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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Everything Old is New Again...

Hello Buddies-

So last week I posted that I was moving from Fifth Grade to Third Grade this September and that meant saying GOODBYE to my very pretty and well loved Harry Potter Classroom Theme. After some mourning of the "end of an era" (that's what I have been calling it) it was time to start planning.

Step one was to pick a theme and some colors to go along with it. After much debate a theme was chosen and the colors were picked. I am happy to a announce that my new theme will be....

SUPERHEROES IN TRAINING

I'm super excited about the theme and if you follow us on Pinterest (if not, what are you waiting for) you've seen some of the SUPER ideas I have up my sleeve thanks to the wonderful people sharing their themes and ideas.

Now colors- well, I was replacing my *magical* blue, silver, and purple with a heroic red, yellow, and blue. That meant some painting, therefore making everything old new again...

This is what my shelves looked like during my Harry Potter theme.

The process begins

These were my heroic colors

Now- I'm lucky enough to have a phenomenal co-teacher who came in with her family to help paint. In one day we painted two metal shelves, a filing cabinet, my mailboxes (they were nine years old and UGLY), the top of my wall length shelves, and a small patio table I use during Writer's Workshop. Since the floors in my room hadn't been done yet I was free to be messy as the custodians were going to do my floor after the painting was done.

Here's some work in progress:

Painting Yellow over Grey was NOT fun at all.
Read: MULTIPLE COATS!

This cabinet was once purple!

This was after the first coat dried- There was a second coat applied the next day.

The chaos in progress. Here you can see the mailboxes we painted as well.

I'm SUPER (expect a ton of SUPER puns in the future) excited about my new theme and am embracing the change. If you have any SUPER ideas (see!) feel free to share below!

Up, Up, and Away!

Damien

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Damien's Made-it-Monday #2

Hello Buddies-

I am back with my Made-it-Monday as sponsored by 4th Grade Frolics, and I am happy to say that I have completed TWO items!

First is my classroom window unit shelves. When I inherited my room, and I say inherited because there have been a LONG line of people in it before me, the shelves were gross. But, I threw my stuff on it and never thought about it again, until I entered the blogging world. After being inspired by Schoolgirlstyle.com I painted my window unit. Take a Look:

See what I mean?

Not exactly gorgeous or magical!

So my co-teach and I got to work. Now my co-teach is FANTASTIC, there is no better word for it. So when the kiddos went home for the year-we went to work.

From "yucky" tan to *magical* silver.

The Finished Product!

The final product looked SOOOOOOOOO much better than it previously did. My teacher friends, still packing up their rooms, kept coming by and telling me how much better they looked- I AGREE! They fit in to my new color scheme-Silver, Purple, and Blue!

The problem... Now, my filing cabinet, which never bothered me before, looks terrible. Since it meets right up to my newly painted shelves, I couldn't have it looking like a terrible eye-sore.

Can you see where this is going?

So I got to work on that as well.

Don't you just LOVE it? It has inspired me to continue to paint a few other items to work with my color scheme for the upcoming year. Keep an eye on my blog to see what else I have covered in PURPLE and SILVER paint. I really love how it came out, especially the purple.

My last task is something I spruced up for my blogging buddy Kelly. Only she doesn't know about it yet (shhh! Don't tell her). This school of fish used to hang in our main office and no longer have a home. I quickly grabbed them for Kelly's ocean themed classroom and hope she likes the final result!