Tuesday, August 22, 2017

My Pete the Cat Classroom

Welcome to my Pete the Cat Classroom! I have had a bee classroom for almost ten years and was thinking about changing when Oriental Trading contacted me about writing a back to school post!  I chose many Pete the cat themed materials and can't wait to showcase them for you!


Here is my classroom library!  I had this precious library front built this summer for my new Pete theme.


This precious Pete is from Oriental Trading! My awesome mother in law made me the little pillows beneath Pete.  She's the best!


I organize my library by topic.  Each group of books has a coordinating label on the front of the tub that matches the back of each book in that tub.  These labels are from Krazee for Kindergarten's TPT shop. These books are perfect for "read the pictures" in Daily Five.


I also have emergent readers in organized in tubs by DRA level.  This helps my littles choose books that they can "read the words" in Daily Five.


The back of my library leads to my whole group area.  I attached felt to the back of my library shelves for story retelling with felt pieces.


My calendar is from Oriental Trading! I got these awesome Sit Spots at I Teach K this summer, where I presented about guided reading.


The back of my whole group area easel hold this pocket chart.  These are our MEOW pockets.  Meow stands for My Extraordinary Organized Work.  This is our unfinished work.  



Next to our MEOW pockets is the dramatic play area.  I change this out once a month to be a different science theme.


Some of our cozy spots stay behind the whole group easel.  These are our scoop rockers and laundry basket seats.


This is our STEM building area.


Next to it is this long white board where we build our focus walls for science and math, as well as our iMovie alphabet wall.  I created a little Pete bunting to go above this wall.


iMovie Alphabet is where we place our QR codes that link to a movie we create for each letter of the alphabet.  Students scan these during Daily Five for one of our Listen to Reading choices.


Our little clip chart


Here is my small group area.


This shelf holds many of my reading group manipulatives, my assessments tubs and my sub tub, as well as our PAWS folders - Positive and Wonderful Students!


I found this cutie cart at Lowe's years ago.  It holds all of my teaching materials for each day of the week.


This little blue cart from Mardel's hold my reading groups emergent readers' as well as my math groups' materials. On top is my teacher toolbox.


I got this awesome easel through Donors Choose a few years ago.  Currently it's holding a donations sign for meet the teacher, but during the year it's used for math and reading groups.


These little stools are form IKEA.  They hold transition games for my littles to play while they wait for me to join them for their small group.


This is the view from my table.


Here is my Pete the Cat Word Wall.  These came from Oriental Trading!


We love our Promethean Board and iPad cart!  We are blessed to have ten iPads in this awesome charging cart.  Under the Promethean Board are two bean bag chairs for cozy spots.


Our art station is right past the Promethean.  The top of the station holds our Listening to Reading Leap Frog Pads.


Here are our Creative Activities Tubs (CAT) that hold differentiated games for kiddos to play when they finish their work as a transition activity.  


This is where Work on Writing activities will go for Daily Five.


The sink area holds our robots that we use during our maker spaces.  They're put away right now.


Here are my Beanie Baby Reading Strategies posters.  In the frames are the 8 thinking maps.


More cozy spots!  I got these stability ball chairs through Donors Choose.


Wobble stools are also cozy spots...


tray tables too!


Cubbies and book boxes


This shelf is for math stations materials and writer's workshop paper.


This little cart holds Word Work materials for Daily Five.  All of the cute little posters are FREE here.


If you want any of my Pete creations, here is a folder with all of it for FREE!

I hope you have an awesome year!!

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