Classroom -- BEFORE!

I finally got to go into my classroom today!! I drove out to school with my car full of fun classroom stuff ready to be used! Time seemed to fly when I was in there, rearranging, cleaning, organizing, and more rearranging. But, I figured it would be fun to show the progress of where my classroom was to where it will be!!

Here is the view when you first walk in from the front door.

This will be my reading corner/ library!

Looking at the front door! Someone already made the tree so I can just keep it =)

The side wall, love the window and light!

And one last view, trying to get the full classroom!

It was a long day, but I made TONS of progress, and can't wait to share what it looks like at the end of the week!

How to make a Class Rules poster

I get to move into my classroom on Monday! I thought I would be taking over my cooperating teacher from student teaching's room, but recently found out I would be moving into a portable! That means lots of wall space, great storage, and a clean slate to decorate!

I have decided to make a lot of my own posters to save some money. Today I am sharing how I made a Class Rules chart with only materials from the Dollar Tree. Let's just say that store has AWESOME teaching materials!!

I started off with just half a sheet of white poster board.

Dollar Tree sells borders as well -- tons of designs, curved and straight lined ones. I chose a neutral ABC and 123 border to outline my rules. They also have lots of borders with shapes, patterns and words. 

Then I measured out the borders to perfectly outline the border of my white poster board and glued them down to create this...

It is a little skinny, but works for just a few rules. If you have many long rules, I would advise not cutting the poster board in half. Then I chose how I wanted to decorate my rules and where to place them and started writing in permanent marker. I will probably laminate my board once I get to the school because I know I will be using for years after this. Here is the finished product!

I hope you found this helpful! Once again, everything was found at the dollar store, and I didn't even use all of the borders or poster board, so I have leftovers! All in all, this project came out to be about $1.00! 

What are you creating for your classroom?