My Finished Classroom (Finally!!)

Happy Saturday, everyone!  I am so excited to share my finished classroom with you!  It was mostly finished about a week ago, but I still had a few things to get just right, so I waited to share until today. 

Here's how it looked when I got started:

 

And here's how it looks now (the view from the back door):

And from the opposite corner:

Here's how the front wall ended up:

Here's a close-up of what's on the right side of the board:

And here's where I write our objectives and tasks for the day (on the left side of the board):

I cut these titles out with my silhouette.  I used KG Always a Good Time font by Kimberly Geswein Fonts)

Here is the inside of my "front"door:

I just love these posters!  I purchased these posters from SpanishPlans on TPT and changed the font.  My students love these posters!

In the back corner, next to the "front" door, I have the flags displayed, and our mascot, the blue iguana, frequently hangs out on the flagpole (although sometimes he spends class with a student).  My high schoolers love our iguana and I have various students that will beg to hold the iguana for the class period.

Finally, on my desk I have my lesson planner/calendar.  I used a small binder and it has my calendar first, followed by my lesson plans.

Whew!  What do you think?  I am so ready to welcome my students on Monday morning!  

Optimum Organization - How I organize my digital files and unit plans

Good afternoon everyone!  I'm linking up today with Fun in Room 4B and  Ladybug's Teacher Files for their Optimum Organization Linky.

I'm excited to share how I organize all of my digital files into my unit plans.  I found this post on the Creative Language Classroom's blog (check them out if you haven't already) a while back and I loved the idea (you can download their lesson planning template by clicking the link to their store at the end of their post).  I adapted their categories for my own classroom and ended up with this:

I love the way the standards are phrased in a more accessible way for students, and that it gives a concrete way to organize all of my resources.

The way I've been planning lately is by putting the plan into PowerPoint, typing in all of the resources I have, and then pasting them into the PowerPoint.  If it's something that's multiple pages long, I will add a link to the file in my PowerPoint so that when I access the file at school, it has all of the files I need for that unit attached to the PowerPoint (this does make for a really large file, though).

Here's part of my plan for greetings:

I love that I'm able to include all of the pictures I've found via pinterest, youtube videos, powerpoints, etc in one spot.  I usually print out each unit plan at school and put it into my lesson binder so everything is at my fingertips.  

How do you organize all of your digital resources?