School is starting tomorrow!! Aahhh!! I hope I'm ready!

I feel like my room is definitely ready! :)  I'm super pumped about my brand new writing center for this year! (Inspired by Mrs. Lemons) 

The above picture isn't the complete finished center, but I got anxious and wanted to post a picture now! :)

This cute "What do Writers Write" pencil is a FREEBIE that can be found HERE! I absolutely love it!

I purchased this Writing Center Starter Kit by A Cupcake For The Teacher yesterday on TPT and I love it!! I bought a trifold poster board at the Dollar Tree to set it all up on and I think it turned out pretty great! I also love that this center kit has blank writing templates so my students can actually write things just like the examples! I'm so excited for my students to see this writing center!

These crates hold my writing center materials. 

• The top left crate has primary writing paper and colored pencils so my students can rainbow write words they see around the room. 
• The bottom left crate has a file folder holder full of file folders. Each folder contains the templates  that go with each writing type that is on the Writing Center poster board. This crate also holds the pen/marker caddy for the center.
• The top right caddy is going to hold a Writing Folder for each of my students.
• The bottom right caddy contains dry erase sentence strips and alphabet practice books. These are for the students to use at the beginning of the school year to practice writing the alphabet. 

I know I won't be introducing the Writing Center to my students for a while, but I'm hoping they'll be intrigued and excited by it! :)

FREEBIE!!

To celebrate the opening of my brand new blog I've decided to offer a FREEBIE that I just made for my TPT store! Get it here first, and get it for FREE! Woo! Who doesn't love free?!?! :)

Snag this Johnny Appleseed themed Math Addition Fact Write the Room Activity HERE!!!!

I'll be adding this to my TPT store soon, but I figured I'd let all of my Pinterest/blog followers get it first!!......Oh yeah, did I mention you can get it here for FREE!!! :)

My First Post!!

For my first post ever I wanted to start out with a couple pictures of my rockin' 1st grade classroom! My school is going with a "School Rocks" theme for this year and I am sooooo excited!! My room is not completely finished yet, but I wanted to post a few fun pics anyway! 

These colorful book baskets are going to be my Read to Self baskets! I found these awesome things at the Dollar Tree. Score!

I'm totally in love with this guitar behavior chart! ( I got the idea and template from Babbling Abby at The Inspired Apple) I really think my kiddos are going to love it!

More rockin' classroom pictures to come.......