I love seeing pictures of other people’s classrooms to get ideas of what I can do in my own room, so I thought I’d share a few of my own photos of my classroom this year. I teach preschool at a local elementary school. Our preschool program is unique in that two certified teachers share a classroom and each teach half a day meaning that all areas of the room have to be shared by two groups of teachers and two groups of students. In our room the morning teacher puts all of her things for her class on blue and I put all of mine on red. We use black, white, and gray for all of the items we both share in our room.

We only have one large bulletin board in our room, so we divide it in half for each class to use. We bought matching blue and red fabric to cover our boards. I typically create a timeline of our learning and hang up pictures of the students under each months header.

These are our cubbies and art boards. Again the morning classes names and letterlink symbols are on the blue paper and my classes names and letter links are on the red. We hang their artboards to display their artwork above their cubbies.

This year we refined our “daily objectives” board. The left half is for the morning teacher and the right half is my PM group. Each day we will display a photo picture of what we are doing at Large and Small group times (i.e. singing, alphabet, food experiences, etc.) for our preschoolers/non-readers to be able to see what we will be learning about. We will also be writing our objective for learning next to the pictures for adults who enter our room to know what we are learning about more specifically each day. The bottom six boxes are for each of the areas in our room (art, block, book, house, toy, & sand/water) that we will place pictures of what is new in each area for the week.  I created the daily objectives board on 1/3 of the whiteboard in our classroom. I used vinyl letters cut from a crickit to make that Today We Are Learning… so I don’t have to rewrite it each day 🙂 I used washi tape bought on Etsy.com to make the borders as it comes off easily without leaving sticky residue and then typed up the schedule times using the pictures from our daily schedule.

This is our daily schedule board. We wrapped a foam board in black polka dot fabric and attached velcro on it for our schedule. This allows both the morning and afternoon class to use the same schedule board by simply taking off the pictures and arranging them in the correct order for the current class of students. We keep our schedule on the whiteboard using a magnetic shelf bought at Lakeshore Learning. We didn’t like the blue color of the shelf so we washi taped it with the same tape from the daily objective board to make everything match.

We only have a few bulletin boards in our room so we share this one for our family photos. We put up stock family photos purchased from Lakeshore to start the year and then add in our own students family photos as the year goes on. This year we added the words for family in some of the languages that our students speak (our district has 57 languages!). I LOVE how it looks!

This is our cupboards that we have in our room. We use the fabric bins for storing teaching materials in that we access daily and for organizing our small group materials. The morning classes have blue bins and the afternoon class has red bins.

This is one of my favorite areas in my room! Our color wall hangs in our art area and features vinyl wall decals from the story Brown Bear Brown Bear. We have the color words for each animal written around it to represent the 4 most common languages spoken in our classrooms (English, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian). I am hoping to add new words this year as I have some new home languages represented in my class this year. One of my students moms a few years ago made my Arabic words for me! I love it and my students reference this wall a lot and enjoy learning how to write words in the home languages of their friends! 🙂