Bulletin Boards
This is a bulletin board that I keep up all year long.  On the pockets are names of jobs that the students can do in the classroom, such as, door holder, line leader, calendar person, chair manager, messenger, caboose, and shoe tying manager.  I switch out their names once a  week so that everyone has a chance to participate.  The students really look forward to Monday to see what job they get to do!  This gives them a sense of responsibility in the classroom.
This is our Calendar area where we sing the days of the week, and months of the year.  We graph the weather, add a straw for every day in our hundreds chart, count to 100 with the number line sometimes by 5's or 10's in different voices (mama bear's voice, or goldilock's voice etc).  The student who is our Calendar person for the week gets to ask the questions and put the date on the calendar.
I got this Bulletin Board idea from The Mailbox Magazine.  On the first day of school, the students colored themselves on a paper doll and cut it out. Then they wrote their name on a shape cutout. This enabled me to observe their fine motor skills and see who could write their name.
This is an interactive bulletin board that I used with rhyming words.  The students wrote a word that rhymed with pig on their little pig and we posted it on the bulletin board.  The students loved this becuase they could read all the different words they made.
During a plant unit, I put some lima beans in plastic baggies so the students could see how a plant grows.  They could see the seed through the baggies and the roots when it started to grow.
This interactive bulletin board was used to help students read their color words.  I labled the white tags with a color word and hung them on thumb tacks. The students matched the word with the colored bug.
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