Over the past few weeks, I have been hooked on Pinterest! Every time I visit the website I find a new, fun, creative project to do --- whether it is for around the house, a cute accessory, or something neat for the classroom. Last evening, I completed my first DIY crafty idea that I found on Pinterest --- a photoframe message board. I actually made eight of them! Now, you are probably thinking, 'wow, she went way overboard on the number of message boards', however, I didn't! Last year, interactive whiteboards were installed in every classroom in the school that I teach and when mine was installed I lost my only white board space in my classroom. I really didn't mind because what I wrote on my white board, I incorporated into my flip-charts (similar to power point presentation, but interactive), however, I missed having my vocab words and homework assignments displayed throughout the whole unit instead of just a 25 second glance as I went about teaching the lesson. My original plan was to post vocab using the old school method - 'printed words, bordered with colored paper, and them laminated', however, that idea went to the wayside when my school schedule kicked into high gear and I never posted all of the vocab like I had hoped... well after a few visits on Pinterest, I found the answer to my vocab posting dilemma --- dyi photoframe message boards. Here are my creations! I hung them in my classroom today!
I love this idea because the vocab from each unit can be written on the message boards with a dry erase marker and then erased easily at the end of the unit --- no more wasted hours cutting, pasting, and laminating.... even better yet, I now have a place to post my homework! Just FYI, all the scrap booking paper is designed, some of the images you can't really tell --- they just look plain --- but they are all cute and match my new curtains in my classroom!!!
Happy 2011-2012 School Year, Everyone!
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