There are some things “they” don’t teach in “teacher school” and ya know…”they” should. Based on inspiration from @MrsHallScholars and @peachsandgrades, I thought a quick post about putting together classrooms might be helpful. No, I’m not talking “Pinterest-Ready Rooms” (mine is far from that) but just some hacks if you want to do some things for students.

PLEASE: If you have any tips or tricks I didn’t mention, please post a comment or on Twitter! @mrskellylove

Things to make:

1. Making big posters
2. Making anchor charts
3. Bulletin boards

Hardware:

Put these items in your tool kit:

• X-acto blade and extra blades
• High quality paper cutter (and store away from students)
• Yardstick
• Poster board, poster paper, butcher paper
• High quality stapler
• Staple remover (the flat kind)
• Packing tape (works better than painter’s or masking tape)
• Big Sharpies
• Color markers
• Yarn
• Fishline (if you want to hang lanterns, etc. from the ceiling)
• Cup hooks/wall hooks

Projector method:

Mrs. Hall mentioned how she does big posters for her room, and this is a great way to make a large graphic or anchor chart:

For things like bulletin boards, I use a piece of long string to make sure the tape, etc., are level first. The X-Acto knife comes in handy for cutting precise edges to the edge of the bulletin board, and you don’t need to buy expensive borders, etc.

Miscellaneous: