This bulletin board was created during the month of March, as students were learning a lot about adjectives and character traits. Each student created a rainbow with their name on it. Each color of the rainbow includes an adjective that students would use to describe themselves. The positive adjectives that students used were truly inspiring and they loved seeing the final product. They shared a good laugh at the leprechaun feet hanging out of the pot o' gold, too!
Table Captains are part of a management plan that incorporates teamwork and leadership. Returning from winter break, students seemed to have trouble remembering to rip out their homework, or put it in their folders. The Table Captain system was introduced as a result! The responsibilities of a table captain are to check that each classmate at their table has ripped out their homework and placed it in their folders to go home. The first round of captains were chosen through teacher selection based on a speech explaining why that child should be selected. The second and third rounds of captains were chosen through an anonymous vote. Table captains are changed monthly, and students may only be reelected once every child in the room has held the position. Missing homework is far less frequent as a result and the students selected as captain enjoy being classroom leaders!
Back in January, my second grade students completed a descriptive writing assignment about what warms them up on a cold, wintry day. The majority of my students wrote about hot chocolate; one creative student wrote about coffee! This response inspired me to create my first bulletin board based around their writing assignment. It was only appropriate to title it Loco for Hot Cocoa! After brainstorming, rough drafting and peer editing, students were able to publish their final drafts inside of a coffee mug template. In addition to their writing samples, students posed with a snowball and created handmade snowflakes to add to our bulletin board. It came out almost as beautifully as their writing!
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