Pintrest Teacher Bloggers

I've been teaching Kindergarten (K) for three years now. There are aspects I truly love about K, but there are also aspects that I don't love. I like my end result but I think there is room for improvement. 

Looking to make some changes/overhauls in my teaching, I went looking for inspiration. I turned to the internet to see what other K teachers around the country were doing. 

And there I met the Pintrest Teacher Bloggers. 

The Pintrest Teacher Blogge

Their classrooms are immaculate, beautifully decorated and organized, and their lessons/projects are delightfully created with cute images and sweet fonts....and all of the lessons are available for purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers! (And some actually have stores where you can buy the decor!)

Now, I love Teachers Pay Teachers, because my classroom is not immaculate, beautifully decorated and organized and when I created a lesson/projects it tends to be very linear and handwritten with a sharpie. But I can go on this site and I can look like I am a Pintrest Teacher Blogger. 

And I love my Pintrest! I get ideas for organization, decor, anchor charts, and projects. 

These are all great resources that let me fake being a Pintrest Teacher Blogger, but I wasn't finding the inspiration that I needed. Because there is more to teaching than decor, organization, projects, and worksheets....and any teacher will tell you that. 

I wanted to dive in and be inspired by everything K. I checked out blogs that showed 5 year olds writing like Second Graders the first 3 weeks of school. Oh, really? Pictures of every child behaving and following directions....

These teachers remind me of images of the perfect housewife of the 50's, vacuuming in pearls and heels.

I'm so prepared and organized!

I like to think of myself as a good teacher but next to these teachers, I'm quite inept. 

So I've decided to embrace my role as an Inept Teacher Blogger. 

JUST like the teacher guide!

Like today, we built 2D and 3D shapes using marshmallows and toothpicks. And I posted a picture of one of my students building beautiful shapes, like right out of the teacher's manual! But I didn't take a picture of the marshmallow that was stabbed with 20 toothpicks. I should have in retrospect, because there SO MANY toothpicks...it really was a feat actually. That little boy was quite proud. 

Well from now on, I will show both sides of my classroom! The brilliant and the WTH! 

And maybe one day, a teacher looking for inspiration but not perfection will find my site and get one or two (or a hundred) good ideas that they want to try. Maybe other teachers will find this site and give me a great idea to try. 

I have nothing to sell but I will give credit when credit is due and send you over to other teacher's stores.

I've got big plans for next year and I will be heading over to the national I Teach K Conference in July this summer. 

Maybe one day I will be a Pintrest Teacher Blogger but given my preference of a blank paper and a black sharpie over cute fonts on my computer, probably not.