Bulletin Boards 2014-2015

Apparently every time I walked past my bulletin board and thought it needed to be changed, it REALLY did need to be changed, because I pathetically only did a few boards this year. Which obviously becomes goal number one for next year.

We started the year with our summer reading board still up, so I did not change it until fall.

For the fall tree I used my Big Tree kit and an assortment of other fall leaves. 

The scarecrow is from a Mailbox book of patterns that I use for a lot of cutouts.

In January I used the International Kids kit and focused on country books with a travel theme. 

To highlight historical fiction and biographies, I used cutouts from the Mailbox book 
and a few pieces from the Civil Rights Pioneer Bulletin Board Set.

Inspiration comes from Pinterest (who doesn't love Pinterest?) the fall board was from this uploaded photo, the travel was loosely taken from this photo and I'm not certain where I came up with the historic idea since I haven't anything pinned. It might just be an original idea. Gasp!

I did one final board, but I can not show a photo of it because I displayed student work. The kids absolutely loved it and I will most likely make it an annual event. I got the idea from this blog post. Found some clipart that was similar to what she used and made my to fit a half sheet of 8.5x11 copy paper. Some of the work was really quite good and the students enjoyed looking at all the different book titles.