Moving to a new grade level for the second year in a row, I didn’t quite know where to start again this summer. I brought home curriculum and textbooks, downloaded all of the common core standards, started looking at what went wrong last year that needed to be improved… but most importantly, since I will have some of the same kids that I had last year, I needed a new classroom theme! And that meant that the cute DIY projects took precedence over everything else for a while!
My room was repainted, and while the color is lighter than it was before, it’s still quite yellow. Pair that with wooden cubbies, wood trim, a wooden desk, wood doors… it was a little overwhelming and needed some contrast and color! I am a huge fan of the white shelves and cart that I painted last year, with all of my clear and white bins, so that helped. I decided to get rid of the lime green bulletin boards and trade it for turquoise, and then I found the cute, white, Boho Birds borders to tie it all together.
After a few trips to the craft stores, I had tulle, scrapbooking paper, a cute wooden bird cutout (on clearance for a dollar), a few small wood birds, small wood rectangles, small clothespins, glitter glue, glue dots, and probably a few other things.
The large bird is decoration for the classroom door, the medium birds will be locker tags, and the small birds and white rectangles will be the dismissal board.
Tulle and scrapbook paper turned into cute little nested birds to number the tables.
Leftover scrapbook paper turned into a pennant to hang above the white board and all the little critters my kids have given me over the years (two sided means it’s even pretty in from the hallway!)
Here is the bird on the door with my homemade “curtains” (scrapbook cardstock punched into circles and sewn together on the sewing machine), and my jobs board with the glittered clothespins to hold the name cards. The 5 jobs at the top will be revealed a few weeks into school, and students will need to apply for those ‘Specialists’ jobs.
Now that everything is hung up, I guess I better dig back into the planning!