My Patriotic Classroom

 Last year I accepted a position as a math assistant. I wanted to be able to continue taking my kids to school and picking them up. A few days before school started, my principal asked me to please consider teaching and so I agreed to teach 1st grade. I had to pick a classroom theme fast! I decided to bring all of our family 4th of July decorations and decorate in red, white, and blue. 

  Due to Covid and all the obstacles it presented, I never had the time I needed to complete the decorations/decorating. In April my husband agreed to make 4 or 5 sets of bookshelves and we painted them red. I am finally ready to reveal the outcome: 

I made the wreath out of....wait for it......strips of plastic tablecloths! 

Left to right: Our Sight Word contest board and Sound Wall.  My students are either, "red stars", "white stars", or, "blue stars." When it is time to grab things from their cubbies, or put things away, I call them by colors so they are not all trying to get to the same area. You can see the cubbie labels. 

The curtains are also made out of plastic tablecloths. The flowers and can on the table were purchased at Dollar Tree this year before the 4th of July. The red, white, and blue paper flowers are also from Dollar Tree. I purchased the posters from Teachers Pay Teachers. 

  The glittery stars were purchased from Hobby Lobby. 

Most of these decorative items came from Hobby Lobby and were part of our home decor. The tumbler was a gift from a student. 

This picture was taken when the room was still in progress. 

Epiphany

 I haven't posted in 5 years! Wow, life has been busy. I am now posting things I want to access easily (aka I lose papers in the house).

Hopefully I can soon throw away all papers with my notes. 



Advent & Epiphany- Matthew 2: 1-12,
It's an old tradition to bless your home on the Feast of the Epiphany – the Twelfth Day of Christmas. The century and year surround the initials C + M + B, which are both symbolic of the traditional names of the magi (Caspar, Melchior & Balthasar as well as the initials for the Latin phrase "Christus manionem benedicat" ("May Christ bless this home").