Crafty Reading Corners

With no job, I am getting very antsy and designing and redesigning my fictional classroom in my mind (and now, my blog).  The thing I am most excited about is my reading corner.  I have been thinking about this for three years since my first day of student teaching.  I had this awesome supervisor who talked about her reading tent, cave, island with palm trees etc.  I am pretty crafty so I knew I had to do something of the sort one day.  I have been surfing the internet and I found some great ideas on this website: Rocking Kids.  This is one of my favorites:

I love the jungle theme, and here is a cute way to work in the daily 5:  

But here are a couple other adorable ideas:

(http://ideas4theclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/11/reading-corner.html)

(I hope I gave due credit on these)

 I am thinking I will have to be able to switch it up halfway through the year because I just love all of these.  I wish I could change the theme based on our units.  ( Some of you experienced teachers are probably rolling your eyes right about now, thinking "yeah right wishful thinking,"  but I guess those are the crazy delusions of a first year teacher).  I like to think I can pull this off, and I will surely try, but it will be interesting to see how it comes out... for now, all I can hope is a have a classroom to put this in next year!