My desk is in the front corner of my room. It holds every pen or pencil known to man and the mixer box for my classroom speakers. I play music through my computer but it is set up to quickly play from my phone if I need to.
This wall contains my light up treble staff and the board where I'll post my student objectives for the week. I am in the smallest room I've taught in and storage is limited for instruments. On this board I have the descriptors for our grading scale. We use standards based grading and I ask students to check where they are with our learning goals for the day and show me by raising fingers to go with the scale below.
The chicken's name is HENnifer Lopez. She is sometimes used as a reward.
This light up treble staff display is one of my favorite things. You can learn how to make your own HERE. The butterflies are sitting on magnetic shelves. As the school year goes on, I plan to display books that we are reading or that connect with a subject we are learning about.
I painted this rocking chair a few years ago and my students love it. Actually teachers and staff members love it too. When they come in to talk they often ending up rocking and talking! The light up mushrooms don't heat up and I love the way they look.
This corner is used mostly for storage. On the shelves in front and behind the chairs is where I store my Orff instruments. I really only use the chairs second semester but we don't have a place to store them until then.
The Boomwhackers are stored in plastic bag storage containers from IKEA. I have Boomwhackers in each container.
I use my cabinet doors for extra display area. When we are studying instrument families or working in stations, I utilize this area as a reference for students. You can take a closer look at these instrument family posters HERE.
My media cart holds a classroom set of iPads. On top there are groovy containers for Kleenex, hand sanitizer and spray and a stack of blank paper. The cart is near my classroom door so that students can put their iPads up on their way out the door. The cute mushrooms are from Schoolgirl Style.
This is the back of the room that displays some bulletin boards that I will leave up all year. On the shelves my library is sorted by categories. You can read about this organizational system and download some files to get you started by reading more about it in Organizing Books in Your Music Library.
The pillows are used during workstation time. Students love grabbing one and sitting on it or laying on it during reading time
You can take a closer look at more of the files I used in my retro groovy classroom here. I hope you have the best school year ever!
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