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Classroom Ideas:

5. Closet
**Floor Space:** a safe, clean, comfortable and attractive classroom can stimulate learning and help build a classroom community. Your floor plan will also depend on the grade you are teaching. For the lower grades, your classroom setup may include many different learning areas, such as a reading area, an art center and a technology center. The placement of these areas will depend upon the layout of your classroom. However, when setting up these areas, you will want to keep the following points in mind:
 * Room dividers should be low so that all areas are visible to you.
 * Areas that invite group work should not be next to quiet areas where students read or study independently.
 * Art or other messy areas are best located near a sink.
 * You should always be able to make eye contact with all students.



Wall Space:
 * ===We show our students what we value by what we display in the classroom.===
 * ===Every item on the walls should have one primary purpose===
 * ===A //word wall// should be as uncluttered and easy to read as possible.===
 * ===Murals, pages for big books, and other large items that students help write during community writing should be displayed in the classroom whenever===

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Shelves/Cubbies:



== A finished work bin where the students flip the clothespin around to a smiley face so you can tell who has yet to turn in. ==


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