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Positive quotes for your classroom

mariama
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Having walls that teach is an important part of your classroom. Every sign shouldn't be store bought. Sometimes your students will get more from signs that you make or that you let them make. I've found that having positive quotes on my walls is a great thing because when students are looking around their eyes fall on good stuff to read. Many times old students come back and tell me what their favorite quote was or that they miss the various quotes that I had up. Here are a few of their favorites:

"If you're sad, don't waste time. Life is too short. Turn over a new page, new start, new thoughts, new happiness." - Hannah M.

"Thinking positively will only take you to positive places." - Unknown

"Leave today with no regrets." - Unknown

"When no one believed in me, I believed in myself and achieved more than anyone thought possible." - Stephanie Saffe

"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress." - Epictetus

"Your thoughts become your choices, your choices become your habits, and your habits become your lifestyle. If you want to change your lifestyle, change your thoughts!" - Unknown

"Always be yourself! Everyone else is already taken." - Steph K.

"Don't join a gang! I'll tell you why...I knew when I joined that I'd make a thousand homies...But then I finally realized that I also made a thousand plus enemies." - David Lee

I googled "motivational quotes", "positive quotes", and "inspirational quotes". A whole variety of sites popped up. I got some of these quotes from a teen website. Print some of your favorite positive or inspirational quotes on pretty paper or have one of your artists make posters for them and put them up inside and outside of your classroom. I guarantee you'll get a good response from students and adults. Also, these quotes make good writing prompts. You can ask students to choose a quote from the wall and explain why they like it or how it ties into their lives. You can even ask them to choose which quote they'd refer to if they were having a conversation with the protagonist from the book/short story/poem that you're reading and why. Sometimes on gloomy days I'd look around my room and a quote would leap out at me and help me through my day.

01-22-2007 10:53 AM

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	Positive quotes for your classroom
mariama Visitor	Having walls that teach is an important part of your classroom. Every sign shouldn't be store bought. Sometimes your students will get more from signs that you make or that you let them make. I've found that having positive quotes on my walls is a great thing because when students are looking around their eyes fall on good stuff to read. Many times old students come back and tell me what their favorite quote was or that they miss the various quotes that I had up. Here are a few of their favorites: "If you're sad, don't waste time. Life is too short. Turn over a new page, new start, new thoughts, new happiness." - Hannah M. "Thinking positively will only take you to positive places." - Unknown "Leave today with no regrets." - Unknown "When no one believed in me, I believed in myself and achieved more than anyone thought possible." - Stephanie Saffe "Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress." - Epictetus "Your thoughts become your choices, your choices become your habits, and your habits become your lifestyle. If you want to change your lifestyle, change your thoughts!" - Unknown "Always be yourself! Everyone else is already taken." - Steph K. "Don't join a gang! I'll tell you why...I knew when I joined that I'd make a thousand homies...But then I finally realized that I also made a thousand plus enemies." - David Lee I googled "motivational quotes", "positive quotes", and "inspirational quotes". A whole variety of sites popped up. I got some of these quotes from a teen website. Print some of your favorite positive or inspirational quotes on pretty paper or have one of your artists make posters for them and put them up inside and outside of your classroom. I guarantee you'll get a good response from students and adults. Also, these quotes make good writing prompts. You can ask students to choose a quote from the wall and explain why they like it or how it ties into their lives. You can even ask them to choose which quote they'd refer to if they were having a conversation with the protagonist from the book/short story/poem that you're reading and why. Sometimes on gloomy days I'd look around my room and a quote would leap out at me and help me through my day.
01-22-2007 10:53 AM