CLASSROOM SETUP 2023 || I’m in love with my room! 

I’m sure this is obvious, but if you are planning for things that come up every year take your time the first year and then save those plans for next year. I also planned with my teammate. I made reading plans, she made math plans and then we both taught them and saved them. Of course, they were tweaked the next year, but it saved time in the long run. Same with slides saved in your computer. I saved mine month by month. Also, one thing I did for special days like holidays, was print copies for the next year and save them. That way, I always had something for an emergency sub to do if I got sick and had no plans.

In my classroom, I have my class hours and when the bell rings above my BENQ board or on the white board. One of the two I do every school year!

The vines look good, just straighten the ones on the left side to match the right

You can use the extra rainbow cart as a STEAM cart and add different activities in each drawer - for example: Legos in 1 drawer. I saw that on Chelsie's channel- Yo It's Chels, she's a 3rd grade teacher. Her classroom set up videos are up. Love your Booklfix board - it inspired me to create an ARTFLIX board - I teach K-5 Elementary Art. 😊

Student 10 drawer cart: construction paper, lined paper, printer paper, coloring sheet, early finishers, maybe whole group crayons and colored pencils (not sure how much 5th graders use those), Maybe extra copys of bookmarks or sheets to fun track their reading.

If you don't fill the book flix board, you could do "books we've read" or "books i've (you as a teacher) read"

For the Bookflix board, you could have them take a book "shelfie" - pictures of students with their favorite book or a student graffiti wall with one of those rolls of paper where they could write a quick sentence or two about the book they read or a favorite quote from a book, etc.

Put the labels and magnets in the drawers.

I store my students reading and writing notebooks by group in each drawer

Hey girlie! How's life been? Missed you on here. I hope you're doing well and your school year is off to a great start!