My Blank Canvas

Paul Cezanne once said that "it's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas!" and he was correct. After 1,150 kms and 13 hrs and 35 minutes of travelling I was standing in the middle of my classroom, my blank canvas.

Ideas about how you can place desks and organise resources come flooding into your brain....again and again and again! Instead of organising a plan of attack I jumped straight in! In hindsight I now know that that was probably not the best idea as I found myself sitting in the middle of the room perched on piles of books, covered in dust and looking like I had attempted to build a fortress out of the various cupboards and bookshelves!


However, through the haze of dust I was able to pull myself together, put on my Organised Teacher hat and begin to make sense of the chaos.

And the result was satisfying....

One resource that I have come across has been:

Happy Birthday balloons
I altered this slightly and added a 'birthday teddy' to hold the balloons - great for colour and also the students love to compare their birthdays and ages with each other! I laminated each balloon and wrote on with whiteboard marker the student's name and d.o.b!
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/1461-1465/sb1462.html