Back Teaching AVID

It was a turmoil year at my school.  I started teaching my 6-8th Leadership class, but budget cuts happened and we had to surplus teachers.  With that in mind, I lost my classes and was moved to AVID, which I loved any way.  It was bitter sweet to take my Leadership classes and give them to other teachers.  I was allowed to keep one class of 6th graders.  I was moved to AVID in the beginning of October.  I am currently teaching 6-7th graders which was great, but now it was like the first day of school again, I had to go over my ritual and routines, my expectations, and try to figure out where I needed to start.  So, I decided to teach them how to do Cornell notes.  You know I am a Pinterest fanatic, so I needed something that will help my 6th graders to remember how to use their Cornell Notes and remediation for my 7th graders.  So the search began.  I found an image, so I constructed my bulletin board.


Now, that was done.  The next lesson I started was how to do a tutorial.  I needed another visual to help them with the Tutorial Request Form (TRF).  I found another idea that was on Pinterest, but they used chalk paint on the wall, but I did not want to do that because I change rooms each year.  So, the light bulb went off in my head and I came up with placing black bulletin board paper on my closet door and I had a couple of my students create the TRF on the door with chalk.  It came out great.

 

2014-2015 Leadership Classroom

It's the end of the school year and I took pictures of my classroom before I took everything down before summer break. This school year 2014-2015, I taught for the first time a Leadership class.  I had to create my own curriculum which was exciting.  I decided to use round tables for collaboration and projects.  Each table had four students.  Here are some of the pictures of my classroom.

I only had one bulletin board, so I decided to use it as my background behind my desk.

On the blue wall students had to come up with quotes that were inspirational to them and I put them on the wall.  Also, this area I kept my library and supplies that the students used on a daily basis.

My student display their work on the walls and I had a place on the back table where they turned in their work.

The white board was the class Command Center.  We did a lot of service projects, so we created a large monthly calendar.

The blue line on the floor was for our Philosophical Chair discussions.  I did not use chairs when we did this activity because it was too much to move the chairs back and forth over the line.  I had my students stand and if they changed their opinion they just walked across the blue line.

This was the front of my class where I displayed students' work and I used several ideas from Pinterest to create what went on my whiteboards.

Paris Theme Part 2

Continuing on the Paris Theme for my daughter, I painted an old chest using the inspiration from Pinterest and Live Love Diy blog (LiveLoveDiy.com) to help give me inspiration and painting tips.

The blog Live Love Diy blog section on painting.  I sanded the lacquer chest and used a white primer.

Then, I went to Home Depot purchased sample paint in black and pink. I used two coats on the chest and drawers.

 I purchased the knobs at Home Depot.  This is the outcome.

 

Paris Theme: part 1

 I am working on two projects for two of my daughters, I think I am a little bit nuts for doing this.  My middle daughter wants a Paris theme room.  We have started a little by finding an entertainment center that I had to redo and a desk for her room.  She wanted pink and black colors, this project is ongoing. 

 I needed a small entertainment center for the room.  This was perfect, so I sand the furniture than spray painted it used Krylon Colormster indoor/outdoor gloss paint and the color was watermelon.  It came out wonderful, but I should have prime the cabinet.  It took two coats of paint

My AVID Classroom

My name is Tracey, I am a full time teacher in a middle school.  I have three beautiful girls and a wonderful husband.  On my spare time I love to do DIY projects using popular social media sites.  I have done several for my classroom.   This year I teach a course called AVID, which is a course that prepare students for college.  I got some of my ideas from Pinterest or I used the pins as inspiration to create my ideal classroom.

I love to do collages. I made one for my classroom and the theme was AVID.

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My students did a project called Talking Heads. They had to find words and pictures that represented them and place it on construction paper shape like their heads. I took their project and formed the AVID person.

My class used to be an art room and my cabinets in my classroom were terrible. I took contact paper from the Dollar Store and covered them. I also purchased bins and made label from a pin on Pinterest and used construction paper and made poster of resources needed in my AVID classroom.

I have pennants from colleges around my room. The canvas banner with my favorite quote, I got from Vistaprint for free, I just paid for shipping.

This is a set up of my classroom. I have white boards for my tables to conduct tutorials. I placed logos of different colleges above each table.