End of the year Bulletin Board 2013

"We are falling for 2nd Grade!!"

I've had this idea since February and I have just been waiting patiently to use it!!! Our teenagers hosted a dinner at church for our senior members and our theme was "game night". We used some dominos for part of the decorations! I had made some domino placemats and decided I wanted to save them for school! (you never know where ideas will come from!) The 3-D dominos are macaroni and cheese boxes! I have thumb tacks glued to the bottom of them to make them stick out but I ended up hot gluing a few. On the dots of the big dominos, our students wrote, "I am excited about second grade because...." Love it!!!





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Halloween/grandparents bulletin board

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We made mummies for our grandparents! So cute! These were very easy to make with paper plates and the students just tore pieces of white construction paper.  (We found the idea on the Internet!)

End of the Year Bulletin Board

Well, this may be my new favorite bulletin board!!!  With only 30 days left in school, we decided to go ahead and put up our end of the year board.  We usually do something about going to second grade.  Thanks to Maddie (She is in the last picture), my class has been obsessed with Angry Birds this year, so we only saw it fitting to use them on the board!  I love the way it turned out too!  On the white pieces of paper, the students wrote "In 2nd Grade, I want to learn....".  I labeled the pigs as our principal and two second grade teachers.  Then the students made their own Angry Birds.  I gave them the basic shape and some extra construction paper.  I had pictures of Angry Birds projected onto the board for them to use as a guide.  The birds turned out so cute and they are so different, but you can definitely tell they are Angry birds!!  We used pipe cleaners on the back of the birds to make it 3D!  We had the board finished Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday morning, the kids went nuts!!  Priceless!!

The Polar Express

This is my MOST FAVORITE thing we have ever done!  The Polar Express is one of my favorie books, and we made it come alive!  As you can see, we started with the engine at one end of the hall.  Our principal was the conductor!  The kids loved that!  Then we made three cars, one for junior kindergarten, one for kindergarten, and one for first grade!  We added every child's picture to look like they were riding on the train!  You should have seen their faces when they saw the train for the first time...PRICELESS!!   Under each child's picture is a bell with student writing on it.  We also had a Polar Express Day!  The students wore their pajamas.  In the morning, we rotated between our six classes and each teacher had a different activity planned revolving around The Polar Express.  We focused on math skills, social studies, reading, etc.  One activity was, of course, reading the book.  After lunch, we watched the movie!  It was a fantastic day!  I wish I had a picture of one of the cars without kids in front of it, but I don't, sorry.

Christmas Decorations

You have probably seen this door on Pinterest!  My co-worker and I both had it on our doors and then we made the barn connect both of our doors.  We turned the childrn into reindeer with their handprints.  The writing on the bulletin board is an application to be one of Santa's reindeer!  They had to write why they thought they would make a good reindeer... really cute!  We also had a Reindeer Day!  We wore antlers and did reindeer activities all day!  It was a lot of fun!

Elephant 3D Bulletin Board

This was another one of my favorite bulletin boards.  Just seeing the kids' faces the first time when they saw it, made it all worth while!  The students wrote on peanuts, "I will never forget...."  Some of their answers were the sweetest things!

Pumpkin Patch Bulletin Board

Another Grandparents' Day bulletin board.  The students' pictures are on the leaves, and the students wrote why their grandparents were special.  We typed what they wrote and put it on the little pumpkins.

Tree Bulletin boards

The first picture was our first 3D bulletin board.  The apples had the students' pictures on them, and on the inside they wrote about why their grandparents were special.  In the second picture, we turned the apple tree into a Christmas tree.  The lights were made from their students' names.  They wrote on ornaments and the presents at the bottom.

Christmas Bulletin Board

Each child made a stocking to hang on the fireplace.  We made the fire to look 3D.  We also had a nice/naughty list. We put a few teachers on the nice list, but put our principal on the naughtly list!  Although we thought it was funny, some of the kindergartners got upset about it.  They just couldn't believe our principal would be on the naughty list, so we ended up marking it out and putting him on the nice list!!!

Another Grandparents' Day Bulletin Board

We did this one a few years ago.  We took pictues of all the boys with a jersey and helmet in a football stance and the girls all had pompoms and were in a cheering pose.  We also took pictures of our class on the football stadium cheering as the crowd.  The students had written why their grandparents were special.  We typed them out and put them on the footballs!

Grandparents' Day/Halloween Bulletin Board

Every fall we celebrate Grandparents' Day which is a huge deal where I teach, so we always do something special with our bulletin board for our grandparents!  Since it was in October, we incorporated the spiders and we read our students Charlotte's Web.  We do the spiders every year, but this is the first time we have put them on the bulletin board.  I made the giant spider web from glue and glitter and it says Our Grandparents are...  Each student made his/her on web and picked one word to describe his/her grandparents.  Earlier we had asked each student to make a scary face and we took their picture but they didn't know why!  The spiders are so cute, we leave them out all year long!

Valentine Bulletin Board

This was our Valentine Bulletin Board.  The Sweetheart box is 3D with some of the students' work behind it.  The students wrote Love is..... and basically had to describe what love meant to them.  This was some of the most amazing writing our kids had done all year long.  They were sooooo sweet!  The box is actually in the middle of our board.

Popcorn bulletin board

This was our bulletin board from the beginning of the year!  We love to to a lot of 3D bulletin boards!  The popcorn box is just a piece of posterboard that I colored.  I folded the sides so it would stick out from the bulletin board.  The popcorn pieces each have a child's name, and on the back is a folded pipe cleaner stapled to the board so they will stick out too!

March/Spring Bulletin Board

The students from both first grade classes helped make the rainbow.  It took about an hour to complete.  The students wrote "I am lucky because..."  on the gold coins.  Each student also decorated their on kite.