Classroom Heat

[chalknpens]

I wrote this thread yesterday, but it never made it to the forum. Maybe I just hit preview and never submit. So I'll try again.

What do you do to help yourself stay cool - many teaching in brick buildings with no air conditioning and small windows for ventilation - even older buildings that once had beautiful arched windows now have smaller openings to conserve heat in the winter.

When I taught second grade, the room mothers organized a plan that would have some one volunteer to bring popsicles in after lunch on a very day.

What do you do to keep yourself and your kids cool?

[Shashi]

The classroom I am in this year has a very good A/C system, thank goodness. And yet, I still get overheated because when I first arrive in my room in the evenings (I teach night class in a private college), the day class has the thermostat turned up on 76, which is way too hot for me! And then, when I turn the temperature down, I have students griping because they are too cold. (I'm NEVER too cold!) I finally told them to bring a jacket to class, because I have got to be cool.

I'm glad it's June. Just three more months to September and cooler weather! (I hope!)

[zilphia01]

spray bottle

When it gets really hot and miserable here, I fill a spritz bottle with water, and mist my face and arms and legs. The kids tried it, and loved it too, so I bought more spritz bottles and keep them around the room.

not a great solution, but better than nothing.

good luck