I was looking through old pictures on my camera and found pics of last year’s classroom…my garden theme! I didn’t really start out with any theme at all…I just wanted to use that cute, pink fadeless paper. I wanted to be different. In all of my years of teaching, I never saw a teacher use pink paper. I decided to border the pink paper with yellow. My goal was to have a fun and happy space to walk into everyday.
After using poms for my daughter’s birthday party, I came up with the idea to use them as flowers in a variety of vibrant and gorgeous colors all over my classroom. I purchased the most beautiful aqua tissue paper for flowers, a pretty creamsicle orange, yellow, lavender, lime green, and pink. The end result…a pretty and happy classroom! I had so many people compliment me on the bright colors. If someone was having a bad day, I would find them in my classroom for a “pick me up!” The room was such a happy place to be!
Here is a picture of the self portraits that I had my first graders do. Can you believe a first grader drew this?!?! I can’t remember the website I used, but I googled “how to draw a self portrait” and did this in steps with my students. They turned out great!
My pink and white polka dot curtains! I bet you have figured out by now that I LOVE polka dots!
This is my Accelerated Reader board ~
Pretty polka dot lanterns!
My Bear Mountain ~ My students move across the mountain depending on how many sight words they know.
I can’t help but LOVE this classroom!
I spent a lot of time in that classroom!! It had a friendly and welcoming feel to it. Your room was beautiful then as it is now. Your creativity is AMAZING!!
I’m so glad you found the photos – it is (or was) fabulous! Will have to locate that site bc the self-portraits are perfect for young artists.
Melanie, I still have that self portrait of Dustin. That definately went into my “save” bin. Great project for 1st graders.
Love this….how did you make the flowers?
Tissue paper. I have a tutorial on this if you look back. I think I posted it in October.
Where do you get the cute lanterns? Also how do the AR flowers board work. Is it by points or what?
I bought those cute lanterns from Polka Dot Market. I’m not sure if they carry those anymore. I plan to sell solid lanterns in my shop this summer, if you are interested. Yes, those are AR points. For first grade, their goal was 5 AR points by the end of the year. We didn’t start using AR until our last semester, so it may look like we have very low standards, but in reality, they only had two and half months to reach that goal. 🙂
How did you make the pretty flowers? I love them so much and they just make me smile.
Thanks,
Marla