I also spent a day making these floor pillows for my classroom with my Aunt, Grandma, and Mother. I LOVE how they turned out! The Oven Lovin' is where I got the idea from and then I made some alterations to fit my needs. I bought huge premade plain pillows from JoAnn fabrics that had zippers. My reasoning behind having zippers on the inside pillow was so that I can restuff the pillows because they will most likely get flat or lumpy as the year goes on. For the outside, I picked out a few different fabrics as you can see in the pictures, sewed the sides together and put in a big metal zipper on one side so that I can take the outside off to watch it. As promised here are some pictures from my classroom as it is right now. For each picture, in the caption area, I wrote down details about what is being shown in the pictures. My room is not completely done, but this is a good selection of the different parts of my room. It looks so much better already! This is the room that no one wanted this year and I can understand why. I did not look very inviting, but I've had a few teachers pop in see it and they have said it looks way better which I am proud of!
I've had a lot to sort through from prior teachers which has made this process even longer. At this point, I have decided to stop because it's getting very overwhelming and then around midway through the year, once I know better what I am doing and what my curriculum will be, I will finish sorting/re-sorting through everything.
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As I am busy working on getting my classroom organized and set up before the start of the school year I started thinking back to student teaching. This image was my “theme” for student teaching & I believe it still applies now for my first year as a teacher! I’ve got a lot to get done before the start of the school year, but I’m excited to get started! I will be posting pictures of my classroom sometime soon hopefully. I am guessing I will change my mind a million times and rearrange things as the year goes on, but I want to get some pictures on here to share with everyone! I know a lot of my ideas I got from reading other's blogs so I hope that mine can be an inspiration to other teachers! Today, after months of thinking about it, I've decided to start a blog about my health education classroom. I want to share my ideas that I have and gain new teacher friends to learn from. I hope this blog will provide me with that. My goal is to post at least once a week. The topics will vary but I'm thinking they will cover ideas I have tried in my classroom, resources I've created for my classroom, fun things or stories that happened in my classroom, links to awesome resources I've found, pictures of classroom things, etc. I like to integrate technology into my classroom so I will often share idea I've had on how I've used certain resources as well as health-related lessons or ideas I've cooked up. I hope that this blog will be helpful for both new and veteran teachers teaching at the middle or high school levels!
A little about me: I teach 7-9th-grade Health Education at a 7-12th grade rural secondary school in Minnesota. I graduated in 2009 from the same high school where I now teach. I received my Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Education with a certificate in Educational Computing and Technology in May 2013 from the University of Minnesota in Duluth (UMD). I am currently am enrolled at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMNTC) campus in order to turn my certificate into a full Minnesota teaching license in Computer, Keyboarding & Related Technology Applications, as well as a certificate in K-12 Technology Integration. |
AuthorI teach 7-9 Health Education & Computer 7 in rural southwestern Minnesota. I love using technology in my classroom and teaching students about how to live healthy and informed lives.
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