Main Hallway!

My school's  main hallway bulletin boards are famed by the themes selected. Specially  for the back to school class lists. Everybody knows Rosita, a lady who works at the school administration and the person responsible for "dressing up" the bulletins. She takes pride of the artwork put on there. The school community always expect something new, spectacular. The themes always remain a "secret"  until the calendar marks "the day". She has a team that always help her. She assigns them part of the theme, gives them an idea of what she would like to see there, and then...magic comes on. Every teacher starts creating, drawing, cutting, pasting... their vision from her idea. Time comes to put all together and ...Voila!

DIY OWL Thingy for School Materials

Are you always looking for things that you can reuse? Here's a simple DIY project for Back2School!

Materials:

• plastic soda bottle 
• scissors
• felts or foamies
• hot glue
• butttons
• Owl template

Steps: 

1. Cut the top section of the bottle
2. Trace and cut the foamy using the desire template
3. Trace, cut,  and paste the eyes, beak, and  wings 
4. Trace, cut, and paste the claws
5. Finally use the hot  glue to adhere it. 

gather all the materials 

trace your template

cut 

cut details, eyes and beak

glue in place, add the buttons

wings (style 2)

cut the wings (any style)

cut the claws

OwlMaNiA...OMG!

My classroom's theme for this year  is Owls. I have Owls all over... and my student's binder is called the OWL Binder. OWL stands for Organized While Learning. I asked them to be creative and do a drawing or a craft for their binder cover related to an OWL.

Well, guess what?  My students have been infected with Owlmania...LOL, yes! No medication for that yet!
Now a lot of things with owls invade the classroom. Let's take a look at them.

Owl made out of old t-shirts, felt,
 and buttons for the eyes

an owl purse 

another stuffed owl 

Owl notebook 

Owl lunchbox

Henry and Mudge

It was kind of fun having all the pieces
and gluing all together, just like a puzzle. 

I guess you  have noticed that it has been quite a time that I don't stop by to post anything. Well, it has been difficult for me to adapt to a new grade level. It hasn't been an easy task to have a last minute change,  when you have three levels: kindergarten, second grade and fifth grade. Oh,  well!  I keep going!

My second graders loved the story Henry and Mudge and we worked on the sequence of events using a very creative idea  I saw on Pinterest ( I believed) but I can't remember exactly. 

First, I made a template, traced the dog face on different beige tone construction papers, traced the floppy ears, and the snout. Then they drew and colored the eyes, and added the collar. The students cut and paste following oral instructions to create their own Mudge. 

We cut out bones to write the story events and then placed them in order. We glued them to a strip of poster board for the bulletin board. It was a huge success!  Hope you like them!

This is how it looks on the bulletin board of the hallway. 

Everybody loved the dogs! 

A drawing made by one of my students

We cut out bones to write thestory events
 It was a huge success!  Hope you like them!

smile!