
I have been having such fun the last week or so. I will be teaching 1st & 2nd grade on Sunday mornings at church starting in September and I have been busy decorating my classroom. I absolutely LOVE to do this! We just moved into our building back in March (?) and this particular classroom hasn't been used for anything but storage since we moved in so it was
B-A-R-E, bare! One thing I cannot stand is a bare classroom! There are white walls, a white floor and a white table! Even though I have spent lots of hours up there working, it still needs a few things~namely I need to find a large, inexpensive rug to help brighten it up and also to help with sound. The room has such an echo! I'd also like to come up with some kind of cheap, easy curtain and I'd love to have the table painted a bright color. *sigh* I hate to paint so I doubt I'll do that.
I used to spend about 2 weeks before the beginning of school getting my classroom ready. I would "piddle" alot but I loved doing it! (As I sat coloring today, I told our preacher that I just really enjoy this thing and think it's kind of "therapeutic" for me!) It would get overwhelming sometimes but it was so rewarding to see a bulletin board completed that looked nice. I am NOT a perfectionist when it comes to this kind of thing so I don't want people to look too closely lest they find a torn border, coloring outside the lines or something stapled crooked! Of course, those days of working such long hours in a classroom were "pre-children" when there was noone else to worry about since Chris was at work while I was "piddling." It has been a little harder to work on this classroom since I've had Miss Katie Boo to contend with but it's still worked out pretty well. She would spend time "helping" me, playing with old toys in the resource room, bothering "Mr. Ben" in the office or having a snack.
I am really excited about teaching this class. Gracie will be in it and typically I don't prefer to teach my own child for some reason I'm really excited! There is a man teaching it on Wednesday nights who will do a great job so I'm excited about the job he will do as well. I like having a teacher for my children who I know I can depend on to show up on time and be prepared and have a substitute when they need one. (Man, I hope I can live up to my own expectations! LOL) He came and hung up some bulletin boards for me this morning. Of course, after he left I decided I wanted another one hung so I'll have to ask pretty please for him to come back and do that one I guess.







5 comments:
Knowing how plain those rooms are, it sure does look much better. I think that a rug and a curtain would help lots! You could probably find a cute rug at Lowes or Home Depot or even at the BRU in the sale section. I know they had some cute tab top curtains at Wal-mart for just $7. I only saw pink and navy, but yours might have more variety. Good work, can't wait to see in person.
Those are lucky girls to have such an excited and motivated teacher!!
The room looks great and I love the wiggly worm idea!! We may copy it at our church. Drop in when you are in the neighborhood!! He hee!
It all looks great, Ja! Alissa is right...check out Home Depot and Lowe's. I got a 12x13 piece of carpet off of the roll at Home Depot for the kids living room. It was under $100 and it's perfect. The room echoed so badly and this "padded" things very well. Get a neutral color, then throw some bright small rugs around. Voila!
Sounds to me like someone might be almost ready to go back to a daily classroom.
Almost.
Great classroom! Those kids are lucky to have you for a teacher!
Wow - that looks great. I can tell you put a lot of work into making it a special classroom.
I am always so thankful for those like you who teach our kids about Jesus.
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