Teaching second grade, I love decorating my classroom to create a culture of learning and fun. This year’s theme is jungle monkeys. Each year we have to create a class name, and my students voted to make it Ms. Marshall’s Monkeys… very fitting. Each year before open house, I decorate my door, label my room so parents can find it, and set up my rainbow table with lots of information.

For my open house table, I have a newsletter introducing myself, you can see it in my other post, jitter glitter, a sign-in sheet, a volunteer form, and a supply list with apples that have other supplies on them parents can grab if they’d like to donate something to the class. I also have labels for each item.

Here’s what my door looked like my first year teaching. I used tissue for seaweed and had an underwater theme. My students love finding their names on my door.

I’ve seen superhero, emoji, comic, zoo animal, sports themes and more for the classroom. Looking ahead to next year, I was thinking “Second Grade is a Ball,” and doing sports. What themes have you seen or used in your classrooms?