Welcome to My Classroom

Welcome to Tales of a Looping Teacher! 

I am so excited that you are here to visit as I blog about my experience as a looping teacher. For the last three years, I taught the same group of students for third, fourth, and fifth grade. It was such an amazing and worthwhile experience that I will be doing it again! I will teach a new group of students for third through fifth. This blog will host my ideas, lessons, and advice for not only looping teachers, but anyone who teaches third, fourth, and fifth grade.

This journey will obviously start with ideas about third grade. I teach all subjects in my class. I will start with 18 students in August and am busily preparing this summer to get ready! Yesterday, I visited my classroom to just poke around and drop things off. Here is a look at my packed up classroom:

This is the view from where my desk was last year. You can see the door, bathroom, and where my writing center was last year. This will be revamped over the next month, as I decided to change my theme for my new group of kiddos.

My cubbies make my want to cry! There is SO much to unpack before the kiddos return as well as reorganize from my "I don't want to be here any longer" at the end of last school year.

This view shows where my laptops used to go. This year, I will put my desk here. I was fortunate enough to receive a class set of Chromebooks last year, so good bye ancient, slow moving laptops!

Lastly, this was where I did my small group work. I do small groups in ELA and math. I will share about that later. This year, I decided this area will be my meeting area for mini lessons and morning meeting.

I am so excited to share what I am doing in my classroom during the year and as I prepare for this coming school year! Stay tuned for upcoming fun!

~Kelly