On the bright side, I have this amazing mural right outside my door!
Old-school chalkboard-
Painted bulletin board that looks like an upside-down German flag.....
Bookshelves and student desks!
What in the world is THIS?
And a lovely chair!
After a few days of hard work, this is what my classroom looks like now!
First, I went to Lowe's and got panel board to cover the old chalkboard and function as a dry erase board! (2 - 4'x8' sheets @ $13 a sheet, not bad at all! Held up with industrial strength Velcro)
Information station for missing work, tardies, and absent binder (look for more information about each of these in another post!)
The all-important Word Wall (Pared de Palabras)!
A few ceiling decorations and bean bags- and you can see a little bit of the newly covered bulletin board (wrapping paper!). The white strips are leftover pieces of panel board that I posted around the room to use as sentence strips for the kids to write on. This area will also serve as a writing station (found a use for the overhead projector!) The students can complete a writing assignment on the overhead and flash it up on the wall for the class to evaluate :)
A little window decoration- Party streamers, fishing line, and small command hooks! Tie the fishing line between 2 command hooks, tape the streamers to the fishing line, twist them down to the bottom, and then tape them to fishing line/command hooks at the bottom.
Reading corner- bought the bench on Craigslist for $20 and recovered it and painted the legs. Bean bags are yard sale specials!
Canvas bins to dress up the A/C unit :)
And, an overall view of the classroom. Not a huge fan of traditional row seating but it might be my best option for now.
And just for fun... this is how I moved my filing cabinet across the room without scratching up the freshly waxed floors :) Happy Decorating everyone!
