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School Wide Bottle Cap Mural Project

School Wide Bottle Cap Mural Project

I am so excited to share the culmination and process behind 5 months of hard work to create this Bottle Cap Mural!  This mural project is an amazing example of how capable children are given the opportunity to express themselves in new and innovative ways.  I am so...
Rosh Hashanah and Back to School Bulletin Board

Rosh Hashanah and Back to School Bulletin Board

It’s that time of year again.  Back to school bulletin boards, getting to know you activities, self portraits to commemorate the beginning of the school year.  At the end of last year we asked all the students to write down a bit of advice for the incoming...
Summer Reading All School Bulletin Board

Summer Reading All School Bulletin Board

For all my teacher friends out there, this turned out to be an awesome all school bulletin board.  We asked all the students to bring in one of their favorite books for our Havurot group on Friday.  Basically, our whole school separates into small groups of 6 or 7...
Recycled Cardboard Mini Books

Recycled Cardboard Mini Books

My 2nd graders recently finished the book Frindle, by Andrew Clements.  They absolutely loved it.  We have been learning about summaries, so Frindle created the perfect opportunity to practice this newly acquired skill.  First I cut up some left over cardboard boxes...
DIY Scrabble Game – Part Two

DIY Scrabble Game – Part Two

We finished our Scrabble Boards today for Intergenerational Day.  IG Day at our school is sort of like Grandparents Day.  Each child invites a special guest, usually a grandparent, to school for a project in the classrooms and a big show.  It was such a great...
Self Portrait Paper Cutouts

Self Portrait Paper Cutouts

This project was so much fun and the results are fantastic.  We needed to spice up our display for some written material in second grade.  It can be so boring to just see 8.5 x 11 papers hanging on a bulletin board.  We decided on a self portrait paper cut out that...