Singing For Joy

This is my December hallway bulletin board. Our charecter trait this month is Joy. I found the carolers in a December holidays book. For the kids I made copies that they could color and then paste to their handwriting page. For the big carolers I kept blowing them up on the printer until they were the space I needed. Then I colored and laminated them to use again. The students writing assignment was "something that brings me joy is...." Then they wrote about things that bring them joy, like reading to a little sister or spending time with family. I love my bulletin board trim too. I like to decorate with lights because it gives a Christmas feeling without going overboard. I have a small bulletin board so if I want to display students work I have to do it above their lockers. You can also see the locker tags I made which are from a bigger Christmas lights diecut. This is quite possibley my favorite bulletin board I have ever made.

Making Spirits Bright

Here is a cute idea for adding holiday decorations to your classroom for little to no money. I cut Christmas lights out of different colors of construction paper using a diecut. Then I taped them ,alternating facing up and down, on a book shelf in my room. I think it turned out great!

Something to Crow About

I should have taken a picture of the whole bulletin board too before I took it down but, for some reason, didn't do that. This was part of my October bulletin board. We don't celebrate Halloween at our school so I like to do something fall related without being too Halloween-y. I got the idea from the October/November Teachers Mailbox magazine. ( Not entirely sure on the year.) First I had the kids color a picture of a crow printable from the magazine. Then we talked about things they could be proud of. Each student got a 1/2 piece of handwriting paper that they wrote their sentence on. I put all the crows on a bulletin board that had an orange background and the CUTEST border printed with candy corn. I did this the first couple of years with my students and hadn't done it for awhile. I remembered why I loved it in the first place! Next year I will have to take a picture of the finished product.

Math Meeting Board

My math meeting board. I am slowly replacing all the pieces given to us by Saxon with something more attractive...and less yellow!

Hands Down, So Cute!

Another new purchase for this year. In the past I had sticky notes at each place. It did the trick but was not nearly as cute!

Welcome back to school bulletin board

After using the same bulletin board for the past 4 years I decided to get a new one this year, still in keeping with my fish/sea theme.

Welcome to a New School Year!

A new school year is often like New Years in that teachers set goals ( or resolutions) for the coming school year. You are viewing one of my goals for this school year. I am hoping to keep up with my blog more so than I have in the past! This is my fifth year teaching 2nd grade and I am very excited for this coming school year. I hope you are too!