This is the start of the 3 full week of school and I haven't had a chance to sit down and write anything about anything these past few weeks. I wanted to share some of my classroom decorations, and ideas and some good finds, pinterest creations ect. It doesn't matter how long I've taught, it seems like the first few weeks of school is so crazy busy I don't have time to think.
Pinterest Projects
I LOVE Pinterest. I can't get on there too much because I want to make everything I find that is classroom related!! The canvas is something I made last school year, but the organizer and the ruler door decoration is from this year. The door decoration was pretty easy! I got all the items for the organizer at Hobby Lobby when metal items were 50% off!
Room/Door Decorations
I have a very large bulletion board in my classroom, so I divded it up into 3 parts. One I made a Challenge of the Week Area (which I haven't started yet, and I did away with early last year because no one was doing the problems), so I might change it up soon to something else. The middle one is "Think You Don't Need Math?" Quote. I saw this on Pinterest and I retyped up everything not once, but twice. I had to move rooms and I had no laminated my stuff so they fell apart coming off and I couldn't find where I had typed them up, so I redid it for the next year. The third space has a 10 commandments of math. It originally was called "The Fridge" but I barely put papers up there so I came up with something else. The person who created the poster was very nice to post it for free, but it was made to be poster size, and I'm too cheap to go have it printed as a poster, so I printed it at home and put it together with tape them had it laminated to last forever LOL!
My welcome sign on the inside of my door came from Math = Love, my favorite math blogger. She posted it last year and this is up from last year. I don't think I will ever change it, I love it that much, unless it gets yucky looking and I will reprint it on fresh colored paper.
My restroom pass QR code, I started that last year as well. When they scan it, it takes them to a form they will out and submit. It keeps track of the date and time they left and where they are going. I keep a list up for each class letting them know how many passes they have left out of the 4 I allow per nine weeks. It's the third week of school and I have 3 students already out of hall passes!!
My clock drives my students crazy until they learn the perfect squares. We do them early in the year with Pre-Algebra, and not until Christmas in Algebra. I saw it on a bloggers site or Pinterest at some point and I typed them up and laminated them so I can remove them easily for testing and changing rooms!
Last, are my wooden letters for the words on my wall. I scored those at Target's Dollar Spot this past July before school started. They were $3 bucks each! I wish they had had the word Math, but no, they only had Reading, so I opted to not get that one. I stuck them up with the 3M foam two sided tape that holds up to 9 lbs I think!
My welcome sign on the inside of my door came from Math = Love, my favorite math blogger. She posted it last year and this is up from last year. I don't think I will ever change it, I love it that much, unless it gets yucky looking and I will reprint it on fresh colored paper.
My restroom pass QR code, I started that last year as well. When they scan it, it takes them to a form they will out and submit. It keeps track of the date and time they left and where they are going. I keep a list up for each class letting them know how many passes they have left out of the 4 I allow per nine weeks. It's the third week of school and I have 3 students already out of hall passes!!
My clock drives my students crazy until they learn the perfect squares. We do them early in the year with Pre-Algebra, and not until Christmas in Algebra. I saw it on a bloggers site or Pinterest at some point and I typed them up and laminated them so I can remove them easily for testing and changing rooms!
Last, are my wooden letters for the words on my wall. I scored those at Target's Dollar Spot this past July before school started. They were $3 bucks each! I wish they had had the word Math, but no, they only had Reading, so I opted to not get that one. I stuck them up with the 3M foam two sided tape that holds up to 9 lbs I think!
Teacher Corner Decoration
I started compiling these cute math sayings and quotes about 5 or 6 years ago. I add a few new ones each year now since I have so many. My favorite one is says "I'll stop at nothing to avoid negative numbers." I just added that one this year. I like to spice them up a bit after printing them in color and I add a background card stock and then laminate them with my personal laminator!
Student Supply Center
I started this Student Supply Center last school year and it was great! Kept all the supplies we used for class all together and organized. The caddies usually have tape and scissors and sometimes glue sticks, depending on what we need for the day! I put on the supply list for each student to bring in 4 rolls of tape and 4 glue sticks (which was new this year) along with requiring them to have a composition notebook (also new this year). I spent more time last year fixing and restarting spiral notebooks for them because they lost pages or fell apart, so I decided to use composition notebooks this year to see if they lasted longer for us.