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Frogs last year......... keep it or tweak it?

Mellie32 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 02:58:59 GMT

I redesigned my classroom last year --- a frog theme! I'm trying to decide if I should keep it or tweak it. I might just do a color theme instead of an animal. Decisions, decisions...

Have you been to or seen pictures of any cute elementary classrooms?

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MyGirlsMom — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:01:06 GMT

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Mz iMac — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:05:42 GMT

My mother is a retired elementary school teacher. Every year her theme was "The First Americans." Her classroom was filled w/pictures of American Indians all from different tribes. By the time the year was up, her students knew that Columbus was not the "first" to step foot on American soil.

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september — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:05:50 GMT

I think it depends where you live. We live by the ocean, so sea life was always a popular theme for classrooms here.

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Ane1Care — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:06:01 GMT

I never had a teacher with a set theme. They'd change with the seasons or holidays. I envied the kids who did.

What grade do you teach?

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Mellie32 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:06:34 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
My mother is a retired elementary school teacher. Every year her theme was "The First Americans." Her classroom was filled w/pictures of American Indians all from different tribes. By the time the year was up, her students knew that Columbus was not the "first" to step foot on American soil.

Very nice. I teach my kids that too. They end up knowing a lot about Native Americans in the fall.

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Mellie32 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:07:06 GMT

@Ane1Care wrote:
I never had a teacher with a set theme. They'd change with the seasons or holidays. I envied the kids who did.

What grade do you teach?

First

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Libbylady — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:08:05 GMT

Keep your frogs and add dragonflies?

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Mellie32 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:08:37 GMT

@Libbylady wrote:
Keep your frogs and add dragonflies?

Oooooh.... I like that.

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Gram W — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:18:17 GMT

I love the frogs for young children. If you want to change you might think of 2or 3 themes and let the children vote on a choice. It would be a teaching tool for this election year. Have a list of age appropriate things that they could make to "enhance" the project. You would cover several different class subjects all at once. It might younger students adjust to the school routine and learn to work as a team. Please let us know what you decide. I would love to hear about it. As a grandmother and new great grandmother I love to play games and do crafts with the boys. (no girls in the family,, just moms).

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Mellie32 — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:24:52 GMT

We've been out of school for awhile now. This helps me get my brain focused back on school. There's always so much to do before the first day. I always try to make my classroom very happy and colorful. For some of my kids, school is their only happy place.

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JaneMarple — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:27:57 GMT

No get togethers with other teacers from your school to talk about the upcoming school year?

No meetings at the end of the previous school year to shate ideas in the teacher's lounge?

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Marp — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:52:37 GMT

Revamp the frog theme by starting the year with polywogs and as the year progresses go through the stages of polywog to frog development. As the end of the year approaches the little polywogs will have grown into frogs ready to face new challenges.

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circles — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 03:53:20 GMT

How about Owls....or Penguins....for a different theme...

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ECBG — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 04:55:32 GMT

How about letting the children decide every few months?

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ValuSkr — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:23:12 GMT

I think you should change the theme every year. The kids like seeing something brand new when returning from the summer break.

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SaRina — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:37:20 GMT

Rip-it, rip-it.

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maestra — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:50:34 GMT

Because my students were older I used curriculum ideas at the beginning of the year, but I also decorated my door w/friendly greetings from different countries/cultures and pinpointed them on a world map.

I would also have my BB focus on regions and American History periods since I also taught AH along w/WH.

Teachers have to have set meeting times permitted by admin. b/c we are all teaching usually at the same time or watching students during lunch/recess.