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I am a second grade teacher and have decided to use monkeys as my classroom theme this year. I made postcards to send to my incoming students with the pool guy Changito on them. I colored all of them and put some stickles for the glasses. I have 27 confirmed students but made 32 just in case.
I was hoping some of you creative people could help me with something cute to write on the postcard.
Any other things that could be used for bulletin boards and other things throughout the classroom would be greatly appreciated as well.
Thanks so much for your help!
Concetta
__________________ "There wouldn't be so many stars if we all had the same wish."
First of all I couldn't get past the 27 students! That is a lot for 2nd grade! I teach first and have never had over 20, and I thought that was too much!
The only thing I could think of is "You'll go bananas over second grade, or over learning",.
When I need help with catchy phrases for bboards, I just put the theme in under a google search. I will be checking this post to see if anyone has some fun ideas! Good luck!
First of all I couldn't get past the 27 students! That is a lot for 2nd grade! I teach first and have never had over 20, and I thought that was too much!
It is way too much! Here's the other too much information, 18 boys, 9 girls!
Thanks for the cute idea!
Concetta
__________________ "There wouldn't be so many stars if we all had the same wish."
Wow--that is not a very good breakdown! How many sections of second grade do you have? We have 7 sections of first with 17-20 students in each class. I think it should be a law in primary grades that the class size should be no bigger than 15! We are responsible for teaching the foundations of learning!
I've done monkeys as my classroom theme for the past few years. Last year I did, "Monkeyin' around in the third grade" because I only had 8 girls and 17 boys! It was an appropriate theme. In the past I've stamped welcome bags (white paper bags) with the Monkey Business stamp set.
Be prepared to become the "Monkey Lady". Once I did monkeys as a classroom theme, I received tons of monkey gifts! Now there's no going back for me! Too many monkeys!
Be prepared to become the "Monkey Lady". Once I did monkeys as a classroom theme, I received tons of monkey gifts! Now there's no going back for me! Too many monkeys!
That was the problem I was having with frogs! I had to get rid of them! I donated them to another teacher who does frogs! Some ended up going to Goodwill!
Thanks for the ideas! I am so excited to have a new theme!
__________________ "There wouldn't be so many stars if we all had the same wish."
This might be a lot of work, but probably well worth it. How about stringing a "vine" (clothesline painted green) across the front of the classroom and hanging a cut out monkey with each child's name on it as if they are swinging across the classroom? That would be really cute! Also maybe frame the door in two giant paper palm trees to go along with the monkeys. You could do all kinds of fun themes with the monkeys, from bananas to jungles to zoos. Have fun with all those students!!
__________________ Jen Z. in Elysburg, PA...not quite stampin' in Atlas anymore!
I hope I'm right in thinking the kids are aged about 7 (grades here in the UK are different). I'm thinking most kids of that age like rhyming stuff. Maybe you could go for something like
Monkey see, monkey do
Here's a big welcome to Grade 2!
I don't know if this is possible but what if you created a vine (as another person posted) and used their school pictures from last year as part of the "monkeys" hanging off of the vine. I'm sure you could find an appropriate picture/drawing of a monkey on the web somewhere. You could enlarge it a bit to fit the child's head shot.
Just something I think would be super cute welcome. It would give them a chance to see how much they've grown since last year. You could update the pictures throughout the upcoming school year.
Good luck! I used to teach grades 6-8 and had 36-40 students in each class. I taught 4 subjects to each grade... Needless to say it was my first teaching job and I had no idea that it was way tooo much! Good experience though. I really had fun.
Let us know what you decide.
Maureen
__________________ "In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. Find that fun and snap the job's a game."
Mary Poppins
Good luck with your class.. Holy cow. I had a kindergarten VBS group last year with only 10 children, but 7 of them were boys and my pastor wondered every day if I was going to need medication!! And this was only for one week of mornings!! Bless you.
Oh my! Well what comes to mind for me are the three monkeys ... hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil -- don't remember the order however. I'm sure you can find it on google. ;)
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