This next blog post was about a pretty simple topic, decorating a classroom. The blogger starts the post explaining her previous classroom set up. She used many different neon colors contrasted with black. Her students seemed to enjoy her classroom set up, but she worried that the many colors distracted her students. So she developed a system that color coded all of her different subjects. Orange was writing, green was science/history, pink was math, and yellow was reading. Now, she believed, it was less distracting for her students and it made it easier for both her and them to be organized. I think this is a good idea, as someone who is not very organized at my best and a complete mess at my worst anything that can help me is great. However, I have my doubts that a colorful un-color-coded classroom would be that distracting to students, especially 5th graders who should be old enough to not be distracted by something like that. So while I think this is a good idea, I don't believe it needed to be done.
Color Coding the Classroom
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