A detail makes a difference!

When I give my students a little thing on their birthday such as a cute pencil or a nice pen, I always put on it a detail! Now, because of the World Cup, I'm giving a "prize" for the ones who guess the results of the Brazilian games. Take a look!

World Cup Mural!

As in June all we hear is about the World Cup Games I decided to decorate my mini school with the theme! I got some nice information at Fifa site and I also printed some images from Google. I used soccer ball images (I got copies from them because I'd neeed many) to decorate the higher part of the wall and I loved the result! I used the ones which were left to decorate some objects and other parts of the room.

I love school folders!

If you want to keep your work place organized and not spend too much money on that, make use of school folders! In my mini school I use them for many things: keeping extra activities related to each book, song lyrics, and also pictures! The cool thing is that they are also part of your decoration so you can buy them in colors that are gonna match your teaching area. As my mini school is basically white, red and blue, I always buy my folders in the same colors so that they organize my space and decorate it as well!!

Welcome!

The simplest "welcome" rug in front of your room/school door is enough to transmit your students the idea of being in a kind of an "American territory". I bought two, a red and a blue one, so I can replace one while the other is being washed. Where did I get them? Guess! At a R$ 1,99 store, but they cost a little more:only R$ 8,00 each!

A globe as usual!

Thinking about a school and not thinking about a globe is really difficult, isn't it? A simple globe can kind of decorate a small place and it has everything to do with the environment! This one is small, and I placed it right next to my mini school CD player because I wanted to have something blue on my white shelf. The best part: I paid only R$ 1,99 in this one! Really!

Some extra (and cheap) seats!

If you need some extra seats you can definitely use a couple of "puffs" (I really don't know how to say this in English, do you?) and have some more students sitting in your reception/classroom area, too! Those ones are small (you can get bigger ones if you prefer) and I bought them for R$39,90 each. Teens love it!

A "non-Portuguese" sign!

A cheap and easy way to put a "non Portuguese" sign on the wall is make one using simply cardboard, glue, scissors and a related image from Google. I've made mine and placed it right on the entrance wall. Take a look!