Classroom Reveal

Well, here is the big classroom reveal! We have made it throughout first week of preschool and are getting ready to start our second week! 

Here is a picture looking in the room from the hallway. Straight ahead area our cubbies

 To the right is our kitchen/dramatic play area. Apparently I didn't get a good picture of that area, so I'll have to post another picture of that later.  You can also see our writing area by the whiteboard and our art center by the easels.

Our craft table and shelves for our pencil boxes and our shelves with our manipulatives on it. 

A view of the back of the room, circle time area, reading center, and car table.

A picture of the reading center. I love this area, it definitely turned it a lot cuter this year, and I am absolutely loving it!

A close up of our car table, with other manipulatives, people, animals, etc. This has been one of the most popular places to be this week! The kids have absolutely loved being in this center, especially the boys.

My block and building center. It includes many different types of blocks. The kids have enjoyed the tools and the hardhats this past week. 

Our puzzle center, with our Dora house, which was wildly popular this week, as well!

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my classroom! This was a short tour, I will post more in-depth pictures of the various centers as we go along. 

Classroom: The Before Pictures

Here are the before pictures of my preschool classroom. 

The back of the room.

The other back corner.

My new closet with our heating and air conditioning units!

The front of the room.

Be on the lookout for the "after" pictures coming out shortly!

Duct Tape Borders

I told you I was in love with fun duct tape! Here's another use I found for this wonderful invention! Duct tape makes a Wonderful border! It comes in lots of different colors and designs and makes for a nice straight border. In the picture below you can see that I used it around my whiteboards in the back of the classroom where I plan to have circle time. As you can see on the top picture, it is on top of the old chalkboard and I didn't like that I could see the raw edges, so I decided to cover them up. This is where the duct tape comes in. It didn't take me very long to put up, and I was very happy with the results!

A look at my completed board all ready for circle time! It's hard to tell from the pictures, but those are actually mustaches on the right side of the board! A look at my finished classroom will be going up within the next few days!