I hope this shows up. I will never forget how my second grade teacher had her room decorated, never seen anything like it before. I want to have one of those classrooms that you go wow. She didn't have the bee hive thing, but just all this different colorful stuff, things hanging from the ceiling, a flourescent home made puppet theater, and so on. I still remember the impression it made on me as a child. Anyway, I saw this idea on the internet, thought I'd share it, isn't that neat? It's supposed to be like a little reading area/literacy center for the students. I like some of the other decorations shown in the picture too. Doesn't the whole scene look just warm and inviting? That's bound to inspire some young minds
Yes, it's very cute! In my class, however, even if I have "good" kids, I always like to be able to quickly scan my room to see where everyone is and what they are doing. I don't set up little hidden nooks, sweet and cozy though they are, that impair my view of students. Just my own quirky obsession, I guess.
Yeah, I could definitely see trouble ensuing, in one of those things, lol. I still love the imagination and creativity of it. Kids like that kind of thing, little spaces they can hide away in.
Ditto. I teach with a workshop approach and while I'd like to say that everyone is engaged in the work of reading, such a nook would invite 'non-readerly' behavior. Pretty though. Pretty isn't always practical, unfortunately...
It's very cute! I love it. Too bad my room is so small. It makes it very hard to do cute and inventive things like that.
In my previous room I liked to decorate the whole room with a theme, from the ceiling on down. Now I am in a portable that is much smaller and I have twice as many students, so we don't have the room to decorate very much. My older students remember the decorations in their former room and ask if we can do it again. I think I'm going to try to figure out how to do the "whole room" decoration thing again next year, just on a much smaller basis.
When it comes to display, my ideas tend to get bigger than Ben Hur! Our theme has been "Nursery Rhymes and Fairytales", so the chldren made a giant from boxes. He's as tall as the ceiling. To get him to stand up I used garden twine to tie him to a support pole in the middle of the room and used fishing line to lift one knee so he looked as though he were climbing. I covered the pole with paper, painted it green, used pop socks stuffed with paper, painted green to represent the breanstalk and children's handprints for leaves. So what did he look like when I stood back to admire - a pole dancing giant!!!
yes...and it uses lot of valuable space. I am all for creating an inviting space, but be careful about using space wisely. It is cute, but I'm not sure it's a good use of space.
I did a spring break camp at a different school than the one I work at. I stumbled upon this second grade teacher who had his room open for tutoring and just HAD to take a photo. He created a huge paper mache tree in the middle of the room. He said he did it every year as a beginning of school project. I think it's ridiculous and awesome.
Wow, is all I can say! lol. Okay, not to be raining on his parade, but it seems as if it is obstructing the view of the students from one another? And is it serving any kind of purpose whatsoever aside from the wow factor? lol Oh well, hey whatever works for that teacher! I like seeing things like this, I like to find really interesting and creative ideas in a classroom online that other teachers have done.
Is there a thread on this site where people have posted pictures of their really neat and creative, classroom decor ideas? I'd love to see pictures of some of the things you all have described as doing in your classroom.
WOW! I like it and I think I'll use it for my jungle set up for the summer, except it would be @ a corner. All I need now are an Ocean one, Arctic one and a Space one. Can anyone post some of the above theme ones? Thanks, Rebel1
I'm totally inspired...and yet envious all at the same time. I so do not have the room our ounce of patience/talent for something like this. Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Where did you find these pictures? I love looking at classroom pics, so if you could share the website that would be great! I know there is a LONG thread with classroom pictures, but I don't think I have ever seen one devoted to the most outrageous classrooms. Go start it, if you want!
Well, I'm not really thinking outrageous, lol, I'm just thinking of really neat and inspiring. I wish I had a picture to show on here of what my second grade class looked like. It was so neat. She had all these rainbow honeycomb fiesta thingys hanging from the ceiling, as well as bright colored metallic type decorations, a lot of fluorescent colors and that puppet theater. It made you excited to be in the classroom.
Just curious - what does a rainbow mean today in your area, cali*teacher? (Perhaps I live a sheltered life, but I cannot get any negative connotation to come to mind...)
No comment, not gonna get into that soup, lol. I'll put stuff up like that anyway, hallelujah anyhow! The website this picture was from, www.mrsmcdowell.com/Literacy Boxes/boxes.htm
Honestly, I know he elaborated, but I can't remember! The room was fricken huge though, so I imagine the class just moved if they needed to all see each other. The school was a new building designed with all kinds of space. I was so jellluzzzzz!
I have a few classroom pictures....nothing over the top....yet keeps my room welcoming.... www.chavarriascinema.wikispaces.com Click on the classroom snapshots and that was my classroom this year.... also on the link for my classroom website I have pictures from past classrooms. Not too many pictures...but a handful.
I was browsing the forum Classroom Photos and I saw some pictures of a classroom tree. I think someone name TeachMe2Read had some really neat classroom pictures with her tree in her room, loved it. A lot of times the pictures would not be there on the link, but the pictures I did of some of the rooms were really neat to see.
Yes, yes, again very cute, and I WOULD be able to see into it. I've got to tip my hat to all you teachers with time and energy to decorate your rooms so invitingly. You really make your classrooms magical places in which to learn. I'm afraid, as far as classroom decor is concerned, all I have time for is to make my classroom organized, clean, and filled with resources for academic and creative thinking. The rest of my time is spent on unit and lesson planning, and creation of learning materials. No disrespect intended to anyone.
Rebel1 A teacher who did an Artic theme made an igloo in her classroom using used (but clean) 3litre milk cartons (in Australia they are opaque plastic). It looked really good.
