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YEE
HAW!
I'm
saddlin' up for a new year and am anticipating a boot-stomping
good time with my new theme. For the 2008-2009 year
I've decided to "Go Country!" Since we won't
be "moseying back to school" until after
Labor Day this will be a work in progress page. Here
are some photos of what I was able to put together
before the summer vacation started. Feel free to borrow
any of my ideas for your classrooms, but please cite
this source and provide a link if you post pictures
to your website.
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| This
is Baxter the Bear who has been with me forever. He gets a new
'outfit' each year. The pillowcases behind him also change each
year. I bought the fabric at Walmart and my mom was kind enough
to sew them for me. |
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| I'm
most excited about this display. In general I always found birthday
psoters to be a bit silly since I never referenced them. I wasn't
going to do one this year, but thought of a way to give it a
bit more meaning. We do a lot of work with line plots in 3rd
grade. The bottom lists the months. When school starts I plan
to take a photo of each student holding a paper with the number
relating to their birthdate on it (example: a July 23rd birthday
will hold the number 23). We will then create a line plot and
use it as a lesson. |
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| The
long board reads, "Best in the West." I created a
sherriff's badge for each student using Photoshop. It has their
name in the center. I will use this board to display great work. |
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This
is our group area. I'm super-excited about the benches. I
had been wanting something exactly like that and was thrilled
when a colleague was going to get rid of them. (Thanks Jill!)
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| I
actually paper-pieced this poster and had it laminated. Now
we can write the daily menu on it with dry erase marker. |
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| I'm
a huge fan of Debbie Diller's Literacy Workstation books and
this is my system for managing them. The pocket charts are filled
with task cards for what they may do in each center. |
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| This
is a close up of the Math Vocabulary Round-Up board. I love
the real rope...3D elements are too fun. We'll be adding math
vocab words as they are introduced. |
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| Sorry
about the bright glare, but you get the idea. Each child is
assigned a number and they use these pockets to write book recommendations
to one another. This is directly above my classroom library. |
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| The
"Word Herd" board will be the focus for all of our
word study items. Each year we "retire" words like
big and fun and the students must use more impressive synonyms
in their writing. For a country twist I switched to "Words
That Have Been Put Out to Pasture" I'll add word cards
to the cow (or is it a bull?) when needed. Above the board is
my word wall. I normally divided
one of my white boards into a word wall and love the ease
of adding and erasing words. However, since I keep a math word
wall as well as charts for content area words I decided I could
do with less space. I created it to fit the space above my boards
and had each strip laminated so that I can attach word cards
with rubber cement and peel them off easily. |
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| I'm
not sure why I took such a close-up and not the whole board,
but this is my writing board. |
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