A Little Motivation

I'm going to try & see if we can play this during our in-service next week :)

Ready For A Super Year!

I've been working non-stop the past few weeks getting my room & myself ready for the new school year. Thank heavens for Pinterest. A teacher told me about it last year & it's where I came upon the inspiration for my classroom theme this year. As most already know I'm going with Superheroes, which by sheer coincidence happens to match our "Super 2nd Grade" shirts we always get each year as a grade level.

It all started with a behavior chart pin I saw on Pinterest from 3rd Grade's a Hoot:

Here's my take on the Behavior Chart I saw:

I had a projector from the days when I started teaching a few years ago; since we had ceiling projectors installed 2 years ago I just have my extra at home. I hooked up the laptop & projected the superhero images, logos & bulletin board titles onto poster board that i taped up to my pantry door in the kitchen :) Once everything was traced out (I only did one thing at a time, btw) I hand painted the images with acrylic paints I got from Hobby Lobby. See here:
This really was too much fun to be considered work!


My Welcome Board:

My Student Work Board: (We're Batty for Super Work)

Wonderful Writing: (Writer's Workshop)

Flash Math:

I have a "Shine A Light on Reading" board with Green Lantern as the "mascot" but I was waiting on the laminator to finish the title.

Every classroom needs a Job Chart, I just added a title to my chart from last year, why reinvent the wheel, these jobs worked really well for me last year, so...

I downloaded a bunch of free "Comic" inspired fonts from www.1001freefonts.com. I even did my Word Wall letters in a comic font, just makes it so colorful!

As I was doing a little digging around once I decided on the theme I found an alternative title for a MOOSE folder/notebook, mine will be called a H.E.R.O. Folder: Have Everything Ready & Organized. I have set up labels in Word to make for the the kids' folders, one for my girls & Batman will represent the boys.

I'm gonna always be on the lookout now for superhero items & ideas for throughout the year.

I just hope the kids enjoy it, I know the novelty will wear off eventually, but I'm gonna try & milk this theme as much as possible. ;)

Now it's off to do some planning & finish my parent packets. See ya'll in a few days once we go back for In-Service!