Classroom setup

This year, I decided to try a different setup for my classroom, mainly to incorporate more use of the <limited> space I have.  Now, my classroom is tiny; I mean, REALLY tiny!  Last year I only had 9 students in my class, so the space wasn't a huge issue.  However, I'm projected to have about 13-14 students this year.  Now, while many of you think it's a blessing to have only that small of class, please take into consideration that I compensate with a small classroom.  Therefore, I tried to utilize the space I have the best I could.  

In the pictures, you can see that I have a (single) computer area, a reading area, and a listening area.  Unfortunately, I do not have space for writing area.  Therefore, I will be doing my own version of the Daily 5 for center time: I will assign students to different areas for about 15 minutes each day.  I have 6 areas, and they will go to one of those six: read to a partner, read to yourself, listen to reading, work on the computer, work on writing, or work on words.  I figured this method will best organize the lack of space and thus avoid any catastrophe in the process!  

With a small classroom comes limited wall space.  I didn't want to over-do it like I see in many classrooms; it often just leads to more distractions, especially with second grade students.  I left a limited amount of posters on the wall, with many of them being made by me!  (I'm not going to lie, I stole many of the ideas from other teachers who posted on Pinterest!)  I already had one student (who was touring the school) who complimented my room by saying it looks fun!  I would like to believe it's because I use a variety of colors in my room, and try not to limit to one "theme".  

Now, as you can see, I only have 3 student tables and 1 teacher table.  I hope that I will be able to get one more student table, so that I don't have to try to solve the issue of squeezing 13-14 students into 3 small tables; trust me, they are small!  What I plan to do as far as small group conferences go though is to have the students meet at my table.  What stinks though is that my table is "adult" friendly, not "student" friendly, especially with the small elementary chairs that they use.  

As I said, I'm trying to utilize what I have to the best of my abilities.  However, with limited resources and classroom space, it does not come as easy as it would seem.  Only one week until school begins...

~Jen