Do you ever get stuck for ideas for bulletin boards? I love this "I Can Read" environmental print board.
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| Bulletin board with cut-out box fronts for grocery products |
My best friend, Tracie, gave me this idea while we taught kindergarten together. It's simple, colorful, fun, and a great learning tool. I also use this board now in pre-k. I ask my pre-k students if they can tell me what's on the board. Of course, they can, because they recognize the logos, pictures, and other visual cues. I then tell them that they're reading, and they get so excited!
Another thing I made was this environmental print restaurant book, which my kids went crazy for! They begged me to let them take home the guided reading books, which I actually had every intention of giving them.
Places We Like
I also went out into the community with a sighted friend and he took digital photographs of restaurants and stores located near the school, so that my students could see and recognize actual places that they visit. I made these into another book that the kids loved. Here are a couple examples of the photos we took for the book:
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| Burger King restaurant near my school |
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| Domino's restaurant near my school |
These books truly motivate the kids. There's a
Dr. Jean song called
"Pizza Hut" that's really great for sequencing, and which goes along perfectly with environmental print books. What do you think?
