I'm back! It's been a great summer but I have been awful at my goal of getting this blog up and running. Hopefully I'll be better at it during the school year.
So far this has been the year of Pinterest. My classroom has never looked so organized. It's a blue and yellow polka-dot extravaganza. Pictures of the different projects will be added Monday.
It all started with Debbie Diller's "Spaces and Places" and the idea of color blocking. All baskets, posters, and labels are in shades of blue and yellow. Keeping the colors consistent really helped with keeping the room looking unified. The hope is to one day replace the two rugs with one blue one.
Then it was time to re-look at all the stuff I had in my classroom. The room needed a purge. All furniture was evaluated. If it didn't serve multiple purposes and fit with the idea of individualized, child centered instruction it had to go. That hurt in the beginning but began to feel really good.
