Back to School and Fall Bulletin Boards

Below are some beginning of the year and fall bulletin board ideas. Some of these are from my classroom and some items are from Tracey and Rebecca's rooms.  Some ideas are original and some were seen on Pinterest and adapted for our classrooms. 

  This was my door for the beginning of the year.  I started my school year with five students

 

In September we did a mini-unit on Apples.  Projects pictures and freebies for this unit coming soon.

Rebecca starts her school year with a camping theme.  Each student name is written on an ant, this is how she keeps track of attendance, hot lunch, and when students are out of the classroom.  Next to her attendance board she has her behavior clip chart.  Click here to get a better picture and information to purchase this clip chart. 

Writer's workshop

                                                          Tracey's hallway decorations.

 

A fun fall door.

 

Math Workshop Centers

No wasted space in this room, this is a mini-bulletin board on the side of a book shelf.

This is the bulletin board I used to help remind my students of behavior expectations in the classroom. I have my students for multiple years, this is a great way to assess what they remember after the long summer.  The post-it notes are all the different ways students remember how to be successful in the classroom.   The chef is from www.djinkers.com.  Most of my bulletin board sets are DJ Inkers.

We started our school year off reading all the books from the series If you Give a Mouse a Cookie.  After reading these books we do a text to self project.  We read If you Take a Mouse to School and then students wrote sentences about what they enjoy doing at school.  After writing their sentences each student drew a picture of themselves at school.

This is my "Do Now Board" (you can visit the TPT store and download this for free).  This board was created to give my students visual reminders of their morning and afternoon responsibilities.  Each morning students check this board to see what they need to do.  Next to their name I will place a post-it note with any more work or special things they need to do.  This is the first thing students see when they walk into my room in the morning.  As soon as we have a more established daily routine, I will be adding responsibilities to the afternoon side.

My door for the month of October.  Each student created their monster out of construction paper and then wrote a paragraph to describe their monster.

Above are Rebecca's fall hallway decorations.   Each candy corn had Halloween words on them in alphabetical order.  The pumpkins above the locker are focused on place value.