This is a Halloween/fall bulletin board in which students write a description of a number in place value/word form on the outside. Then they flip up the pumpkin to reveal the number.

For example: My number has a 3 in the hundreds spot. It has a 5 in the ones spot. It has a 4 in the tens spot.

The number is 345

This is one of my September bulletin boards, welcoming the kids.

Homeworkopoly- students can play to win prizes every Friday if they've done their homework all week. Go to www.homeworkopoly for more information.

The Giving Tree- students fill this tree up with leaves throughout the year. On the leaves, are good deeds that they've seen others doing.

Here is what the tree looked like in the beginning of the year! What a difference!

Together we make a beautiful rainbow!

This bulletin board is done for Black History Month or Martin Luther King Day. Each student gets a crayon and colors it their favorite color. I take their pictures and they glue them onto the tips of the crayon. On the crayon itself, in marker they write a "dream" they have for the world.

This is the poem that goes with the Crayon bulletin board. It's called A Box of Crayons. We read and discuss it together before making the crayons.

This is one of my favorite bulletin boards! Before Thanksgiving, my students and I brainstorm a list of all the people in our school who we're thankful for. Then, each student selects a person to write a thank you letter to, and I take their pictures with the person they wrote to. The staff in our school loves this!

Here is a close-up of our letters.

This is another September bulletin board. We have Hawaiian pen pals, so it fits our theme perfectly! See below to get the printable Hawaiian children.

This is a close-up. Each child can decorate their own.

On the last day of school, my students come up with a list of "handy tips" for the next class to come up into third grade. They then trace their hands, and write the tip on the hand. It's an easy bulletin board to start the year out with.

This is just a basic "work to be proud of" board. In the middle you might see what looks like a collage. It's actually a puzzle. I have the students decorate a puzzle piece on the first day of school, and then they must put it together as a group. This teaches them about cooperation, and gives me some information on who are the shy and outgoing personalities.

This bulletin board is called "Snow-tastic Snow Facts". I had my students research snowflakes one year, and then they made and decorated a snowflake with a written fact on it.

This isn't exactly a bulletin board, but can be made into one. In the first few days of school, students trace their profiles and we write Bio-Poems, which is on the white paper you see in the middle of their profile.

We study four tribes of Native Americans throughout the school year. As one of our final projects, we make dream catchers. They always come out so nicely!

This is a bulletin board that my student teacher designed. She had the kids write metaphors for each color of the rainbow and then write a metaphor on each stripe of the rainbow. They came out really cute!