Classroom Library & Misc. Pre-planning!

My daily thoughts lately have been, "so much to do, so little time!"  I feel like the school year has crept up on me very quickly!  In just 5 days my parents and students will be coming into the classroom for open house and then in exactly one week from tomorrow we will have our FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!  EEK! How exciting, but nerve-racking as well!

So, what have I done since last time that I can share with you?  I've finally finished my classroom library!  This has been the most drawn out project in the room, but I am completely satisfied!  Greg came to the classroom with me on Sunday evening and we labeled each bin of books with a color and capital letter.  We cut matching color construction paper bookmarks with the same capital letter as their corresponding bin.  This will enable students to put their books back in the correct bin and it will also allow me to control exactly which books they are reading at what time.  For example, I can say, "please choose a book to read from bin Q"  and I know that the books in bin Q are math books.  See my pictures below!

Another thing that I have worked on to prepare for the kids is to label their coat hooks and prepare my name sticks.  Using name sticks allows me to quickly and easily pick students in a fair way for groups or to call on them for answering questions. 

I would love to share more, but there's so much to do and so little time!  Blog more soon!  Happy Planning!