It’s that time again to think about how you are going to welcome your future friends to a new school year. I spend a ridiculous amount of time deciding what my start of year display is going to be and typically use at least one workday to get it all done. I like to tell myself that it’s because first impressions matter (which they do), but secretly I think it is just one of those teacher things I dreamed about doing (like using an overhead) and now that I can finally do it I may go over the top a little bit.
I’m almost positive I originally saw this idea (or one very similar) in a Mailbox magazine years ago. A teacher had taken a large sheet of bulletin board paper and stretched it for a background display. Then he or she had cut a large bowl out of paper and put it at the bottom. Inside the bowl and popping up all around were pieces of popcorn with the students’ names on them. The title said “Look Who’s Popping Up in Kindergarten!” Too cute.
Keeping with the food theme, I also saw a display that was an apple tree that “grew” from the hallway floor up to almost the ceiling. From the tree were hanging apples with each child’s name and the saying “You’re the Apple of My Eye.” I also think it would be cute to have the same food - apples or popcorn - as a snack for families at the Open House. Yum!
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