Deck the halls. My teachers here have been taking this literally and our school looks amazing! I’ve been admiring the adorable craftivities that so many teachers are putting on display outside their rooms and have to say, I’m a little jealous.
I went to my go-to place to shop (also known as TPT) and starting browsing the selection of craftivities but could not find any that quite suited my goals. So…I made my own.
By the way, I was tired of having to change my bulletin board display every holiday so I found this idea at Crazy Speech World and use “Speech Tweets” as a general bulletin board. Then, I switch out the projects that we are working on. It’s a good way for others to keep updated on what we’ve been doing in our speech room 🙂
This week, we’ve been making synonym and opposite Christmas trees and verb presents! The kids had a blast with the trees but we’re still working on completing some of the presents. I wanted to get this out to you though in case you wanted to use it next week.
Here is an opposite tree. I got the idea from Teaching with a Twist. Unfortunately, my students don’t have contraction goals so I adapted it to make synonym and opposite trees!
My other project is verb gifts. Students place verbs in the column of the gift based on present or past tense. I found this one at Second Grade Cup of Tea. She has one for fact and opinion so head on over there if you’re working on those goals!
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What a cute idea!!!
Love your bulletin! 🙂 So cute!
Sugar and Spice
Super Cute! Can’t wait to try them with my group!
Jenna
Very cool!
Will definitely try!
Thanks for a great “Present” Tense activity — very clever!! It’s sometimes hard to make verbs fun but I know my students will enjoy this! What a great carryover activity too — thanks again!
Great idea for a bulletin board. Those activities are very cute and very festive! Love it!
Rebecca
Talking With Rebecca
Thanks everyone! Please let me know how they go with your groups!
Love this idea!
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