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Ms. Barth
A different 2nd grade classroom's floor instructional area. Notice the objectives, neatly-written warm-up, and class message written on the chalk and wipe off boards.
This is how she arranges her desks. This picture is old, but she always puts her desks in pods, or groups, of four and five. This was by far the most popular arrangement at my school, but more and more variations are popping up. Some teachers leave an extra desk in each pod for book bins, work to be turned in, supplies, etc.
Here's another view from the same 2nd grade teacher's room. You can see her word wall on the chalkboard. I also put magentic strips on the back of the word cards so kids could manipulate them, and I think it's a great strategy to make word walls more interactive. This is such an inviting corner, I always want to run over to the rocker and relax!
A poster in the room above.
This is one of her wall displays which I plant to use this year. They made tombstones for over-used words, such as 'good' and 'pretty', and wrote alternative words for them on the tombstones and flowers (such as beautiful, lovely, and other more descriptive words). I would like to use this idea around Halloween when we teach Descriptive Words, and I may even have the kids wrote eulogies for the overused words telling why they deserve to be 'laid to rest'.
Here's her classroom rules poster. I believe they brainstormed them together. I like the bottom part where it says, 'What Are My Choices?" so kids know what to do when they are tempted to break a rule.
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