I tried the theme thing last year, and went broke. So no theme this year, just busy but organized! I am not completely done, I need to put community supplies on the desks,"hide" all those textbooks on top of bookcase, and some other finishing touches. I hope you all enjoy! Our hallway bulletin board View from back of the room Meeting area/Calendar Math and Bible Board View from back right of the room-my desk area, and Phonics Board-that is a white dry erase poster with primary writing lines on the chalkboard-I despise writing with chalk! The Infamous Word Wall Our Behavior Management board-stole this idea from another A to Z member-every student has a little stick person with their number on it Class library-free choice books are on the top shelf, curriculum readers are on the bottom shelf. Student textbooks stacked on top-but they will be moved once I find somewhere to put them!
That was my exact question too! We don't do cursive until third grade... but this appears to be a private school?
Thank you all!! I'll take more tomorrow when everything is all set up. To answer everyone's questions-I am at a private school-and the curriculum actually starts the cursive writing process in K4 (4 year old PRESCHOOL!!!). I'm on the fence about that, but whatever. So my curriculum expects that most students know how to recognize letters in print/cursive which is why in all of the classrooms you will find that letter banner (you can't see it, but there are small letters in print right above the cursive letter.
I love the Dr. Seuess board! Same question though, do you teach cursive in Kinder? We teach D'Nealian instead of manuscript but we don't get into cursive until third grade.
Looks good! You must teach ABeka! We have moved away from ABeka - which is fine with me - I didn't particularly love it.
