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Classroom Decorations – Fun Seasonal Items

Classroom decorations can transform dull, boring spaces into bright and festive ones.  When Fall begins, the holiday season gets well underway.  Various groups around the world celebrate seasons changing and the holidays that take place.  Do your classroom decorations reflect these changes and celebrations?  Here are some idea on how you can incorporates these changes into your classroom, home school, kids’ activity group, or church group.

Classroom decorations include fun bulletin board sets, accents, charts and posters, window clings, and seasonal decorations.  How you use these decorations is up to you.  Bulletin boards are everywhere!  Schools, churches, and homes all use them in different ways.  It is fun to add a border to make information more noticeable.  I have even used borders to make my own defined bulletin board space on a blank wall space.  I have seen teachers use boarders on dry erase boards to separate teaching areas.  They jazz it up by changing the borders with the seasons.

Halloween will be here soon, and I know that we are getting ready for the Fall Festival at our church.  We will use accents, chart toppers, and window clings to decorate game booths and doorways.  Along with school carnivals, classroom parties, and family celebrations there are many other events that you can use seasonal classroom decorations.  For instance, PTA meetings, parent workshops, book fairs, fundraisers, and sporting events are other activities where you can post decorations to create a fun environment.

One of the benefits of purchasing classroom decorations from a teacher supply company is that items such as accents and letters come in sets.  When you are decorating a large area this is beneficial.  Also, teacher supply stores have many resource books that have suggestions for activities to go along with various themes.

So next time you are wanting to bring seasonal or holiday decorations into your classroom, home, or any other setting, check out www.K12schoolsupplies for your decoration needs.

Classroom Decorations for Parent Conferences

Classroom decorations for parent-teacher conferences should represent the wonderful learning activities that your classroom has been doing.  Classroom decorations do not need to be elaborate, but they can be a great way to display student work.  I like for classroom decorations to be colorful and stand out.  Not only should classroom decorations incorporate your current themes, but your classroom displays should have at least one product from every child.  How do you make sure every student has a piece of work displayed for parent-teacher conferences?  Here are some ideas:

1. Student work – I believe that some of the most creative classroom decorations are those displaying student work.  Highlight the activities that your class has been doing.  The most important thing to remember is that you do not need to display the same piece for every child.  At times it might make sense to have a finalized copy of all of the “All About Me” posters, but I like to showcase a variety of projects.  Students all have different talents and excel in different areas.  So, I like to pull their best pieces from a variety of projects.
2. Keep it simple -  When using decoration accents, I find that keeping it simple is best.  I don’t want to distract from the student work, but I do like to highlight the pieces by using letters or fun borders.
3. Perfection is not the goal -  While you want the display to look nice, you want it to represent what they students are learning.  If you are displaying a writing piece, work with students to correct errors and give explanations as to why they are making the changes.
4. Have students share their work – It is very easy to put up various projects that go unnoticed.  Let student know the importance of the displays and have them show their work to their parents at the conference.

These are just some of the ways that you can make the most out of parent-teacher conferences.  If you are looking for more ideas, visit www.K12SchoolSupplies.