The Common Room

I was inspired by the Gryffindor Common Room. The chandelier is lit by battery operated tea lights. Our class house-elves' favorite job is to lower the chandelier to turn the candles on and off each day.

 

I think Ron must have decorated the notice board, hence the prolific Chudley Cannons paraphernalia. 

Diagon Alley

The Knight Bus

The price sheet list all of the stores and the prices for everything that is for sale. 

Diagon Alley

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Honeydukes

Slug & Jiggers Apothecary

There are twelve potions that the students may buy. The rest are for decoration. Each potion does something different. For example, the Polyjuice Potion allows a student to switch seats with someone else for a day, including me. The Invigorating Elixir allows the entire class to have an extra 10 minutes of recess. None of the students know what the potion's effect will be, until they buy it. Several of them are very curious as to what the Felix Felicis potion will do, but they will have to save up to find out.

Other Diagon Alley Shops

Gringotts Wizarding Bank 

All of my students have their own bank vault page where I keep track of their accounts. On their first day at Hogwarts they randomly selected a key to a vault. The vaults all belonged to famous wizarding families and have been passed on to whomever owns the key. The students now own the key, so they get to inherit the vault and keep whatever was left inside. So, for example one student choose the key for vault #713. This vault belonged to Nicolas Flamel and contained 10 galleons. 

Flourish and Blotts

Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions

Quality Quidditch Supplies

Eeylops Owl Emporium

Knockturn Alley

Magical Details

I told my students that they were going to fly on broomsticks. They kept asking how and making guesses involving harnesses, giant fans, and jumping off buildings. I didn't say a word until we got outside to the seesaw. I pointed at it and they all started laughing hysterically. Each student got on and the rest of the class pushed down on the other end to lift them up. I took pictures of them in the air and made sure that you couldn't see the seesaw in the photos. I sent all of the parents a picture of their child flying on the broom and being sorted after the first day. It was a huge success!

My students came up with the idea of making quills. Aren't they amazing? I love seeing what they can come up with on their own.

My classroom is right next to the bathrooms. 

I couldn't help but add my own special touch. 

Moaning Myrtle makes an appearance in both of the bathrooms. She has surprised and scared several people. It's funny because when people visit our classroom my students insist that they check out the bathroom too.

 It's helpful to note that these bathrooms are upstairs in the upper school hallway. I would never put a sign like this in a bathroom used by the younger students for fear that they would take it literally. 

 This sign is on a door to a storage closet in the hallway. 

 I thought I'd include a picture of my husband and his classroom, which is right across from mine. 

I thought it would be fun to show you the stark contrast in our decorating taste.  He enjoys my little world I've created for my students, but prefers "simplicity." He teaches high school and AP math and science by the way. 

I later snuck into his classroom and decorated his bulletin boards while he was away.  Then I got a bit carried away and decorated the school science lab and the rest of the hallway from my classroom to the library. There was just so much white empty space...

Notice I was able to sneak a little color onto his bulletin boards.

 So above is a little bit of decorating I did in the science lab. 

 Bulletin board outside my classroom. 

This is the House cup Award my students receive if their house wins. It's free to download on Teachers Pay Teachers.