Door Decorating Contest

[Marcia Norris <mnorris@ISGROUP.NET>]

Well, here's what I've decided...for better or worse.  I'm lucky, because
I actually have 2 doors to decorate...the office I share with a colleague
has a door, and she has no interest in decorating it!!! Yay!!

WARNING:  this idea is difficult to picture, but I sketched it out, and
it looks really cool.

"A Partridge in a Pair Tree"  On the door, place a huge poster-board
tree.  The title, "A Partridge in a Pair Tree" is on top, kind of rounded
into a semi-circle.  For ornaments, I'll cut our pear shapes.  The
students will think of word pairs (homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, rhymes)
and write them on their pear shapes.  The top "star" on the tree is a
picture of the Partridge family bus.  Get it...Partridge...Pear (pair)
tree?   VERY CORNY, but David Cassidy would say (sing) "I think I love
it, so what am I so afraid of....it's a door she can be proud of..."

For the other door, I'll be a little more serious...I'll put a snow
scene, trees, night sky.  The title will be "Let there be peace on Earth
(on top)...and let it begin with us"  (on bottom)  I'll let my home base
students research different ways to say "Peace" or "Peace on Earth" in
different languages.  These will be written on the stars, the trees, etc.

I don't know if we'll win, but I'm sure we'll have fun!

Thanks again for all of your great suggestions!!!

Marcia
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Marcia M. Norris
Teacher, Language Arts
Suwannee Middle School
Live Oak, FL
mnorris@isgroup.net

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