Picture+Ideas

=**Picture Ideas **=

 **This is the backpack and lunchbox area.**

 **These are the organizational student cubbies. They are numbered 1-21 in alphabetical order. Here, the kids keep all of their textbooks, dry-erase boards, markers, and math manipulatives.**

 **This is the current arrangement of the classroom, but Mrs. Brown likes to change it up often. The u-shape of the desks allows every student a good view of the board where the majority of instruction takes place.**

 **This is one of the technology areas in the classroom. There is another section with two more computers. Here, the kids can do their weekly blogs, practice their spelling words on Spelling City, publish their writing, and even do teacher-instructed or individual research for their inquiry projects.**

 **This is the reading corner of Mrs. Brown's classroom. Here, the kids can choose one of her personal books, a library book, or one of their assigned readings. The orange bins contain each student's library books for the week, their reading assignment or project information, and their reading logs. These bins are numbered 1-21 as well and are in alphabetical order.**

 **This is the meeting corner where Calendar Math takes place.**

 **"Oh, the Places We'll Go" by Dr. Seuss is the theme for third grade this year. The Georgia Performance Standards covered in each unit are posted here as they are introduced. The standards are largely and boldly printed in kid-friendly language appropriate for third grade.**

 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">**This is the area of the board where the Essential Question is written each day. To the left of the Essential Question, daily and weekly homework is written for the students to copy onto their homework chart at the end of every day. The classroom rules and the 8 Steps of Model Drawing are also posted here for periodic reference.**


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">This is a picture of CAFE. CAFE is a method of teaching reading where the focus is on comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expansion of vocabulary. **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">**This is an idea for designating and posting classroom jobs. You could alternate through alphabetical order or another method of your choice. Classroom jobs give students a sense of pride and responsibility.** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">This is a great example of how to manage literacy centers. The students can be put into groups based on reading level or by random selection. Then each group could participate in three centers daily, if time allows. The students can be taught to go straight to their centers for the day based on the cards under their names. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">