Classic Kinder Classroom Creativity

CLASSIC CLASSROOM CREATIVITY

Today let's take a look around a delightful classroom that I had the pleasure of visiting last month in FL just before we started north. I know my regular readers enjoy looking over my shoulder, as I dash in and out of classrooms around the country making my author-illustrator school visits. This one's a BEAUTY! 

Mrs. Brunner's kindergarten room sparkled with black-and-white design elements and polka-dots, too! 
You're going to LUV LUV LUV these 'center titles' splashed around the room. Look closely. They are 'built' 
on black dessert paper plates. CLEVER!

This is a teacher with a real sense of 'design' and she's really gone to plenty of DIY effort to make her classroom both inviting and organized. Here's a close-up of the reading center title. SWEET!

This same theme is carried out throughout the room. 

Here's a little peek at some polka-dots.

I had an earlier RoundUP of Behavior Charts in classrooms. 
I'll have to add this one to the earlier RoundUP. 



Speaking of earlier RoundUPs..... 
Take a look at this system of 'buckets-for-filling.' 

Here's the link to the RoundUP of buckets that I just pulled together. How did I miss this system of Mrs. Brunner? Her method of keeping all of the buckets together in a shoe organizer is sheer genius! 

The wall in the far corner of the room acts as a bulletin board for a brilliant family homework project from earlier in the year. Every child took one of the cardboard letters home. Then the children got to work under parental supervision. 
VOILA!

Our Mrs. Brunner was agonizing that the alphabet had become incomplete over the ensuing months in my photo above. So we found the two letters that had fallen down. So you can see them up close and personal. 

Here's a simple and clever writing project underway in plenty of time for Mother's Day. 

Common Core Writing in Kindergarten -- for Mother's Day 

I will need to add this writing prompt into my Mother's Day RoundUP. You need that earlier article if you're still looking for gift ideas! Can you 'feel' the Common Core calling out from this writing prompt experience? Common Core and Kindergarten!

Here's the way she displays her student work, just over her teacher's desk. Those are precut foam circles that you can get at a big craft store. She has permanently attached a clothespin to the circle and then affixed the clothespins to the wall.... so she can 'just' clip new projects into view. Of course I adore the happy polka dots, but my favorite part of the display is the title: "Kinertastic Work." 

I'll conclude today with a delightful display in the room's corner -- over by the windows. 

Yup. I've already had a "Hungry Caterpillar" article -- filled with inspiration for spring! 

Hope that all of these ideas inspire you 
as you begin to daydream about starting all over again next fall. 
When do you choose a new 'theme' for your classroom setting? 
By all means, please pin. 
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If you've enjoyed this episode of my 'classroom crashing' then I know 
you'll appreciate this earlier episode. 
Even the anchor charts are color coordinated with the room theme! 

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