Inside Bell's Brain

This month's #2getherwearebetter linky is all about bulletin boards .  Seems fitting since most of us are back to school or are heading there very soon.   I just wrote a post about my new welcome bulletin board a few days ago ( read it here ), so I decided to share my interactive bulletin board with you in this post.  Last year, I wanted to do something to serve as a reminder of all the goals we were accomplishing throughout the year.  I wanted it to be something in which my students could take ownership and that their parents would enjoy seeing when they came to visit us.  I also wanted to address some language goals and incorporate technology , so I finally found a way to bring all those concepts together. With our class timeline bulletin board, we can track the sequence of things we do all year long.  This helps my students with sequencing and with understanding how a timeline is constructed.  We also made audio QR codes to prin...

Back to school usually means new bulletin boards , and I'm stoked that I got my new one finished this week.  I was really sweating it since I saved it until the end of summer to do!  (Yikes!)  Here's a look at the finished product !   Let's review ...this is what I had.  And it was good.  It served us well for a long time, and my students loved pointing out their names (and their siblings' names) on the owls' bellies.  Of course, I still love owls , but it was time for a change that reflected my style now .  I started with some glossy fadeless black bulletin board paper , a set of tissue poms , and some totes adorbs new scalloped chalkboard border , all of which I scored on a shopping trip to the Parent-Teacher Store earlier this summer for about $20.    I used this paper pack from Hobby Lobby to create my letters because I couldn't quite find what I had in mind. I used my Cricut and my Jubile...