I have been working in my classroom for hours getting it ready for school to start! I decided to do a jungle theme this year and I love how it turned out! I have animals for the team names and I kept all the backgrounds for the bulletin boards black with animal prints for the borders.
I had to go over today to file some papers that were copied at the print shop. I had 5 huge boxes of stuff to sort though and separate for the other 4th grade teachers. My great girls came and helped me split each stack of 100 pages into three classes. Thanks for the help girls!!

front door area

side of room with small group area. All those colored papers are the things I have to teach the 4th graders!!

front of room and my desk

front of room and at the back, the carpet area for stories etc. 4th graders are NOT too old to sit on the floor!

desks and door to the outside. Curtains I made over the summer.

backpack area and curtains.

A board I made for lunch choice. Kids get their name on a magnet and place it on the board on the choice they want for lunch that day.

Me- filing all those papers!!

Allison counting all those papers. She worked for hours and LOVED it. She wanted to bring some home! Maybe she'll be a teacher one day.

And Kenzie was a good helper too.

And the funniest pic ever. Em and Rachel were playing with the document camera and you can "freeze" the pose. So they were trying sad faces and Emily can cry on command. How cool is that?!?