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.

Log Cabin

We made a log cabin with a gian cardboard box, and toilet paper rolls.  I put it up in November for the Pilgrims.  In December, we decorated it to look like a gingerbread house.  Unfortunately, I am not allowed to put it up anymore due to fire codes.

Beehive door

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!!!

Flag

One year, we had a patriotic theme for our Grandparents' Day.  The students' handprints made the lines and the 50 stars had our students' pictures on them.  We  had a banner that said, "We love our country and our grandparents!"

Penguin bulletin board

This is by far one of my favorite bulletin boards that we have done!  It was huge!  His body covered the whole bulletin board, then we added the head!  After a study of penguins, each student wrote several facts about penguins on the baby penguins!  I don't know if you can tell or not, but the penguin is 3D.  We have learned after doing many 3D boards that it is easier to staple wads of paper to the board and then put the paper on top of it.