I first read about the idea of creating a “Mosaic Wall” on Liz Tamanaha’s blog. This post explains how you can make your own.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how I want to set up my classroom this year and about the activities I want to do with my students. In the process of designing my own Mosaic Wall, which I am calling my Inspiration Wall, I came up with a neat way to decorate my room AND it gave me an idea for a first day of school activity with my students.
First, some views of my inspiration wall ( before I actually hang it up in my classroom):
I was really impressed with Jasmine. She didn’t bother the pictures once while I was laying them all out. She was more interested in sleeping.
I’ve come to realize that I am most inspired by my personal experiences while traveling so my Inspiration Wall contains photos of some of the places I’ve been in the past year: London, France, Portugal, Spain, Prague, Washington, D.C., Disney World, Bahamas, PAX East (Boston), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alaska, and Hershey, PA.
Here’s a close-up on the individual squares.
One of my favorite blogs is written by Ali Edwards. She designed Photoshop brushes with some of her favorite creative mantras which happen to be mine as well. I used a black square with a phrase every so many images or so to break up the pictures.
Tomorrow the husband and I will be out early to Staples and Office Depot so I can get free swag (it’s the annual free for all otherwise known as Teacher Appreciation Day). and I plan to find something that will work to stick all 60 of these photos to my cinderblock walls so they won’t fall off or droop mid year.
In another post I’ll describe how I plan to use a similar activity with my students on the first day of school – I’m still working out the details.
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