Floor Plan
Ms. Houchins designed the room in order to attract all student attention to the front of the room. The SMART board was in the center of the front of the classrooms and each desk was positioned in order to see the SMART board. She had three columns in the middle of the classroom facing directly towards the front of the classroom. On either side of these middle desks were columns of two or three desks that were slightly slanted to the right or the left in order to give a better angle toward the center SMART board and front of the classroom. The room had chalkboards on either side of the SMART board. The two side walls consisted of a white board where Ms. Houchins wrote down the agenda of the day in order to let students know what is happening in class that day on one side. The other side is where she puts the Essential Understandings of the day or of the unit. This gives the children a deeper idea of what exactly they will partake in learning on a specific day or over the span of a week. Toward the back of the classroom is Ms. Houchins desk as well as a few tables and cabinets for organization. The back wall consists of a cork board that is decorated with students artwork of a tessellations project that the students designed and colored themselves during class. I personally hung them up all over the back wall as well as on smaller cork boards that fill up the portion of side wall not covered by a white board. The classroom has material related posters hung in the spaces where there is nothing else on the wall. The room is positively decorated for a fun, safe and inviting environment to learn.