Today was a glorious day! I went into my classroom to begin some setup. I LOVE setting up a classroom. So much potential. So many exciting things a person can do. It was only the custodian's second day back to work, so no cleaning has occurred in my room yet. But, I was feeling some anxiety due to our upcoming vacation. Huh? Anxiety and vacation shouldn't be in the same sentence, right. Well, when you plan a trip for the end of August and come back a week before school starts, and your room is mostly all in boxes, I think you are allowed to be anxious. So, to set my mind at ease, I went in and did a bunch of things today with a teacher friend. (Wait for some upcoming posts on her room setup too!) The custodian at my new school is a lovely, cheerful man, who had no problems with us being there, which was great. We got to work on a lot of the little details.
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Before shot of my room. |
Above is my room before I've done anything to it. Well, not true. I'd removed a lot of the junk from the room, but nothing of my own is in here yet. Note the teeny windows and yellow wall.
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I think I've posted this photo before...... |
I mentioned
in this blog post how much I hate the open shelving for my teacher resources. It's enough to make a person go spend $300 on all new matching binders. To remedy that in a less expensive way, I purchased some beautiful fabric and made a curtain. Today we hung it up. I LOVE it! However, I made have made a slight measurement error as it touches the floor. It doesn't drag, but it touches. I'm worried it will get dirty. So I may bring it home again and bring it up half an inch or so. It looks a little sparse in the photo below, but I know once I get my desk and things all setup it will be great! I'm really loving the black touches in my room this year. I think it helps to anchor everything.
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All hung up! No more mismatched binders to stare at. |
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Loving this! |
As I mentioned in my last blog post about classroom plans, I wanted to put "Today is" vinyl on my whiteboard. I decided to go with "Today's date is..." We're having a debate about the "..." I say they are fine. My friend says they are crooked. It's always nice having a friend who is slightly more anal than you are. Love you Crystal! ;)
This was a last minute idea. Last night I spent a few hours creating and cutting this out of vinyl as well. I love how well it fits the door; I was really cutting it close. I guess it pays to measure first, but when you decide to do it the night before you have to guess. I decided to do it on the inside of my door as it will spend more time open than closed. I also like to hang holiday themed wreaths on the outside. I'm so happy I was able to find the font
Dr. Soos for free to cut this out in. A Dr. Seuss quote just has to be in this font, don't you think?
We ran into a slight hiccup with my word wall fabric. My old classroom had a different sized bulletin board. My new room has a size smaller and a size bigger. We fixed the problem by tripling up the borders. I think it makes such a great statement! I'm so happy we were able to get this up there. It sure took me a while to cut and sew 26 rainbow pieces of fabric. There is a space on either end that is blank still. When we go back to paper the boards I'll take a picture to show you what we did to fix that up.
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It's more gorgeous than before! |
I'll finish this post with a photo of some crazy laminating. Crystal and I both had a ton of math stations created this summer. Today we laminated our things. Here's myself and her daughter holding up a portion of her laminating. Took me 3 hours to cut mine out tonight. Yikes!
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That's only part of it. |
Can't wait to share more of our classroom decorating. Both my room, and hers!
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