Classroom Cuteness

Kiss me if I'm wrong about this, but aren't classroom bulletin boards thrilling?! I don't know about you, but nothing floats my boat quite like an elementary school bulletin board. The colored butcher paper, the little scalloped boarders, the punny titles... Whoo-ee!

Well if classroom decor is your cup of tea, grab a mug.

In the fall, our hallway theme was "Cara's Busy Bees". I had made the bees, so they were ready to go on the first day of class. The bodies are yellow and black card stock, the antennae and legs are black pipe cleaners, and the wings are waxed paper.

In the winter, each student's bee was replaced with a snowflake that they made themselves. I also made giant 3-D snowflakes that hung from the light fixtures in the room, so we had our own little winter wonderland.

In the spring, each student made their own butterfly and tissue paper flower, which were displayed in the hall next to their name.

In our district the 100th day of school is in February, right around Valentine's Day, so this project was perfect. We brainstormed a big list of things that we love about our school, and then each kid had to select four of their own. They had to write them in complete sentences, have them approved by me, then rewrite them on a red heart. They were SO sweet, and kids from all over the school would stop and read them as they walked by. Awesome project!

We did an activity in class that asked kids to state a meaningful connection between themselves and a classmate. "We both like the color blue," was not sufficient; students were asked to think deeply and critically to find a significant connection. What they came up with was really beautiful. I wrote down the connections as they stated them, and then I created this display as a visual representation of the activity.

This board changed frequently throughout the year to display students' artwork. This was our study of Monet and Impressionism.

Posters I made describing the writing process.

Said is dead. We want Said to rest peacefully, so we brainstormed words we could use in Said's place. All the words under the headstone were brainstormed by my students, the little geniuses. :)

Measurement was a tough math unit. We created this bulletin board together, and had it posted in the room for easy reference.

We did a lot of work creating mental images for poetry, and writing poetry that evokes a specific mental image. Shel Silverstein is my hero.