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Somel days ago I have been watching some videos on youtube about children education in other countries, and there is something I am curious about.
Please, Could you share ideas about how all of you decorate your classrooms, if you use some specific topics or principals give you the ideas or techniques to do this work inside your classroom.
For example in my school, the coordinator gives us the command to decorate our classroom, such as: the calendar, the students´ birthday board, the class schedule and the place where the school flag, shield and the anthem are sticked, but sometimes I feel this is boring because every year we do the same thing, and even students don´t pay attention to it through the days, it have become in just a wall with no interesting sense.
I would like to read every comment you have or if you wanna share photos of your classroom, ideas are important to me.
Hi, well , I have plenty of things in my class, the security comission doesn �t quite agree because in case of fire!:((Well anyway as work I have asked my pupils to make a small poster to introduce their favourite star, or a poster in which they had to choose an animal in danger of disappearing ang invent a slogan to promote the protection of these endangered species, the younger ones had to make a poster about their favourite country, and the older ones had to make one to present the evils of bullying and what we should all do to prevent it and help the victims (all with photos and their own drawings). After correcting and marking them, I put them all in my classroom, except those against bullying which are in the hall of the shool. They ussually like reading what the others wrote. Hope it helps, have good Sunday! Sylvie
I used to privilege children �s work, as Sylvie says. That �s the best way to keep them looking at the decorations.
Here is a picture of cootie catchers I pinned up the wall in the corridor. The pupils had made a cootie catcher on the United Kingdom after a webquest and they decorated it. they were all little works of art! I made a display in the corridor and kids from other classes did look at them, answered the questions and the" artists" were ever so proud!!
Have a look:
Here is another example of what can be done to display children�s work and decorate your room at the same time!! It is on Our lovely member: Victoria labybug�s site:
At the school where I used to work, we were also required to do the same as in your school Pablo. During the year, the walls got pretty cluttered.
Now I work in a Montessori school and I like the sparseness of decoration we use there. I think I helps the children stay more focussed on their work and not on a lot of paraphenalia on the wall.
Yes Bruce: fortune tellers, cootie catchers, chatterboxes , salt cellars and whirly birds are all different names for a traditionnal origami construction as shown in the video below: Will you try to make one?
