Bulletin boards are a great way to add color, personality, and student work to the hallway. But let's be honest, they take a lot of work too! To compromise on the work of it all, but not the other benefits, I set my board up for the year. I keep the background color and border the same all year long and just change what goes on it. Here, for the start of the school year, I made polaroid picture frames that housed each of their smiling faces from the first day of school. It had their name on each of the frames too! I cut the letters using my Cricut cutting machine, but you can print and cut at home with this file from my TPT store. I always laminate the letters in hopes of using them again in years going forward. Currently, I'm thinking of a June bulletin board that changes to "Picture yourself in second grade". We shall see! Now this one was a family time, at home, project. I set the plain turkey, copied on construction paper, home the last week of October. Families has 1-2 weeks to use whatever they had around the house to decorate a turkey. It's amazing how the themes and objects used represent the family themselves! It was a great project and bulletin board. Again, I used the Cricut to cut the letters and free fonts from websites online, for more details check out the Thanksgiving post! I must confess, this is a repeat. Yup, I laminate letters and any decorations to reuse in different years. The lightbulbs I made new to include each student's name on the board. To be honest, I'm not sure they know who Charlie Brown is but now that I'm thinking about it I'll ask them in class! Slightly before the end of January, I sent home a letter to parents asking them to fill our hearts with love. Parents took this task and did an out of this world job of collecting love from siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, AND pets! Messages about why they love that child or words describing them. When the students got to read each heart, their face light up. Priceless. For the parent letter template and bulletin board letters click this link to my TPT store. *This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
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Kristi Hatt
8/5/2018 06:12:45 pm
What font did you use for the "picture yourself in first grade" bulletin?
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Andrea
8/6/2018 04:46:58 am
I love your "Polaroid" bulletin board. Can you tell me the font(s) you used when you made it?
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Rebecca Bowman
5/10/2019 11:44:01 am
What size are each of these letters? I am LOVING the picture yourself in First Grade board and would like to try it myself.
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6/1/2019 08:31:29 am
What font did you use on the bulletin board " Picture yourself in First Grade"?
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Amanda Hutson
6/22/2019 09:04:48 am
I love your bulletin board that says “Picture yourself in first grade”! How did you make the Polaroid frames?
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jennifer
7/19/2019 01:27:31 pm
What font did you use?
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sherri
8/6/2019 06:37:12 am
Hi I love this board. Would you possibly be able to tell me the size and font of letters?
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Michele Dougherty
5/21/2020 09:21:33 pm
Sorry this is SO late in the game. Are you a Cricut® user? If so open the PDF to find a link to an already made Cricut® file ready to cut or adjust the size to meet your needs, just have to download the fonts listed in the file first! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bulletin-Board-Picture-Yourself-in-First-Grade-5371988
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Aretha Miller
5/21/2020 07:13:08 am
I love your fill your heart board. Where can I find your letter to parents asking them to help with love ?
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Michele Dougherty
5/21/2020 09:19:23 pm
Posted on TPT!
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