Class Displays

These are a few of the displays I've had up in my class this year:

This is our scrapbook approach to showing the process of building our volcanoes.

I wrote a previous post on making songs using the water-in-the-jar trick. This is part of our display showing our colour songs.

We used a recordable photo album to record the children playing their songs, and include a photo of them playing their song.

"Banana" by Ed Vere is a firm favourite picture book in our class. The kids love it because they can "read" it. There are only two words in the whole book: "banana" and "please." It's a great book for teaching children about looking at the pictures for clues to infer what is happening in the story. We looked at things like colour, line, and facial expression to figure out how the monkey in the story was feeling when he didn't have a banana. We say "banana," we cry "banana," we SCREAM "BANANA!" It's great fun. As a result of all the interest, some of the children decided to paint the monkeys from the story.

As I've mentioned before, my kids love to paint, and we always look for new ways to use the medium to create. The process is so much more important than the end product sometimes. In this display, you can see some of the children's paintings they made using cooked spaghetti. Often, I put up a wee sign to explain what we did. I also pop up photos of the children doing the activity. That way, parents can see what they've been up to, and kids love to look for themselves on the wall.



What have you put up on your classroom walls?