Classroom Layout Ideas

Who loves baseball?  It is not my favorite sport but I watch from time to time.  

A big word in baseball is Curve Ball.  Of course this is also a word used often at my school. 

So at the beginning of this week I had my classroom layout designed and ready to go.  Went in yesterday and starting moving furniture.  

Today when I went in I discussed a few ideas with the Administrator and it lead to me getting a classroom that is DOUBLE in size of what I was planning.  YIPEE!  I am excited that my kids will have more space.  Now first question is what would you put in your room if you had a lot of space but not a lot of money to buy new things?  (All ideas are great!)

Here are a few areas that I want to have: 

Reading area with my carpet 

2 small group areas for teacher led work: One with my kidney table another with 2 rectangle tables

Listening center area

Daily 5 set up (Book is coming Monday so I can prepare that) 

Math Manipulative area

32+ desks 

So far I have part of the room decorated although one of my boards will be covered in the expansion of my room.  My boards will all be teal with yellow trim.  My room is going to have a main color of a teal blue with green and yellow accents.  

This wall will be slid out of the way to open up for a larger room. 

As of right now I am thinking this will be my desk arraignment.  They may change now that I have more space for the students to work.  I like to change my desks every 6 weeks! 

This corner will be a small group area!  I plan to put my kidney table there.  The bulletin board has my main color scheme!  

Any ideas or opinions are greatly appreciated!