Book Bin Labels

More time in the classroom today. I made new labels for my book bins. Dots make me happy and I decided the bins needed some. I love the way they turned out!

Students are more likely to keep our books organized when there is a picture of a book that belongs in the bin. I use the clear shoe boxes from Target as my book bins and made these labels to fit them perfectly! They'll make our classroom even happier.

Summer is fun because I have time to do projects like re-label all my bins. Once the kiddos are here, there won't be any time for that. Since I'm working on being less of a teachaholic, I'm really going to work on not doing a million extra things that don't have to be done.

Confessions of a Teachaholic

School begins in 27 days. That means I still have a lot of time. However, last week I couldn't fall asleep because I was thinking about how I was going to organize my classroom. My husband laughed when I told him the reason for my insomnia. He's knows he married a teachaholic. (I'm sure he's thinking, "Oh no, it's already starting!) Knowing I wouldn't be able to turn off my teacher brain, I told him I was getting up to type out some thoughts about my classroom so I could get it out of my head and fall asleep. (Do you ever worry your brilliant, middle-of-the-night thoughts will be lost before morning if you don't get them down on paper... or laptop? I do.) An hour of typing later, I was finished and ready to sleep.

So of course the next day I had to get into my classroom to begin setting up. Here's what I came back to. A clean slate. Which can also be a little overwhelming slate.



It's amazing to me that all that furniture fits on the strip of tile.

   

I spent a few hours moving and arranging furniture. These are a few areas I created. First, an area for parent volunteers to work with students while I'm doing reading groups. This may double as my listening center.




I should have closed that door.

  Behind the bookshelf is my desk. It has to be here because of the placement of the SMART board hookups. My laptop and document camera need to be there too. The bookshelf on the end holds my document camera.



That's all the pictures I'm sharing for now. I have lots more work to do. I need to figure out how to make these four things work best for me. This is what's most important to me.