I love the new Carson Dellosa lady bug and flowers BB set. I teach kindergarden and am thinking about using it for next year. I want a theme that can last all year and that I can really incorporate into our everyday activities. Does anyone have any ideas?
How about a "garden" theme? I did it one year and used lots of sunflowers and bugs. I bought a small tent at Target that was very colorful and had butterflies and ladybugs on it that my students used to read in.
I also made a very cute birthday display using a planter box filled with some of that green foam and spanish moss on top. I bought birthday pencils and used a flower die-cut. I wrote their name and birthday on the flower and hot glued it to the eraser part of the pencil. Then stick all the flower pencils in the planter box and you have "Blooming Birthdays".
For my behavior system, I covered a BB in cute yellow fabric with little bees. I used a card system that year, but each card was actually a different color flower that they had to change. The title was "Be on Your Best BEEhavior".
My word wall was called "A Garden of Growing Words", which was very fitting as we added new words each week and it grew as the year went on.
Although I did this theme a few years ago, you might still want to have a look at the Dollar Tree for cute "bug" stuff. I found some very cute ladybugs and dragonflies that I used to hang from my ceiling with some clouds. I also found some fake sunflowers that I "planted" in some pots using the green foam stuff again to stick them in to give my room more of a garden feel.
Good luck. I hope my ideas help you out a bit.
Deb
Yes I did keep my theme up all year long, as I do with all the themes I create. I think you spend so much time coordinating your whole classroom at the beginning of the year that you almost have to keep it going throughout the whole school year.
As far as holidays are concerned, I have different things I hang up from the ceiling that go with each holiday and I have my students make art projects to hang up either from the ceiling or in the windows. At Christmas, we also always put up a Christmas tree too. I also have one big bulletin board in the hallway that I change for the holidays. I also change the way my classroom door is decorated for the holidays. I keep all the other bulletin boards in my classroom the same all year long to match our theme.
Thank you Deb! I posted on the 2nd grade site for help with a new theme - possibly garden - and then I found this page.
I love your ideas, especially the behavior chart idea of the bees going to a different color flower. I have used bees on the beehive for my behavior chart in the past, but I'm doing flowers next year. Thanks!
I use a Camp Kindergarten Theme. I use Carson Dellosa backpacks on their hooks in the hall, My weekly letter home is "This week at camp we..., or we need these supplies at camp this week. I put up my Christmas tree when school starts and just change the ornaments to fit the theme or season. The tree fits into the camp theme. I haven't used it all year but I think you could. Good Luck!!
Lucky Ladybugs
For behavior you can cut out leaves and place velcro ladybugs on them...the goal is to keep the ladybugs on the leaves...it is a positive way to do behavior.
Good luck!
Cute ideas in here! I did ladybugs last year and I am going polka dots this year so that I can keep some of my ladybug stuff.
A real picket fence is really cute in the reading center.
I bought it at the hardware store and painted it white. I bought different flower vines throughout the year to put around it.
(Ex. Fall leaves and pumpkins in the fall)
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