My Counseling Room- 2013-14

I posted a sneak peek here earlier this summer.  Well, this morning I made a video tour of the room and completely forgot to ask Colton (my husband) to take photos.  These are camera photos and they will have to do.  I am so happy with how everything turned out.  I reposted the before pics so you won't have to go back and forth.  

View looking right from the front door:

Before

After (large group area)

Directly to the left of the door (remember, it was a science lab):

Before

After (still need to add more to the doors & make the counter pretty)

Just past the sinks...

Before (All of the science stuff blocking everything)

After: Play therapy area & sand tray

Directly against the back wall 

Before (I wish I would have got a picture of the whole wall, but the bookcase was surrounded by 3 metal cabinets..

After (no more metal cabinets!!)

Front Wall

Before

After: Character words along top border

 More photos:

Another view from front door

Close-up of bean bag area (grey canvas bag is full of stuffed animals)

Large group area & supplies

LOVE my supply area!

Sorry for the bad quality photos.  It doesn't do the room justice.  I am so excited about the progress I've made in it.  I have several more bulletin boards to finish, but this is what it will look like Monday morning!  Throughout the years, it will just get better and better.  

Book dividers

My room & office are coming together.  I still have so much to do, but I am hoping I can get most of it done while I am on campus the next two days.

Hopefully I will have some more pictures and things for you this weekend, but I wanted to give a quick update.  I have quite a few books and I wanted to create dividers so I could easily access them for lessons and/or teachers.  I printed these front and back, cut and laminated them.  I am really excited with how they look.  Best part, they match my labels for my storage bins!

What do you use for your book dividers?  Did you make something?  Do you use buckets?  I would love to see/hear about it.

Confidentiality Freebie

Well, if you can't already tell, I am loving mint green chevron.  It is all over my room!  I created this confidentiality poster to hang in my room & I'm sharing it with you.

Confidentiality

Chevron background from The Darling Blog.  Fonts used My First Crush (dafont) & Tangerine.

Classroom/Office Update

It has been a few days since I've posed because I have been getting everything ready for the beginning of the year.  I cannot believe it is already so close.  My contract is signed, keys are in my hand, and my room is coming together!  I wanted to share several updates with you.  You can see before pictures here.

I have my where is Mrs. Bradshaw sign and spinner posted by my door.  Click here to see how I made it.  

I created my very own BE yourself collage.  Thank you Susan at Entirely Elementary!  This little collage is everywhere in the school counseling world, and now I have one at my school. 

My referral notepads came in today and I could not be more excited!! They turned out wonderful! Click here to see more about them.

I covered up the collages (most of them) with fabric and added my border (Can you tell my theme & colors yet?).  I found several cute posters I added too.  Not sure what I am going to do with the bulletin board, but I love the colors. :)

I ordered several more Julia Cook books and bought Max (I believe I read about this on ASCA Scene) and a little liquid timer.  

Stay tuned for more lessons & some freebies.