Classroom Decorations- Jungle

It's almost school time and I started decorating the classroom.  I am having a lot of fun this year with the monkey/jungle theme.  Here are some of the things that I have already started (not finished).  A great friend and co-worker of mine helped with the tree :)  Most of these are pinterest inspired!

I decided to use the caddy's again, even though it's third grade! Each caddy has a space for 5 glue sticks, 2 packs of crayons, a pack of colored pencils, and a pack of markers for each table to share in case someone doesn't have those supplies!  I am very crafty in my room so they definitely need it.

 This is my math cabinet.  I have everything organized using tops from the cardboard boxes and labeled with what the subject is for math.  I keep all my games and manipulatives in there.  These are some charts that I made last year for my class.

 I love having a student of the month and felt this really made it POP with the theme.

 Last year we had a French concert, because my students learned French from an awesome parent that I had, and my husband had to make an elephant.  He made that from paint and puffy poster board :) AWESOME!  I hung that up next to the mailboxes for giving work back.  I also have above the mailboxes, an excellent work area.  If a student does phenomenal work it gets hung here for everyone to grab ideas of what I am looking for off of :)

 This is my reading tree.  It is not complete yet, but I thought it would add to the wonderful Jungle theme I have going in my room.  Plus it looks cool hanging over the computers.

 This is my word work and small group seating area where I work individually with either groups or just a student at a time.

 If you look closely over on the right group of desks there is a small box in the middle.  That is my Word Wall.  I decided not to take up cabinet space and instead do a filing card system.  I have one for each side of the room.  The students asks how to spell it, I tell them, and then one student writes it on a blank index card and files it in this container.  First time doing this so we will see how it goes :)  Teaches alphabetical order too.

 I used these pockets for my math centers.  Just glued magnets to the back of them, and laminated the monkey cards inside.  I will write the names of the kids in each group on the cards and just switch them out according to what they are doing.  I laminated the cards so that I could change names as we go if need be.

 I used the basket as a place to store reading cubes and balls.

 This is my CAFE board.  I used the monkey pockets once again as a way to store cafe cards so all I have to do is grab what I am looking for and post :)

 Here is a better picture of the monkey holders and cards.

 This is my AR wall.  Every time the students test on a book they will put a sticker on their chart.  There is a girls side and boys side.  I am still working on the this one :)

I had to add this one! I have such a supportive husband.  It is not easy putting in the countless hours it takes to prepare for school.  I went to a math convention and came home to this beautiful basket of welcome home school stuff that he KNEW I needed for work the following day!  What a great man!