One of our goals as teachers at the start of every school year is to have the hallway bulletin boards ready before welcoming students back and I always get really excited about all the possibilities and directions I can take with this task.
Even though I get a lot of inspiration and a flood of ideas, I do like to stay consistent with my theme: impressionism art. For the 2018/2019 school year, my bulletin board was a recreation of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night:
This year, I took on Claude Monet. I’ve always admired his effortless brushwork, and his commitment to painting waterlilies in all the beautiful days and ways the sunlight hits them. I made my way over to the art room to collect the supplies I would need: construction paper and .. more construction paper.
It’s now proudly hanging on the hallway out side my classroom alongside this quote:
“Every day I cultivate my own garden. That is simply a metaphor for making sure you have the curiosity to learn something new every day. I’m constantly learning.”
