Decor and Organization

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What a week this has been. School started on Tuesday. My students came in all excited about telling me everything they did over break. The first day was pretty good. I feel like the general thought was, "School, I remember this. I think it was pretty neat. I can see my friends." The second and third day I believe the general thought was "School....I remember this....I can't do whatever I want to do any more like I did over break..." But by Friday we were pretty much back in the swing of the things.

Today, despite it being a Saturday, I went up to my classroom to get some work done. And, goodness me, did I get some work done! I took down and put up three new wall displays along with finishing up my binder organization to replace the yucky file folders I had. Here are some pictures:

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Display: Inspired by a posting on Pinterest (which lead me to a blog - her display is much cuter so I recommend you checking it out) I decided to create an "I have a dream" wall where my students wrote what their dreams were. I took their pictures holding a white board with a sign that said what they wanted to be when they grew up. I have future doctors, spies, computer engineers, dancers, singers, vets, nurses, firemen, pizza men, mailmen, archery coaches, and policemen in my class! Here is a picture of what the display looks like. I will add more to it as we continue our discussion on Dr. King.

2. We are studying magnets in science right now so I put up a display for magnets. We will add more to it as we continue talking about them but here is the beginnings of it now:

3. We are also learning how to write descriptive paragraphs. We started brainstorming last week and will write our rough drafts this week. I plan to display their final products next to this display on our cabinets:

4. I discovered that I really don't like file folders for organizing papers. And so, I have created a binder for each subject nicely divided up how I need it divided. This has taken me quite a while to accomplish as I kept working on it a little bit at a time but it is all done now, except for my math binder. Here are my wonderfully organized binders! I'm thrilled to have this organization in my life now:

I also put another wall display earlier this week. My students have memorized all of Psalm 19. As a culminating activity for it I asked them to illustrated Psalm 19:1. This was the result:

I left up the Christmas lights because I like them. Plus when they are plugged in they act like stars in the sky above our sky illustrations.

It has been a busy week but I am glad that things got done! Still have papers to grade this weekend but for now time to relax and watch a movie on my comfy couch. Have a good weekend, y'all!