So today's blog post is a quickie about how I spruced up one of the bulletin boards in my classroom. To the right of my calendar, there is a bulletin board that I wanted to be our Focus Wall. Our Focus Wall would show our learning objectives for each subject and display the letter, number, and sight words we were currently working on. Well, the problem with that was I had literally 2 days to decorate my room before the start of school, and other tasks took priority. So my beautiful focus-wall-to-be turned out to be a sad, sad bulletin board with 6 pieces of laminated card stock on which I wrote our learning objectives.
It.
Was.
Pitiful.
In fact, I don't even have a picture of it. For 100-ish days of school, I looked at that failed focus wall and LOATHED it. So, last week, I decided to stop loathing it.
I took my thumb tacks and clothespins and glue gun and made my way to Michael's. I found these scrapbooking accessories on super-sale and made them mine. :)
I assembled the clips like this:
First, I glued a thumb tack to the back of a clothespin.
Then, I glued the scrapbooking tag/speech bubble and glued it to the front of the clothespin.
I wrote a student's name on the front with chalk, and voila! It took me about 30 minutes to make a set of 24, so I would say this was a pretty quick project.
This is what the clips look like on the bulletin board:
And this is what our All Star Work wall looks like with actual all star work on it:
I love how this turned out, and I can now look at that board without cringing!
Just to clarify, my one friend doesn't have a piece of work up because I took this pic the first day I put the board up (I was just a little excited haha) and he was absent that day. All of my students are all stars. :)
How do you show off student work in your classroom? Let me know with a comment or picture below!
