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Snapshots of Movie Star
Work Display
This is our hall display where student work will be showcased throughout the year!
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Reading Center
This photo shows part of our reading center. Fiction books are sorted by genres and stored on the double-sided brown bookshelf. Non-fiction books are sorted by themes on the white bookshelf. The storage containers hold resources for our units of study for the year.
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Reading Center
This is another view of our reading center. A big thanks to Mr. Madden for making our reading center marquee! Genre and non-fiction text feature signs are displayed on the walls in our reading center.
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A Star is Born Birthday Display
Students' names and birthdays are recorded on the stars on this display. When it is a student's birthday, he gets to replace his/her star with a writing about the "gift" he/she brings to our classroomm. The birthday child completes this writing while his/her classmates are making a special birthday book for him/her!
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Word Wall & Literacy Centers
Our word wall is displayed at the back of our classroom and our cubbies hold our literacy centers.
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Celebrity of the Week Board
Our Celebrity of the Week board will showcase a "movie star" photo of our student of the week, a bio page, a certificate, and special family photos.
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Writing Stages and Genre Logs
The stages of the writing process are displayed on clapboards on our wall. We also track the genres of our read-aloud books throughout the year on the logs posted on our cabinets.
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Miss Krankowski's Desk
We are so lucky to have Miss Krankowski interning in our class this year. She will be student teaching
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First Bank of Hollywood
We use a checkbook management system and these are the classroom rules and corresponding fines that the students helped to create at the beginning of the year.
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Bucket Filling Display
Inspired by the book, Have You Filled A Bucket Today?, our class finds ways to fill each others' buckets on a daily basis!
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Poppin' Through Our Math Facts
Students will take timed math fact quizzes online this year to show their fact fluency. When all students have mastered a fact, our class will earn a popcorn party!
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Readers' Choice Awards
After each author/genre study our class will vote to give one book a golden award! That book will be displayed on our Readers' Choice board for others to see, and it will receive a gold award seal so future classes will know how much we loved that book!
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Teacher's Corner
Mrs. Madden's desk is hidden in this corner of the room. In front of her desk is the shelf where all of our textbooks, writer's notebooks, and data binders are stored!
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Madden's Movie Theater
This is our television, though it is rarely used, since we view ENN news and videos on our Promethean Board!
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Classroom Computers
We have two computers in our classroom which are often used for Accelerated Reader tests. Most of the time, we roll our hall's laptop cart into our classroom and use the laptops for our computer projects!
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More Classroom Photos Coming Soon!
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