My Little Art Room
I am a recent graduate from Middle Tennessee State University. I majored in Art Education. Teaching art has always been something that I have wanted to do. I am so happy that the time has finally come to do just that!My family just recently moved from Tennessee to Hoover, AL. My husband and I have a son that will be starting kindergarten in August (tear*), and I have been blessed with a job as the art teacher for a private school in downtown Birmingham.So many wonderful changes for our family!
My first day on the job is August 1st, with students starting on the 8th. I will be teaching kindergarten-8th grade. Wow!! I have a lot of planning ahead of me! While I am VERY grateful for the job I have been blessed with, and the opportunity to touch a wonderful group of students (do not let that be forgotten that I feel this way)...I have also been blessed with the TINIEST classroom imagineable! (eeek!) :) So to begin my journey in the Blogging World, I want to take you into my classroom, and the changes that I am putting it through. :) My classroom may be small, but the creativity that will be inside is NOT.
My room has NO closets. Hear that? I do not have an art supply closet. The picture above shows all of my storage space. Time to kick an organizing OCDness gear (that I am not sure I have) into motion!!
All of the art supplies were brought downstairs from another classroom and put into my classroom for me to go through. While I was so very excited to see that I had more than I thought I would, I was also very overwhelmed by this. Phew!
Heres a picture of the room during the 'going through all the junk' process. The back wall has 3 large windows...thats pretty neat.
This picture was taken from outside the classroom door..so yeah, its a small, sweet room.
After going through the 'mess' and getting most of it out of my way, my first task was to paint all of the tables. I couldn't stand how dirty, multi colored, and just plain messy they looked. After I painted them, I covered the legs (because you guessed it..I didnt even like the LEGS of these poor tables) with duct tape that has a paint splatter design. Kind of cute, I think.
OK- so this is the room at its most recent state. I have figured out a way to arrang the tables that will fit the amount of students I should have in any given class, and a place for my rug (for reading to the younger students.) I have also started one bulletin board and a little bit of decorations. Looks like Ill be going with a polka dot theme. Maybe.
Now, what this picutre doesn't show is the wall that has the board (and still a lot of other junk), and my storage wall. When I get it all done, I will be posting more pictures.
I have been pretty hard on this small room, but deep down I know that a lot of art making magic is going to happen in here. Cannot wait to fill the room with smiling faces!
can't wait to see the finished room! make sure to add the "following" gadget so i can follow your blog. :)
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