This is right outside my classroom door. One day I came up with the idea to mount a quarter inch plywood right inside the frame of this bulletin board and paint it with magnetic and chalkboard paint. Our IT guy cut the board from a white dry erase board and our custodian painted the back with magnetic and chalkboard paint. It is held in with brackets like the ones used to hold full length mirrors to the wall sometimes so that the board can be easily switched out. So...I now have a 4-in-one: bulletin board, dry erase board, magnetic board, and chalkboard. The chalk/magnetic board is my favorite. I often make it interactive by using the large foam magnetic letters sold at Lakeshore to write messages and when I go out in the hall, an older student has switched the letters around to spell something new. I love it! This summer I have been pinning chalkboard art like crazy. This is my first attempt...well, at least I have all year to practice and get better :)
This is outside my door on the other side. It was stolen right from Doodle Bugs!
My room from the doorway.
1 Start Here: Please find your child's folder...The editable table signs are from Reagan Tunstall's store on Teachers Pay Teachers. Inside the student folders the pockets are labeled: Complete and Return and Take Home and Read. To complete are an emergency contact card, the parent questionnaire Parents 3 - 2 - 1 (free), and an About Me coloring sheet for students. To take home and read are a magnet with my contact information, a classroom brochure with quick facts, a letter of introduction from my student teacher, instruction sheet on how to sign up for Remind101, information about Volunteer Spot, our first Scholastic Reading Club order, and a summer copy of Parent and Child magazine.
2 School Supplies...I have extra supply lists and a container for each item.
3 Tranportation...Often on the first day of school I don't know how some children are getting home. This year I am going to try to take care of that up front. It is one of the questions on the emergency contact information card, but also at this stations students will use the interactive whiteboard to drag their name to the correct column.
4 Treat Yourself...I have cookies (where are the napkins? oops!), a bottles of water with gift tags that read Parents like you are refreshing! Thank You, glow stick necklaces for students with tags Your future is so bright!, and a tub of free books (I had a surplus of little free books Scholastic sometimes gives away with your order.)
Wish me luck! Tonight is the night!
Next year I will have a table outside my door to drop off school supplies and sort them later. This seemed to be a bottleneck in the traffic flow. Supplies would be Station 1 and then when families entered the classroom they could have a look around and be drawn into the other stations.
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