Mrs. Goff's Pre-K Tales: A Whole Year of Bulletin Boards

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

A Whole Year of Bulletin Boards

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I love both putting together bulletin boards and looking at other teachers' bulletin board ideas. When my computer was stolen last spring I lost all the pictures that I had not printed or backed up. That really is the most horrible feeling! Today I found a pile of photos that I had taken a couple of years ago of some of my bulletin boards. I decided to scan the photos and put them on my blog (so at least they can't be lost or ruined). I added the few pictures of bulletin boards (or walls since I don't have many bulletin boards in my classroom) from this year that weren't lost. I hope you can find some good ideas.

September

I am using Barbara Gruener's book What's Under Your Cape to teach character with superheroes. I took a photo of each child with a mask on for this cute board.

Students' pictures and an About Me form that we filled out on the first day are on this board. The kids also decorated the first letter in their name the first day.

Self-portraits. Read more about this wall of smiling faces here.

Photos were added to the stars. See more about my classroom setup here.

10 Apples Up On Top. See more apple ideas here.

Green was done with marble painting on day 1. On second day, children cut out the tree (I drew the shape), glued top and trunk pieces on blue paper and then used pencil eraser dipped in paint to add apples.

This is a description of the apple smiles that we made with apples, peanut butter and mini marshmallows.

October

5 Little Pumpkins (we used popsicle sticks to make fence and then drew faces on orange circles)

Haunted House, Haunted House, Scary as can be! How many spooky things do you see?

pumpkin glyphs

monster glyphs. See more monster ideas here.

November

I always do a big unit on The First Americans

The labels on the board always start "Some or Many Native Americans." For example, "Some Native Americans lived in teepees made from animal skins."

November Words

turkeys made with coffee filters

Our Thankful Quilt

Thankful Poems. Read more about these here.

December

The bricks were sponge painted, the wreath was collaboratively made with scrunched pieces of tissue paper and the flames were made by squishing paint between folded pieces of paper (like you do for the symmetry lesson:)

gingerbread glyph

The children used paper and scissors and were told to make the same design on both mittens...harder than it sounds:)

January

New Year's Resolutions written on party hats

Animals in Winter

The children wrote about the snowman they created.

Martin Luther King's Birthday.

I want to follow in the footsteps of ___________because__________.

February

100th Day Self Portraits (from Finally in First)

100th day 20 high fives

Valentines Day

"_________ is a good friend because_______"

Math Words. See more about this bulletin board here.

Donosaurs (mainly from paper plates)

March

April

See more mud activities here or here.

muddy footprints led to this fun poem

Egg Books about oviparous animals. See more about oviparous animals here.

May

Students wrote about something they were proud of

Large flowers in our window

June

Reading Garden - Watermelons have similes, carrots have word families on them. The flowers are cut from color copies of kids' book covers. The children's names are written in the centers.