Happy Thursday, friends! Today is registration at my school and I am super excited to meet some of my kiddos. 🙂
I am fairly certain the 5th grade team thinks I am never going finish organizing the books in my room. I have made SO many stacks alllllll over the room…it is like a literature maze…but really. Regardless, it is how the process works for me and I am happy to report the end is in sight! On Tuesday, my books looked like this…
And today, I printed my book bin labels and started hot gluing them!!!! Woohooooo 🙂 *Fingers crossed* I will finish up today so I can move on to things like bulletin boards and desk organizing and putting up my word wall and oh yeah, that little thing called planning what I am going to teach- ha! (UPDATE – You can read about and see how I curated my 5th grade classroom library here.)
With that said, I am going to head out for a little bit, but wanted to thank you all for the HUGE support of some of the new things I have been trying out for my classroom. As a ‘thank-you’ I would love to give away some of my new products! Just pin away (or as many times as you would like!) and leave the link below. I have even made it easy for you and linked up each pack in Rafflecopter. You can Pin as many things as you like until Saturday evening, and then, I’ll email 3 winners the product they shared!
Are you back in school??? If so, have courage and have fun. You can do it. If not, bask in the glory of the sun. 🙂 Happy Thursday, friends!
I spent about 3.5 days setting up my classroom – 1 entire day was devoted to organizing my library. It takes a while if you don't have your system already set up yet!
Lauren
The Sweetest Thing
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Welcome to the greatest grade, Catherine! 🙂 I know it'll be a big jump from first, but it seems that you are up to the challenge. I *LOVE* your Subway genre posters and will be pinning them each day 🙂 I also really like your iRead book bin labels. Question: do you have ALL of your books in bins? I teach 5th also and found that I just had too many books to put them all in bins – and not enough shelving space. I have about 12 book bins (sorted by author), but the rest of my books are just sorted by genre on book shelves.
Another Question: are your book tubs plastic shoe boxes? like the type you could get at Target? Or are they specifically built for books?
Have a wonderful day setting up – I don't start until after Labor Day, but I'm eager to get into my classroom and start setting up. Until then, I guess I'll work diligently…and soak up the sun 🙂
A fellow fifth grade friend,
~Jessica
Joy in the Journey
Hi Catherine,
It'll be my first year teaching 5th this year as well… I'm as nervous as I am excited! I love the book bin labels that you made – they're so cute! Can't wait to follow you throughout the school year and share some ideas. 🙂
Jo Anne
Teaching in Cardigans
Hi Jessica! It is a jump and I am terrified but thrilled. As I have looked at the curriculum for 5th grade, I am SO impressed at how much cool stuff we get to cover and learn about. 🙂
Being a first year teacher, I have a good amount of books but not a ton. I keep a majority of my fiction and nonfiction in book bins. All my reference books do not go in bins – they go just on a shelf. Then, any book that I have more than 3 copies of goes in my literature circle containers (that are split between my filing cabinets and large containers above my classroom lockers). In terms of organization, I did some authors (if I had more than 5/6 books by him/her) and then, genre ish. All my fiction books are on one shelf and non-fiction on a separate shelf.
I actually got my bins from Lowes this week – http://www.lowes.com/pd_274123-55449-BELLW1600014736_0__?productId=3692152&Ntt=6+quart+storage&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNtt%3D6%2Bquart%2Bstorage&facetInfo=. Although I would have loved to buy actual book bins, as a first year teacher I am buying so many other things that I could not swing it. The bins I got are really nice and deep. Plus, they are actually clear (rather than the typical white frosty look). The best part- this week they were on sale for a dollar!
I cannot imagine how impatient I would be if I couldn't go to school during the summer. With that said, it is kind of nice to have that boundary drawn! Thank you so much for stopping by; I hope you enjoy your last few weeks of summer.
-C
LOVE LOVE LOVE your new products! Adorable!
Kaitlin
K&C Love Grade 3
I've been agonizing over my books. I really wanted to put them in bins but haven't been able to find any to suit! So I've been filling my bookshelf and have been feeling very unsatisfied. I'm glad I came across your pic and the answer to the question of where you got your bins. A dollar isn't bad!!!
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