Last Days of School

Well it is the end of the school year and things are winding down. Not much learning is going on at this point because it is time for the end-of-the-year parties. This entry is just to note some observations.
The teachers are taking everything off the walls, both in the classroom and in the halls. The walls look very empty now and thee institutional look is back. I miss the color. One of my favorite things about schools is the student art work that covers the hall and classrooms. Some is cleaver, some strange and some quite good. In one of my schools (5th and 6th grade) The walls were filled with life size caricatures of a book the whole 6th grade was reading called The Watson’s go to Birmingham, The art work was very good. Another school had a medieval theme, with pictures knights and castles made from milk cartons lining the halls. And the High School-WOW, their halls were filled with self-portrait’s. Almost everything is taken down now, but once and a while you can still see something interesting. Today I was in a science 5th grade science room, I notice on one walls 5 posters; the two on the left were of a hurricane and a tornado. The two on the right were of an earthquake and a volcano. The one in the middle was a picture of the Whitehouse.