I hope my first day will be filled with joy and excitement and enthusiasm for learning, for lunch, for reading, for making new friends, for recess, for homework, for fresh glue, for new pencils, for algebra, for paper footballs...

Monday, July 19, 2010

Am I Wild Enough About Learning?

It turns out that we elementary teachers have a school-wide classroom theme to open up the year. Apparently, this is routine and a tried & true way of getting little learners excited about the upcoming school year (I think I remember these from my days in elementary school, but I’ll have to take a trip in the Way-Back Machine to know for sure). Our school’s theme is: Wild About Learning. Not too shabby. Leaves the door open to some real creativity.

My challenges: I've not done this classroom-decorating gig before, and I'm not sure how my vision of Wild About Learning is going to go over with a 5th Grade audience. If I can execute my interpretation of the theme as I'd like to, then there is a 112% chance they're going to know what a full-on goofball I am within five seconds of seeing our learning laboratory; on the other hand, they may develop a healthy dose of trepidation about coming to class unprepared to learn. Cute classroom art meets nightmarish 3D props-YEEHAW!

Stay tuned for photos. Maybe.

Mr I

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