Today I focused on assembling the dramatic play area in my classroom. I'm blessed to have a large room, so one half of the room is our home center and the other side I'm dedicating to seasonally themed dramatic play. There will always been a forest of trees on the wall and the theme will change as the weather changes. For September, I will attach apples to the trees for the kids to go apple picking! I didn't get far enough today to attach the apples, but here is a preview of the trees. I used fadeless art paper rolls from Oriental Trading. Fellow teachers saw what I was making and wanted to make some trees for their rooms too and I still have a ton of paper left over. I ordered these bobbing apples from OTC and plan to glue magnets on them as well as adhere magnets behind my tree for the students to "pick" off the tree during class. I considered Velcro at one point, but I fear it could be too sticky and rip my tree. Come October there will be leaves on the ground to rake and pumpkins to pick from a mini pumpkin patch. Going into November, the greenery will be removed, bare branches will show, and eventually be covered in snow. We are going to spend a lot of the time in September focusing on academic assessments and using apples as a fun theme. In attempts the merge the two focuses, I snagged some apple cut outs from OTC. We will be measuring our heights based on her number of apples it takes, we will also use them for a fun craft based on Dr. Seuss' "Ten Apples on Top" book, and lastly will assess number values with an apple and the correspondence "worm". You can find the papers I used to create my art walk, and many more teaching supplies, here: Oriental Trading Teacher Supplies Disclaimer: This review is based strictly on my opinion. I was provided the sample free of charge by the company to provide my honest review. No other type of compensation was received. All ideas and opinions are my own.
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My school doesn't start back up until after Labor Day, so today was the first day I was able to get in and start setting up my classroom.
My goal was to get most of my art wall assembled, especially since my class size has doubled and I wasn't sure it was all going to fit! Luckily, I had the perfect amount of space between my dry erase board and corner wall to fit ten 12x12 scrapbook papers in a row. Because my classroom is a shared spaced in the evenings I have a particular color theme I have to adhere to, but luckily for me Oriental Trading Company has a Full Color Spectrum scrapbook paper pack that features all the hues of our building theme (plus more!). After obsessively measuring and remeasuring the paper grid, I attached the papers to wall with tacky putty so hopefully they will stay up overnight. If they don't hold up I will try the painters tape & hot glue trick next. When I come back to set up on Day 2, I will secure clothespins on the wall slightly above the papers (so I don't weigh down the scrapbook paper backgrounds), and attach art placeholders that say "Amazing work by ______ coming soon!" Day 2 will also begin assembly of my Brag Tag Wall, featuring some items I personally designed and more awesome products from Oriental Trading. I can't wait to have everything up and ready for our Meet the Teacher Open House!
You can find the papers I used to create my art walk, and many more teaching supplies, here:
​Disclaimer: This review is based strictly on my opinion. I was provided the sample free of charge by the company to provide my honest review. No other type of compensation was received. All ideas and opinions are my own |
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