I wanted to throw it back (to school) and re-post some of my favorite back-to-school ideas!
I have a few random pictures of what I've been doing in my classroom to get ready! I love the energy of my school during back-to-school time! Everyone's excited, but slightly bummed that summer is over. That feeling goes away once we all start working in our classrooms and prepping for our new students (ok, well that bummed feeling *mostly* goes away).
I LOVE to think of fun ways to welcome my students to my classroom with my back-to-school bulletin board. Check out *some* past bulletin boards
HERE.
This year, I took some inspiration from my husband who LOVES Minions (he's a little kid at heart). We watch Despicable me with our niece and nephews and my husband laughs louder than they do. ;) Sure do love that man! Anyway, I found a piñata at Walmart that just CALLED MY NAME and then I found these cute
Minions on TpT. Off I went to decorate!
I cut the headers for this board on my
Silhouette Cameo (best crafting tool, ever!).
The names on the Minions are just Avery mailing labels. Easy-peasy.
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Each year I do a Donation Door for our Back-to-School Night. Parents can come by and grab a sticky note off of our door that says the name of a school supply. They can send in the donated school supplies with their child to school the next day! It's an awesome way to get a variety of supplies for your classroom and not just getting 3,934 boxes of tissues. ;) {You can check out another donation door I've done,
here}
I did print on SUPER sticky notes (found at Target) and I used a tutorial from
this cute blog.
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A few years ago I found this CUUUUUTE behavior mangament idea from
Growing Kinders. I've always done
Brownie Points as a whole-class incentive, but this year I'm doing Mr. Potato Head. I'll pull off all of his parts (hehe) and if the students are working quietly, I will add one part at a time until he is all put together. Once he's all back together, there will be a MYSTERY prize that the whole class will win (lunch with teacher, extra recess, or maybe popcorn party).
With pretty much everything, I got mine on Amazon. Praise all that is holy for Amazon Prime. ;)