Classroom Themes

I have always known that one can tell a good teacher based on their classroom.

When I was a preschool student, we had Jurassic Night and the teachers transformed the entire room into a dinosaur dreamland. Vines hung from the ceiling and giant paper brontosaurus' roamed the room.

My second grade classroom hardly had anything in the classroom. It was a state of disarray with papers and boxes piled throughout the room. There were no art projects that adorned the walls.

If you were to ask me which class I remember more, it was preschool. I remember more content and was happier going to class. In comparison, I don't remember anything about second grade except that I didn't like my teacher. I don't actually remember her but you get the point...

SO every year I try to create a classroom theme that embodies my preschool experience. Two years ago I created a forest hanging redwood tree limbs from the ceiling. Anthropologie gave me hundreds of butterflies from their previous display and I pinned each butterfly to the wall with a seaming pins.

This year my classroom's theme will be Where the Wild Things Are. I have created a Pinterest board with different ideas of what the classroom will look like. I have already updated my classroom website to reflect the theme. I think my students will really enjoy how I transform the class. The Where the Wild Things Pinterest board can be viewed at:
https://www.pinterest.com/analis99/where-the-wild-things-are/

Classroom themes from previous years include:
Superheros
https://www.pinterest.com/analis99/superhero-classroom/
Harry Potter
https://www.pinterest.com/analis99/harry-potter-classroom/