Classy Mascots
Posted by Sharon M. Tresino on 03 Apr 2009 | Posted in: Classroom Management, Classroom Routines, Teachers and Teaching
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Take a peek at my office. I’m surrounded by ducks. Are you wondering why I have a fondness for pond critters? Well, my class mascot was a big, fluffy duck named Puddles. And my students seemed to take pleasure in adding to his family. |
In addition to the fluffy critters who had their own special area of the room, I decked out the room with a duck theme. We had duck nametags, duck hall passes, and duck-themed journals. You name it, I probably had ducks on it! In hindsight, I might have gone a tad overboard (especially in the eyes of my coworkers) but my kindergartners loved it!
Do you have a class mascot? If so, do you tie him/her to a theme? I’d especially enjoy hearing about other teachers who have gone as “quackers” over their class mascots as I did. Maybe it was more of a lower-grades thing. How about it, upper-grades teachers? Do you have class mascots?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Sharon (and Puddles)
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One of our class mascots, Dakota the Cow, traveled around the USA last year from October-May. We kept in touch with what he was up to through e-mails from the schools he visited. We also had visits from 7 other class mascots! It was great fun!
I am a 1st grade teacher who also has a mascot. Mine are frogs. My classroom is FULL of them and I try to tie different themes, reading, behavior… anything that I can in to them. I painted my room blue for water and sky, my curtains are actually a shower curtain with frogs on it. Every year the kids and parents add to my collection. I just feel like it’s something that is special to me, that I bring to my students and they feel a part of that specialness.
I am a second grade teacher from Baxter Springs, KS. For several years, our mascot has been Twinkie the Kid. This is a plastic model of the Twinkie snack. Several of the students brought this in their lunch boxes –it holds the wafer inside. We have used it as our geography discovery partner. Twinkie and his twins have traveled with parents,students,colleagues and myself to Japan, Australia, Germany, Jamaica, Scotland,Italy,the Middle East and Africa. This summer he will travel with me to New Zealand and Mongolia. I create a Powerpoint when I return and the students decide “Where in the World is Twinkie?” Through these travels our students are exposed to many cultural aspects of people around the world.
Our preschool class mascot is a teddy bear. Each day one preschooler gets to take home Teddy, Teddy’s change of clothes, Teddy’s journal, and Teddy’s favorite book. The following day the preschooler tells us about the special visit with Teddy.
I teach four year olds in my church weekday program. I use owls as my theme. I have a large owl on the wall above the reading center and he holds a sign tha says “Who’s Reading?” I have several owl puppets that I use, also. My bulletin board has owl cutouts on it. When the children arrive in the morning, there is a tree outside in the hall with velcro on it it. Each child has an owl with their name on it and velcro on the back. They put their owl on the tree as a way of taking attendance. It also helps with name recognition. My helper chart has owls on it and the children have fun naming who each helper is during the day. There are 5 helpers each day (line leader, caboose, flag holder, calendar and weather). I have a lot of books that have owls in them. It is interesting to see the children’s reactions when they find a owl in the book. I have a very cute Christmas story about the baby in the manger, but it is told through the eyes of a Mama Owl and her baby. The baby asks a lot of questions about the baby. The children love it. I also have several owls around the room and an owl pillow in my reading center. I have received owls as gifts at the end of the year and each one has a place in my room. Children in the church and in our preschool call my room “The Owl Room”. At the end of the year I give each child a booklet with pictures taken during the year and the cover has an owl on it and the title says: “This year was a hoot!” I have been teaching here for 5 years and Each year I have been able to find more owls to use in my room. I even have a welcome mat that says “Who’s there?” Each day that the children have good behavior, they earn an “Owl dollar”. On the last day of school each week, the children use their dollars to get items from the treasure chest.
Hi,I am a second grade teacher in Dubai. I have a stuffed penguin which is given to the student along with the journal to carry it home in his/her weekend who scores highest points on his behavior chart in the class. They spend the weekend with this toy and draw the pictures and write about it whatever activities they do together. Next day they read in the classroom. I find this activity very motivating in reading and writing. It also helps them in maintaining discipline and healthy competition among them in the class.
I teach prek in a private preschool and our a classroom theme is Winnie the Pooh. I have two stuffed Winnie the Poohs–one is closer to the original version and the other is the modern day Pooh dressed in rainhat and coat. They sit in a child sized rocking chair in my books center. I chose this theme when I ordered Winnie the Pooh themed preschool skills workbooks for enrichment purposes. The children love doing their work and enjoy showing me what they are doing. Maybe next year I’ll use my favorite children’s characters–Sesame Street.
I teach 4th grade in Arizona and like to have a theme through out my room. Last year it was tropical since I grew up in Hawaii. This year I changed to a southwestern theme since we cover Arizona state history at our grade level. I have cowboy boot and barn-siding material on my bulletin boards, cowboy hats to mark our class library book spots, the kids earn “bronco bucks”, I have a growing collection of glass cowboy boots, etc. I put a cardboard cut out of a saguaro cactus and horse on my walls, too. On the first day of school the kids took pictures next to the horse and we named her “Sally” and she is our class mascot.
I teach kindergarten and I have used a frog theme for years! I too am known as the frog lady. I have tons of frogs and it always amazes me how many different frogs there are out there! I still have upper grade kids bringing me frogs! They never fail to make me smile!!
my students love frogs! i’ve started collecting them and didn’t realize how many different varieties there are!
i love the mailbox and i’m so glad i discovered its blog!
We have a school mascot at Chets Creek (K-5) that is a stuffed bear. He travels with students and then reports his travels on his own blog. It goes with our theme this year of “Around the World in 180 Days.”
I used Curious George as my classroom mascot. He was always “curious” to see what each student was up to over the weekend. Since I teach in Italy, the students often take trips to other European countries so we all could learn about and see pictures from all around Europe and the U.S. as well. Often times the students here at the DoDDS schools, students travel back stateside to visit with relatives due to illnesses, deaths or just as a rest. It has been a real treat getting to see what things George gets into with the kids.