Willy Wonka Classroom!

This was a real work in progress. I have a few tweaks to still finish but here is what I have done so far!

I ran a clothes line alphabet strip across the room for a 3-D effect. 

My CAFE and Daily 5 wall and part of my reading area. 

My door! Can you see my door? 

A shot of my window and my candy word wall tree! Are those gobbstoppers on that tree? (that's what they are supposed to be)

Here is more of my reading center. Notice my reading boxes for use during Read to Self, and Buddy Reading! I got those on amazon. I keep buckets of special books that are rich in color and vocabulary etc. Books like I Need My Monster, The Monstore and more. 

My listen to reading center from Daily 5 is in the middle of my two carpet areas. I have a bucket of CD books and books on tape. I am still gathering some chairs and setting up the equipment. 

I LOVE these! They were so easy and affordable to make. The crates are 3.47 at Wal-Mart. I bought 1 yard of pink satin material at Hobby Lobby for 4.99. I used old regular pillows and cut in half for the stuffing, they fit perfectly on top of the crates I hot glued the seams of the pillows. For the candy labels I printed off google images of candy boxes and laminated them. Then I backed them with construction paper for border. Thats it! GREAT seating! The kids LOVE them too!

My white board on this wall is unusable and waiting to be replaced at fall break. In the mean time it became the pocket chart wall! 

I am still finishing up my little corner!

I added Welcome Oompas Loompas and little men outside the door! I didn't take another photo yet, but I added twirly pops in between the oompas! I am adding a sign with all the kids names on the other side! 

That is most of the room. I have a few things I am tweaking. I finished adding border to two of my bulletin boards today for Wonka Writing and Reading Land! Enjoy! I hope you like my ideas and they foster some ideas for you too!