door (facing hallway door).

School Pledge, Class Rules, Alphabet Line

My little corner

Easel, Art Table, Dramatic Play Center

Below Whiteboard

View facing whiteboard

My ABC chart (it is a freebie at my TpT store)

Behavior Charts, File Cabinets

Sharp/Not Sharp

One of my sweet kinder kidlets from last year gave me this quote on the last day of school.  I was so glad I could keep it to take to my new room with me.  Love.

What did I do before pinterest??

My Number Cards (they are only $1 check them out at my TpT store)

Math Wall

View from inside door facing  outside door

View of my little corner of the world.  Desk, small group table, files, etc.

Puzzle table: extra puzzles are stored under the table I had intentions of making a table skirt to hide the mess, didn't happen.  Hiding behind my shelf curtains are more math supplies.

Writing Table: we will be adding to this as the year progresses.

That little corner with the green curtain is where I hide all my copies to be made and waiting to be used.

Notice my blank space on the back wall... that is for our anchor charts we will be making.

Hope you enjoyed your tour... if you lasted that long and didn't close the browser half way through.  I am excited to share this bright space with my kiddos.  Ready or not... they have come!  Whew.  Now I have to go eat, cuddle with my babies (who I missed TERRIBLY) and put my feet up.

Oh and check me out at Teaching Madness, I am being featured over there today as a budding blogger!  Thanks Amanda!