Make Your Classroom Inviting Like a Guest Room
Assemble little welcome bags full of donated or inexpensive school supplies such as pencils and packs of paper.
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers!
Like most educators, I’m always on the lookout for ideas that I can use or adapt for school.
A set of adaptable home decor tips caught my attention recently…
tips on creating an inviting guest room…
adaptable tips to help teachers make classrooms inviting, too.
Every teacher has her/his tricks for decorating teaching and learning spaces.
Most teachers I know already put “a ton” of effort into setting up classrooms at the start of a school year, often using their own funds.
Tips that feature fun and inexpensive – or better still – FREE ways to make your classroom inviting, like a guest room, are most welcome.
Assemble Welcome Bags – Welcome bags or baskets, staples at special events such as weddings, often serve to welcome guests to a home.
Consider greeting students with little welcome bags full of donated or inexpensive school supplies such as pencils, erasers and packs of paper.
Children will be delighted at this attention-getting way to make your classroom feel inviting.
Add Special Additions To A Bookshelf – In addition to changing up the books that you feature on a classroom bookshelf during a season like fall,
Tuck a little scarecrow into a fall arrangement as a special addition to a classroom bookshelf.
catch your students’ attention by asking them to keep eyes open for special additions to the bookshelf.
Slip a small scarecrow, for example, into a flower arrangement (you can make a fall arrangement with inexpensive supplies).
Place the arrangement on a bookshelf. Challenge children to discover the scarecrow.
This inviting trick teaches kids to be observant.
Surprise! Surprise! Make your classroom inviting like a guest room with fun surprises.
Create or buy a seasonal frame for a poem that you post on a bulletin board in your classroom.
Falling leaves float by/Orange, red, yellow, green/Falling leaves in autumn/What a lovely scene!
Put a basket full of fall leaves (real or silk) at the foot of the bulletin board.
Surprise students with a poetry reading that includes a surprise toss of the leaves into the air. Invite kids to recite the poem aloud with you.
How else can you make your classroom inviting like a guest room? (more…)
Barbara Cleary has been serving as a resource to hundreds of educators for more than 25 years.
An award-winning writer, producer, teacher, and trainer, Barbara’s focus is on offering easy, fun tools and tricks that support K-5 curricula and assist teachers with classroom management.
