Cacti All Around!

As promised, here are some more pictures of my classroom during it's transformation. It was a crazy week getting prepared to show the room for "Meet the Teacher Night," but after moving desks up three floors, taking five tables and a teachers desk out of the room, and sifting through all the 2nd grade materials from last year, it finally got done!

I'm so happy with the Southwest theme! It really is coming together, and even those who doubted the "cactus" idea are liking it :)  Below are some pictures of the classroom:

Wall left of the door! Bulletin boards for tracking reading, class theme and goals, "Reading Takes Us Places!" Wall, bookshelves.

Wall opposite the door! Bookshelves with classroom library.

"Carpet" area for whole-group instruction. Easel, CAFE board, and Word Wall!

Close-up of the "carpet" area in our room! Thanks to all the generous donations on DonorsChoose.org, I will soon have a beautiful carpet with 30 squares for my kids to sit on :) Thank you!