I've never tried to attach a picture to my posts, but I thought I'd try it. I got my room ready!!!!!!!! We start with kids on Monday, so I'm pretty excited about it. Here are some pics you can click on. In order they're the front door, word wall ("Wild about Words"), library corner (with vines hanging), morning math board, and the cubbies.
It looks great, thanks for posting the pics! I really like the door. Our doors open "out" and are open most of the time, so it's hard to decorate our doors.
I like the vines in the reading corner, also. I'm still trying to find the little monkeys with hands/feet that velcro together. I'm going to put those on the ends of "vines" to hang around my reading corner. It may not get done before Monday night Orientation though! Oh well...it's a work in progress!
Today we had new hire orientation and it was great. A lot of information overload, and lots of it boring, but I LOVE where I am!! I'm pretty wound up tonight.
on a job well done! You're room looks awesome! I would love to be a kid learning in that room. Just one question...how did you attach your pics to your post?
Thanks to all the nice compliments! You gals/guys? are wonderful.
To answer some of you:
mab - the vines are made of bulletin board paper - just twisted together. 2 of my kids helped me with those. It's really not a huge room either - so it's funny it looks that way.
Sciencegeek - I attached them just like when you do any other attachment. I didn't realize it would give the thumbnail prints until I posted it. I have the pictures on a floppy disk, so when I went to attach them, I went into my floppy and uploaded them that way. Worked easily!
Jalon - I never could find the monkeys with the velcro, so I just settled for the tablet picture of monkeys. In fact, I had to do that with several things - it was getting too hard to do everything I wanted to - so I compromised and did what I could - making changes as the need arised.
Your room looks awesome! I am doing the Jungle in my room too! I have some really good bulletin boards. The librarian at our city library gave me some Jungle wallpaper and it made great bulletin boards. Your students will love your room!
Hey, SusanTeach!
Your room looks great!!! It is funny how photos of classrooms make them look massive. The camera angle I guess.
I am doing a jungle theme this year, too. In fact the ten 4th-grade teachers in my building are doing jungle themes. It's interesting to see how some teachers have gone crazy with the theme (crazy in a good way!) and others (like me ) are pretty low-key. My room is looking very nice, it's just that some of the rooms have vines strung across the ceiling and back again. The vines are decorated here and there with leaves, moss, stuffed snakes coiled around the vines, and We all have that tree you have on your word wall. I haven't put the tree up yet -- haven't found just the right spot.
Anyway, your room looks terrific! I bet you can't wait for your students to see it!
It looks fantastic! I wish we could decorate our doors because yours looks awesome... but we just got a fresh coat of paint and our principal threatened to hang us up by our thumbs if we put any tape or adhesive on her paint job she fought so hard for! Anyhow thanks for sharing!
Your classroom looks great. I wish we had nice rooms like yours in our school. Our rooms are so small and old, it makes it difficult to look like yours.
Super job! Your kids are going to love being in your room.
My jungle room is low key as well. :-) I just can't go all out with "one thing" because I'm not a good decorator. I do just enough to make it low key and look nice. I wish I had the nerve, money, ability,creativity,
etc. to just go full blown with a theme, but don't. Oh well!
The new teacher next to me (I'm new too) is a theme-freak (in a good way) and has a beach/paradise theme, but plans to change it in about two weeks!! She's going on maternity leave very soon after school starts and wants to have up the fall theme by the time she leaves. Holy cow. To me it sounds like hers will change about 4 times a year!
I'm going to put some final touches on my room Sunday afternoon and call it good for the week. We have Intermediate School Orientation on Monday night, so the kids/parents will be in the room, then 3 days of meetings and kids start back on Thursday, so I won't have a lot of time to add much more.
You are so clever! How long did it take you to get your room ready in total? Like another previous poster, I'm envious of how new, clean, and light your room is. Is your building relatively new? (Mine was built in the 1950's.) Your students will be so excited to walk in on the first day!
Kat'smom - my school is fairly new - it's 7 years old. The first year I taught was in an old school, and I never could get it to look "clean" or smell right . It's nice to be in a new school. It took me about a week to get my room ready. That's counting the time making copies of materials, move furniture, etc... The door, bulletin boards, etc... didn't really take that long - maybe 2 days if I worked non-stop. There's really nothing elaborate to what I did - a lot of hotglue and bulletin board paper.
Jalon and J.Elaine - The teacher next to me decided to go low-key this year. She said she didn't want to start off with TOO much for them to read and get distracted by. I knew if I didn't do it now, it probably wouldn't get done - I tend to leave things on the wall all year. I don't like taking the time to add to it throughout the year (except maybe a little). I had vines going across my ceiling a few years ago, but decided to let them hang down this time - much less time and I think it looks better! Let's hope the kids don't knock them down!
StrawberryK5 - I've had a jungle theme before (when I taught 5th grade), but it's been a few years. I decided to go back to it since we study Africa in 3rd grade. I hope to stick with it a while!
Nice Job. You seem very dedicated to your kids to be that creative. A question...how long have you been teaching? How did you make the vines? Do have any bb's that change throughout the year? Do you still keep the theme when you switch up the boards? I am thinking of a theme and this seems cool. So you teach about teh jungle or is the theme just for fun?
This will be my 7th year of teaching, so I'm still a rookie in many aspects. That's why I love this board so much - I get so many great ideas from it.
I made the vines out of bulletin board paper - I just twisted them! Then I draped some plastic green vines around them (I had those from VBS one year).
I only change my hallway bulletin board during the school year. I MIGHT change my postcard one if we get tired of looking at it (I don't think I showed a picture of that one - but there are no postcards on it yet!), but last year the kids loved having it up all year. They kept looking at the postcards several times. So, yes, I still keep the same theme all year because my room boards don't change.
We teach Africa in 3rd grade, so we actually "teach" the jungle part of the year. That's partly how I came up with the theme (besides the fact that it was easy to find items for it!).
I borrowed those from another teacher. If I think about it, I'll ask her Monday (when I go to work on my room for this year!) where she got them. I like them because they're 3-D. I have them up already for this year!
I teach second grade and I am also doing a jungle/safari theme this year. I have been getting many ideas from the web. You also have some very cute ones. The kids are going to love it!
08-11-2006, 04:13 PM
) are pretty low-key. My room is looking very nice, it's just that some of the rooms have vines strung across the ceiling and back again. The vines are decorated here and there with leaves, moss, stuffed snakes coiled around the vines, and We all have that tree you have on your word wall. I haven't put the tree up yet -- haven't found just the right spot. 
Anyhow thanks for sharing! 
. It's nice to be in a new school. It took me about a week to get my room ready. That's counting the time making copies of materials, move furniture, etc... The door, bulletin boards, etc... didn't really take that long - maybe 2 days if I worked non-stop. There's really nothing elaborate to what I did - a lot of hotglue and bulletin board paper. 
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