Happy August Friends! The smell of school supplies are in the air, and I am definitely feeling the crunch of school starting in seventeen days! I am thoroughly excited to have our PD days next week and get our school year kicked off. I wanted to share what I have been working on in my office during July in between all of the ideas and brainstorming. Our school has the theme "Under the Sea" this year, and I have embraced the nautical theme. Take a peek below at the nautical School Counseling office: This main bulletin board was so much fun to create! I feel the word "character" is so important to be on my main bulletin board in my classroom; it is a daily reminder to students what a school counselor are supposed to help them develop and sustain. On the left, is my door that faces the hallway when open. I found the Cape Cod themed scrapbooking paper pack from Hobby Lobby to make the sign. The Counselor lettering was typed and cut out from the website Canva.com. What is Canva?? It is a great designing website where you can create free graphic designs and printing documents. This will be the second year I have used this, and I feel this has really helped my students and co-workers! I use a clothespin and pin it to the corner of each card depending on where I am or what I am doing that the moment. I used the Cape Cod scrapbooking paper for the top portion, and then I used FREE nautical theme labels from No Longer Drowning on TeachersPayTeachers. Above our my table number centerpieces! I love how they turned out! I used a used candle jar that I removed the wax from, jude rope from Hobby Lobby, and a glue gun. I found a FREE table number printable from Butter Buddies on TeachersPayTeachers, then laminated and glued them to popsicle sticks. These make my classroom management very easy and quick when I am trying to teach a 25 minute lesson! Above is my objective board in the front of my room. I use this and post my objectives weekly for each class I teach. At the beginning of the class, I always reference this with my students and let them know that if they look over here, they will know what we are learning about for the day. Even my first graders got into the habit of looking at this! As hard of a habit it was to get into this, I feel that my objective board keeps me on task and focused when it comes to lesson planning. For the grade numbers, I printed them from Canva, and then glued them onto some of the Cap Cod scrapbooking paper. I also laminated some chart paper; this way I can write the objectives with Expo marker and erase as the year goes! As you can see, I am pumped about this school year. Stay tuned for the fun adventures that are in store!
Jessica
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