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! 

Willy Wonka Writers Eye Posters

Here is the latest posters for the Willy Wonka themed room. They have a candy background. I have printed and laminated them!

My Candy Alphabet!

I have been working hard trying to finish up my candy alphabet for my Willy Wonka themed room this year. Our school wide theme is "ticket to success" so the second grade settled on a Willy Wonka theme. I have high hopes! We have added two additional second grade teachers to our team this year making a total of six!! Last year I purchased two hanging lines for my room that come with colored plastic clothes pins (which I will be replacing with wooden painted ones). This past school year I hung some student work on the line but most went into the hallway. This year I came up with the idea of hanging a alphabet across the room to add a 3 dimensional effect. I created the alphabet using adobe photoshop and used photos of Willy Wonka candy in the background of the letters. It was a task. I printed two copies so that the alphabet could be seen from either side, then I laminated and trimmed. I will pin them to the line stretched across the room. I feel confident it will look awesome and everyone will be able to see it from any seat in the room. Each letter has a separate file so I can't post all the letters. Here they are!!

Bb has a background of Dots Candy

Cc has a background of Nerds Candy

Dd has a background of Pixie Stix Candy

Ee has a background of Laffy Taffy

 Gg has a background of Gummie Bears Candy

Wonka Crazy!

I am starting to get everything together for the new school year which starts for my district in about four weeks. I have begun this week getting a little Wonka crazy! I have created a "candy alphabet" to add to my candy expectations. I won't be able to take pics until I get in the room in about three weeks and I will share. I am making a list of Wonka ideas for the room which so far include: Golden ticket desk nameplates, Wonka's wonderful word tree with Wonka vocabulary gobbstoppers, Wonka Daily Five (Wonka read to self, Read to a Wonka partner, Wonka listen to reading, work on Wonka words and work on Wonka writing), Wonka's wonderful word journal label, Wonka mad science journals labels, Wonka's magic math journal labels, Wonka candy reading center and the Wonka class library, Wonka's daily wonky folder (behavior and homework), Wonka candy crates to sit on in the candy reading center, Wonka's writers eye posters and so much more!! I will post as I complete for anyone who may stumble across this site searching for Wonka theme ideas. I could not find any for classrooms but I found lots of birthday party stuff to give me ideas!

Wonka's Golden Ticket! Perfect for various uses in the classroom!

I am not sure what I am going to use this for just yet. I made it editable so that students names could be put in. These tickets could become part of a behavior reward system or just to put on the door with the students names on them! One other use I thought of was nameplates for their desks!!! ( I like this one the best)

My first Willy Wonka creation! Great Expectations Eight Principles Posters!

I am in full swing with creating things for my new room theme! I have created the great expectations eight principles posters! They are so awesome, or I think so! They are designed to print out on regular 8 1/2 x 11 paper, then just cut and laminate!!! Enjoy this freebie!!

More to come!!!

Links to docs for printing