9 Days and Counting!

With 9 days left before I get into my classroom to start organizing before students return my mind has been reeling with ideas of what I loved doing last year and what things I don't think I will repeat. The following are some ideas that I either loved or liked.

I thought I would post some of the things I really enjoyed doing last year in my classroom. The first thing is my doors. For Halloween and Christmas I decorated the door to my classroom I will be doing it again but man was it a lot of work!

 The one thing that I might do differently are the snowflakes. I cut out each snowflake myself and hot glued them to the wall and door...THAT was rough! Both the noses stood out from the door, which was a little complicated and I had to keep fixing, never mind kids hitting them as they walked down the hall.

I also do these monthly family projects. I LOVED doing these, the first month I did it I didn't have a lot of success, I think because parents didn't completely know what to expect. But these are the ones for December and some parents and kids got VERY creative. I gave the parents 2-3 weeks to work on the projects at home. The project for December was that the Gingerbread Man was worried he was going to be eaten during the holidays so he needed the kids help to disguise himself so that he wouldn't be eaten. A cute little poem went along with the copy of the Gingerbread Man. The day that the Men were due the kids came up and presented their boy/girl.

While everyone did a great job, some went above and beyond. The second photo shows just how creative the family's got!

 

Finally, for Mother's Day the kids made these projects for their moms. It was not that hard, while I really liked it I might look for something different this year.

Just to make sure I give proper credit, the door ideas, although my own I got the ideas from a fellow teacher down the hall who got her idea from Pinterest. The Mother's Day idea also came from Pinterest, and the family projects came from a fellow teacher who taught next door to me!