Second quarter is right around the corner for us in the Kansas City area! I found some time this week and changed my bulletin boards up. Here's what I came up with:
These are two posters I made and sent to our digital department to blow up to poster size. Here it is:
SHORTCUTS. As always, please don't sell these. It's my work. For the time being I am offering it free. I will eventually put them up for sale so take advantage while you can!
I also made the poster for this bulletin board. I got the idea online. . .
I made it in Word and had it printed out. I will include the link later. . . it's not on this computer!
This bulletin board is made up of some pre-fab insects I made mean. . . I posted earlier about it. The link to the different kinds of bugs is
HERE.
The font is super cute. I got it from 1001 free fonts. I think it's called "Bugs Life".
I reused the iPod I made for last quarter. I was actually really lazy and just stapled the new Apps up over the old ones. The font is Ravi- I think it's a standard Word font. I just outlined it, printed it on colored paper, glued it to black paper, laminated it and cut around it.
This board is in the hall. I will take it down next month and put another one up. . . I try to do the hallway board more often. I had some of the braver teachers take a typing test (www.typingtest.com) and give me their WPM. I took photos of them doing something silly while typing. . . one teacher is using Hulk Hands, another is pretending to sleep. I posted their WPM on their photo. The great thing about this is that some teachers are very fast and others are not. . . it gives the kids something to work for. Kind of cool!
This is my big board in the room. This took a bunch of black bulletin board paper and four packs of colored paper that I bought for half off at Michaels. (I paid $8 for all the paper and had a ton leftover). In case you are in an area of the world that doesn't play Minecraft, that's what this is! I had my kids help me and we had a fun Saturday night fixing this up.
My daughter says I need a gamer tag. I may do that. . .
This was pretty easy to do, it just took patience. If I did it again I would not leave the black spaces between the brown on the ground.
The font was found online for free. It's called Minecrafter. Here's the deal on this. I downloaded it, free, but ended up with two viruses that took me an entire Sunday to get rid of. I was honestly surprised when I still ended up with the font! Download with care. I don't know if it was my computer, my connection, the site I found it on or what. I just know it was a pain in the butt.
This bulletin board is HUGE! It takes up an entire wall.
I also changed my computer numbers out. I use the pre-fab calendar numbers that you get at a teacher store. I laminate them and change them every month (or season, depending on how lazy I am). I tried using the tacky strip stuff, then used the special restick stuff. I now use masking tape. It's cheap and it works.
I am ready for second quarter!
