Class Library All Set!

The classroom setup is going amazingly well. Setting up a sixth grade classroom is so different from setting up a first grade classroom. I focused on making it so cutesy as a first grade teacher. For sixth grade, I'm working on making the space comfortable and visually pleasing. I can use posters with words!! I have not hung anything on the walls and have not taken down last year's paper and border yet. I plan to work on that a little bit today and tomorrow. On Friday, my sister is going to help me hang my bulletin boards. I have a classroom assistant this year. It has been years since I have had the pleasure of a helper in my room. I'm excited. I met her yesterday and she came in to help me set up. She did my library! I have been so blessed this year. One of the sixth grade teachers took the Tech Coach position for the district and let me borrow her classroom library. Here it is all set up!

She did an amazing job and I cannot believe that she managed to do it in a couple of hours. She saved me a huge headache. She set up series books in the top row and then organized by lexile levels for the rest of the books. All I need to do now is label the containers and shelves for the kids to be able to find what they are looking for!

On the tech side of things, I am trying out an app on my phone called Level It Books. It has the option to create a library and use it as a checkout system. The only problem I have found so far is that it does not allow for multiple copies of the same book. There is also a website linked to it. I have not looked into the website as much as the app. Within the app there are options to add your class roster, a wishlist, and to search for book reading levels. It has the capability to store gle, lexile, gr, and dra levels.

Over the next few days, I will continue setting up my room. School starts on August 25th for students. We have Curiosity day on August 21st so I will have to be set up by then! I'm looking forward to sharing my progress over the next week!