Hanging Art and Painting Leaves

It seems that every teacher I know is always struggling to hang up artwork and classwork.  It seems we never have enough wall space or bulletin boards.  Last year, I came up with the idea to use a binder clip with a Stikki Clip.  I was frustrated that I had to use more that one Stikki Clip to hang up papers, one at the top and one at the bottom.  So I stuck a small binder clip in the Stikki Clip and attached it to the wall.  Can we intelligent ;)!  Here is what it looks like.  I took this of one hanging outside my classroom in the hall.

I also have some classwork hung up with clothespins that are hot glued to the wall.  I didn't hot glue them to the wall, but I know who did and I'm not tell.  They hold work up too, but they are not easily removed and repositioned. 

If you notice, I also have a strip that I can hang work on too, but it's just not enough to hang everyone's work up.  Do you like our fall leaves?  My students did a little finger painting with red, yellow, and orange.  Then I gave them a leaf cut out to trace.  After they traced the leaf, they cut it out and I hung it up.  Kinders love to finger paint and I was surprised at the many that had never done finger painting until we did these leaves.  That just means we need to paint more often. 

So next week we go to school Monday - Wednesday and then we are off for Thanksgiving.  I know many of you get the entire week off.  Let's just say I am a little jealous, but I do have a lot that I will be doing with my class and one thing we are doing is taking a field trip to a nursing home and singing Thanksgiving songs and rhymes to the people there.  We have a lot of practice left to do on our singing and we are dressing up as Native Americans.  We are tie dying shirts brown for this, and we are making some pretty patterned necklaces.  We have already made our headdress which I have already posted about.  We just need to add some feathers. 

I also like to do a pilgrim costume and let the kids eat lunch with them on.  More on that later.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!

Teacher Tip Sunday!!!

Miss Kindergarten is have a teacher tip linky so I thought I would share my tip to keeping the classroom clean.  When we have a paper that requires cutting, I put mini trash cans on each table.  This keeps students from wandering strolling around the classroom and it keeps the floors and tables cleaner.  The kids love being the responsible one at their table that gets to empty the trash can after everyone picks up around their chair.  I no longer have to remember to pass out the trash cans as one of my students will remember and ask to do it for me.  Can we say "Wonderful!"

If you want to link up or check out the other teacher tip post, you can do it here.

http://www.miss-kindergarten.com/

 

I hope everyone has had a great Sunday.  I'm off tomorrow for Veteran's Day and to celebrate, I am having a sale at Teachers Notebook.  Up to 40% off.  Check it out here.