"I WILL" Olympics 2012

Excuse the mess on the table. =)

While I admit that I did not get to decorate and do as much as my mind had wanted to.. it sure was a fun idea!!  Tomorrow will be our "Medal Ceremony" and each child will be getting there little Gold medals.   However, today I wanted to post the photos of the room as well as ramble on about what we did all month. 

In addition to the photo above is the another angle of the smaller room that we use for snack and sometime lesson and fine motor activities. 

My darling husband next to the Olympic ring wall.

Our Leader Board

 I admit there is much missing here.. I never got around to adding the scripture "...I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded..." 1 Nephi 3:7 to that blank space above the leader board. Oops! The leader board has each nursery child's name and a column for the "event" aka lesson.  After each lesson a corresponding smiley face sticker was placed.  I was very conflicted about marking everyone's or just the ones that were there...as you can see I ended up marking everyone.  The half circles on the left listed the event/lesson by it's corresponding color. I hope that made sense.
The lessons were  I Will Be.. thankful, say "I'm Sorry," Share, Love Others and Obey.  They are in the "Behold Your Little Ones" manual that is used for the nursery class.

My son's addition to the decorations; olympians.

 Normally when I decorate the nursery, my children are in school but it's summer break. Peter-Leo (my son) wanted to help so I tasked him to make the olympic rings out of tissue paper.  He tried cutting and cutting and the shape was never right. But he kept getting the shape you see to the left of the bathroom door.  He said it looked like people and he wanted to make them olympians.  It was a great idea.
Our normally undecorated shoe/paper holder was decorated with shoes cut outs that I purchased at our local dollar store that had each child's name written on them. I thought it went with the theme nicely!

The main/larger room was pretty simple. I added the Olympic rings (which should of had the scripture quote underneath it as well... but I just ran out of time. sorry.)  And of course the same balloon and stars hanging from the ceiling as the smaller room. While the smaller room's chalkboard had a leader board, this room's chalkboard was decorated with those medal winner blocks. 

You may notice the small baggie on the upper left hand side of the poster, it is filled with gold paper circles with each child's name written on it.  These gold medals/name tags have velcro on the back and attach to a poster (attached to the back of the door to the left of the chalkboard) decorated with the Olypmic Rings.  The purpose is to have them attach their medal to the Olympic Rings as a "Check in." Most of the little ones like doing it.  Later we move those medals to the Helper Chart.  

Again Olympic Rings on the wall in the main room.  That long rectangle white blur on the left side of the cabinets is the "Helper's Chart" when we attach the medals of those that are there that day to simple tasks/jobs like Cup Carrier,Snack Carrier, Music Helper,  Rug Person, Opening Prayer, etc. 

I know that children have really enjoyed the new decorations and the theme.  I know tomorrow they will love getting their little gold medals! I will try to take a couple photos and post them.   

many wows and woes,
Michelle