| Posted By |
Message |
MissJones
I need a nap!
Member since 5/05 22136 total posts
Name:
|
Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
Just wondering if I'm the only crazy one sitting on the floor last night coloring in letters for some new posters. 
|
Posted 8/19/09 8:33 AM  |
| |
|
Arieschick29
aries+cancer= pisces&gemini
Member since 3/06 4268 total posts
Name:
Jen
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
Anything with student names on it or things they use I remake every year
~bathroom passes
~nametags
~behavior cards
I am making a few posters I saw in catalogs or online that I don't think was worth the $$
~ how to choose a book from the library
~division steps
~center rules
|
| Posted 8/19/09 9:20 AM |
| |
|
jes81276
summer fun!
Member since 3/06 4962 total posts
Name:
Jaime
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
nooooooo....only stuff with kids names.
I have learned to use fadeless paper on things so that I don't have to redor them every year.
|
| Posted 8/19/09 1:00 PM |
| |
|
CmC720
LIF Adolescent
Member since 8/07 868 total posts
Name:
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
Posted by jes81276
nooooooo....only stuff with kids names.
I have learned to use fadeless paper on things so that I don't have to redor them every year.
I do the same thing..but i finally took the paper down last year and im not looking forward to getting in there in a few weeks and doing all those bulletin boards again!!!
|
| Posted 8/19/09 1:16 PM |
| |
|
HLT407
So lucky
Member since 11/07 1910 total posts
Name:
Heather
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
I reuse everything each year. Since I teach 1st grade I use numbers instead of student names. My principal (at the time) felt it was less embarrassing for the students if their numbers were on the behavior chart & reading groups board... So far, it's worked for me- I haven't had to make new stuff yet
Message edited 8/19/2009 3:19:28 PM.
|
| Posted 8/19/09 3:19 PM |
| |
|
|
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
I used to- but for the sake of time and being more environmentally friendly AND frugal  I laminate and reuse stuff as much as possible. I don't really change my class rules, procedures, subject signs for bull bds, etc. and I always have to do a classroom library that's organized by genre (those signs are especially a pain!)
Of course stuff does wear out but I have gotten a few years out of most of my stuff.
|
| Posted 8/19/09 4:25 PM |
| |
|
Arieschick29
aries+cancer= pisces&gemini
Member since 3/06 4268 total posts
Name:
Jen
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
Posted by CmC720
Posted by jes81276
nooooooo....only stuff with kids names.
I have learned to use fadeless paper on things so that I don't have to redor them every year.
I do the same thing..but i finally took the paper down last year and im not looking forward to getting in there in a few weeks and doing all those bulletin boards again!!!
Best tip I've ever heard ( though I haven't done it yet) get fabric cheap or on sale and use that to cover your boards. It is a one time cost, and does not rip when you pin or staple papers onto it.
|
| Posted 8/19/09 4:48 PM |
| |
|
jgl
Love my little boys!!!
Member since 8/07 7060 total posts
Name:
g
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
Posted by HLT407
I reuse everything each year. Since I teach 1st grade I use numbers instead of student names. My principal (at the time) felt it was less embarrassing for the students if their numbers were on the behavior chart & reading groups board... So far, it's worked for me- I haven't had to make new stuff yet
we do this too but only because it is easier to not have to redo certain things. we use it for their "frogs" on the behavior chart.
but i also love it because when we have a firedrill or something, as we walk i call out their number and they say here, if they dont i know that one is missing or absent.
|
| Posted 8/19/09 11:58 PM |
| |
|
drpepper318
MIR MIR MIR!
Member since 6/07 8274 total posts
Name:
me
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
I don't put up a lot of decorations at all, and most of it is just student work.... but the word walls & bulletin boards I do here & there, I must redo every year because I don't have space to store them from year to year, and by the end of the year they're not so nice looking anymore so I trash them.
|
| Posted 8/20/09 2:07 AM |
| |
|
Athee
I believe in miracles!
Member since 8/07 2462 total posts
Name:
A
|
Re: Do you make new posters and decorations every year?
I have a different theme in my classroom each year so as far as bulletin borders and stuff like that go I buy every year. Last year my room was all monkeys, the year before that it was all sea animals and the year before that was all apples. Im not sure what I will be doing this year but for me I like it because its like a fresh start... if that even makes sense !
|
| Posted 8/21/09 7:32 PM |
| |
|
