Wednesday, May 1, 2013

dreaming of first grade


dreaming of my first grade classroom

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Wafter twelve wonderful years of teaching kindergarten i decided to go back to first grade.  it was a very hard decision to make however i am getting older and older each year and the children are getting younger and younger each year and sometimes i just don’t have all that kindergarten energy.   so i decided it was time for a change.  nothing to drastic i love teaching young children.

i have had the same classroom for 12 years now and i have a lot of stuff.  for the past 12 years i have decorated my classroom in the same basic color scheme as well, green, blue, yellow with a pop of pink!   i love my classroom however i will have to leave it because it is a kindergarten room. 

Sso i am off to a new territory and with that new possibilities.  i may have some of the same students next year and i don’t want them to feel like they just walked back into kindergarten.  Sso i am going to go with a whole new color scheme and theme.

here are some of my inspiration photos
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first is the red check curtains.   love red check curtains... it gives the classroom the little red school house feel.
Tthen i noticed the red geraniums in the white pots. Tthat would be an amazing idea for the   window ledges or religion/reading areas.
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i found this photo for my desk area however that lead me on this idea
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it reminded me of the cute tree i made last year maybe i could put that somewhere and add a red balloon

but then i found the best idea for the reading area
both the banner and the eiffel tower
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i want to repaint all my chairs in my writing center red
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and repaint the little benches in my listening center red
i want to look for some more chairs at rummage sales this summer and of course paint them red for the reading area

i am going to get white baskets for the books and make red labels

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 all i can think about is the color red ....and first grade....what and where am i going to be teaching.

i am super excited about the new adventure.  

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