Our school has chosen a space theme. We choose a different theme for our school's state testing each year. Any suggestions would be great for this school theme. Thanks!
The picture only shows a small part of the board, but I thought it might give you an idea. I cover a big wall in the hallway with it. I blew up a picture of an astronaut on poster board and cut out the face. I then took pictures of each child behind the cutout. Then I put their pictures up like they were floating in space. lol
I do a space unit everyyear and I thought you might like this picture. The planets hanging down were made by my students using balloons, newspapers, and glue water. Then we spray paint them.
I did the same thing as teachntx with my students' pictures as an astronaut, butI just bought the astronaut notepad at our teacherstore and cute out the face. I put their picture in it on my door with a caption that said, "3rd grade..What a Blast!" They loved it! I used black paper and put a large rocket on it with the astronaut pics around it.
I did a space theme last year. I had the following bulletin boards: "Work that is out of this world" for my student's work; "Check out these future scientist" with pictures of my students doing different science activities; "Blast off with a good book" for our schoo's required reading program-the students decorated their own space shuttle with their name. Then we put them up on the board with the planets. Every time they passed a book, we moved their space shuttle "pass" a planet. For all of the boards I used black fabric with a silver boarder and glow in the dark stars.
Over my computer area I had a sign that said Lauch into cyberspace. My library had moon chairs in them and we had a lava lamp and mini space shuttles on top of the book case. The sign over the library said "NASA headquaters..Reading is essential". Also each of my chalk boards had a name. Flight Plan-daily schedule, Special Training-character ed board, Mission Control-Objectives and standards, Training-homeork board.
For jobs, I made simple badges with the job title on one side and the job description on the other. I had teams of 4 and they had to chose a space science name. In their groups that all had a job: Mission Specialist-materials manager, Pilot-group reporter, Co-Pilot-group recorder, & Computer Specialist-paper monitor.
Other ideas I had but didn't get to were Astronaut of the Month for student of the month; Our vocabulary is blasting off-word wall; We're blasting off to a stellar year-welcome board with students names in stars or space shuttles.
I've got to pull up my pictures from my other computer, but I hope you got some ideas from this.
lol, I am amazed at how we go the hard way sometimes. Weezer's idea of just putting their picture behind a cut out sounds much easier with the same result. lol
I teach 2nd grade and am planning to do a space theme. Oriental Trading has the blow up planets. They are pretty cheap ( I think $14.) for a set. I am planning on hanging these from the ceiling. I wonder what the advantage is to using the glow in the dark stars? Another saying for a bulletin board could be "Shoot for the Stars".
I once decorated the door with "Third Grade is Out of the World" and stuffed a big earth on the side of the door. The back ground was black. I let the students paint styrofoam balls cut in half to look like the planets. I taught older students so it was part of a research project. Then I attached the planets to the door. It came out really cute and the kids felt ownership for it. I will have to look for a picture.
Thank you teachntx, i loved ur board. it was reall wonderful. I hav just started teaching in Africa and wanted some ideas for different topics. now i know where to look for all the help. thank you.......................
Thanks for the sweet comments. You could also get a big box (refrigerator) and make a big Space Shuttle for the reading center. Cut out a door, add a bean bag and a student could sit in it to read.
I did a cute board titled, "Looking for a "Space" to read?" I took pictures of my students reading on the school bus, playground, baseball field, in the principal's office, and other places, and I posted them on the board with stars and planets.
06-19-2008, 08:14 PM
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