physical+environment

**First Placement:**

The classroom has an overall lady bug theme. The desks are arranged in a u shape with a table group of 6 desks in the middle.

The room has many separate centers. There is an art center, a listening center, a writing center, an art center, a reading center, and a math center. There is also an area set aside for morning math meeting.

Reading center Morning math meeting area

Art center

**Second Placement:**

This room is arranged much differently than my first one. The desks are divided into four different tables. One table consists of six students and the other three consist of five students. Each table has a "table captain". This person is responsible for handing out materials to everyone at their table. This cuts down on time that the teacher would have to spend passing things out.



This teacher has a hanging cloth pocket rack that the students turn their homework into every morning. Each student has a number and a pocket that coincides with their number. The students also turn in the work that they do throughout the day into the pockets. This way each student's work is easily grouped together.

Homework pockets

The only center that this teacher does is reading centers. She has a chart on the front of her desk where the students can pick what centers they want to go. There are three rounds of centers each day, so the students do three different things daily. She has a read to self center where the student reads a book alone. She has a read with a partner center where two students get together and read to each other and quiz each other on comprehension. She has a work on words center where students work on their spelling words by writing them on a dry erase board, spelling them out with letters on bottle caps, or making them with dot paint. She has a center where students can listen to a story and follow along with an animation on the computers. She also sometimes places the students who need extra help into a group with her or the parapro.

Reading Rounds Chart

Round strategies chart

Reading Loft

Computers for listening to stories