Grace's Classroom

While I was at Grace's Halloween party I took some pictures of her classroom. It is packed full of stuff, mostly made by the students. It's a little bit of visual overload for me, but I guess that's what a kindergarten classroom is supposed to be like.

This is a big graph of each kid and how many letters are in their names. It is hung on the back of a door. This is hung from the ceiling. It is a label for the listening center. It has pictures of the students in the center and the label is written by a student. She has one hung from the ceiling for each center.

This is the sign hung for the Home Living center.

This is the sign for the Puppet center. Grace is the little girl on the left in the picture.

This is the pocket chart where they assign which students will go to each center.

This is the book center. All of the books are in separate tubs labeled with what type of books they are.

This just a picture of a wall. The alphabet letters were made by the kids. Each child was assigned a specific letter. Grace was given the letter "H". They had to bring about small items that started with that letter to glue to the letter. Grace drew a million little bitty hearts for us to cut out. The birthday cakes were water colored by the students. There is one for each month and the children who have a birthday that month are on the correct cake.

Each morning during their "morning meeting" time, they write the Daily News. Then they are hung from a clothesline in the room for the entire week. Each day she takes a different student to help with the Daily News. They get to write some of the words and tell something to put on the news.

This is a bulletin board with spider web art on it. Each one has a label on it of the student's name that they wrote themselves. The boarder around the board has a picture of each child with their painted hand print. Then she gave them dot painters and let each one decorate the boarder around their name and picture.

This is a picture of the front of the class. It shows their calendar board and at the time she had the projection screen down showing a slide show of pictures she had taken. Ms. Heim uses a digital camera and takes tons of pictures of the kids.

There was a lot more I could have taken pictures of, but I had to get back to the party. :)