Do you struggle with keeping your students engaged and learning, especially during whole-group instruction? I want an interactive literacy bulletin board and an interactive math bulletin board for each month! I plan to teach the standard/skill for each bulletin board during whole group instruction and then let my students interact and teach each other during center time or free choice. If you are interested in this concept and want more information, just click the button below each image to see them in my store. You can read the descriptions and watch the videos! Scroll all the way down to the bottom to download a freebie! Try counting buses out on your students and see how engaged and ready they are to learn! Give them the chance to become teachers to each other.
Back to School LITERACY Bulletin Board
These backpacks can be posted close to your morning circle/ meeting area. These are perfect to help with language and speech development. Have a student pick a school tool, place it in the backpack, and find the beginning letter and word!! Take out the vocabulary words and use the backpacks for color word recognition!!
Back to School MATH Bulletin Board
These shape backpacks can be posted near your large group area or close to a math center. Use them to introduce shapes and acquire vocabulary with the school tools. It’s an adorable, fun, hands-on way to tackle so many standards at once, and it keeps your students engaged throughout the day!
Halloween LITERACY Bulletin Board
These haunted houses are perfect for teaching uppercase letter recognition, lowercase letter recognition, and beginning sounds! During large group instruction, teach them over a few days, and let your students explore and have fun! These are a perfect tool to leave up for October to encourage play around the alphabet!
Halloween MATH Bulletin Board
Use these “scary” faces to teach number identification and one-to-one correspondence. Instructions are included to help you put this together and make your classroom more interactive for October! One idea is to use the HP instant ink boxes by hot gluing the three sides to place the faces on. Leave the bottom unglued so students can reach in and play repeatedly with the numbers and objects. Have your students teach each other after you introduce it to the whole class, and get them excited to learn!
Thanksgiving LITERACY Bulletin Board
Use these adorable table settings with tablecloths and Thanksgiving foods to help you learn about syllables! Each has a smaller picture in case your students aren’t reading yet. There are a variety of pictures to choose from to count out the syllables, and it’s a super fun and interactive way to keep students busy and learning!
Thanksgiving MATH Bulletin Board
Get ready for Thanksgiving during whole-group instruction by introducing these Thanksgiving Foods! There are 15 different-shaped place settings with various foods in all 15 shapes! Introduce shapes and vocabulary acquisition to hit multiple standards and increase engagement by having students teach each other through play!
Christmas LITERACY Bulletin Board
Use these 3 different sets of cookie sheets to help teach your students about reading sentences. These are perfect for an interactive bulletin board on reading sentences, a whole group lesson, a small group lesson, a literacy center, or in dramatic play! Start with set 1, pointing to the words and matching pictures, and then gradually progress to just reading words, and then students can make their own sentences with the words and pictures.
Christmas Math Bulletin Board
Use these Christmas trees and wreaths as an interactive bulletin board, a whole-group lesson, a small-group lesson, a math center game, or for early finishers. Count the lights on the tree or the berries on the wreath! Velcro the amount and then compare the two side by side. Copy two sets if you are working on “equal.” A data-sheet is included at the end to assess and compare amounts with less than, greater than, and equal.
Winter Literacy Bulletin Board
Use these 2 different sets of winter rhyming words to introduce your students to the rhyming standard. One set has the words on snow globes, while the other has the same pictures with words that can be velcroed onto the bottoms of the snow globes. Thumbs-up and thumbs-down pictures are included for students to use on the bulletin board or in whole-group instruction. Glue them onto popsicle sticks to make whole-group instruction more interactive for everyone because an engaged student is a student learning!
Winter Math Bulletin Board
Use these 2 number lines (0-10) and (0-20) to help introduce your students to number identification, using a number line, counting to 10, using one-to-one correspondence, and reading number words up to 20! These 2 number lines will help guide your students in putting the snow globes and snowmen in order up to 10 and 20! My students love playing “teacher” and teaching their friends about academic standards! Trick them into learning in a fun and interactive way using this bulletin board idea because learning can be fun!
Valentine Literacy Bulletin Board
Use these adorable envelopes with colored hearts to help teach your students about color recognition, reading color words, and reading a complete sentence. This product is differentiated for you to assess students in 3 different ways. One is just to match colored hearts to colored hearts. One is to read the color word in that color and read the full sentence with the color word in that color. The final way is to read the color word in black ink and read the sentence with the color word in black ink. It’s a perfect tool for students to use during free choice and play. Let them be the teacher and have fun while learning! Introduce it to the whole group and then let them interact with it all month.
Valentine Math Bulletin Board
Use these pattern posters and the 4 task letters for each pattern to help introduce and assess extending patterns! Post one pattern daily with the 4 ways to make that specific pattern under the poster. Introduce it to the whole group and then let them interact with it all month. It’s a perfect tool for students to use during free choice and play. Let them be the teacher and have fun while learning!
St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Bulletin Board
Use these cereal bowls and pieces to help teach your students about making and reading CVC words. They are differentiated to reach all learners. One set of spoons has the CVC word written on it, and the other does not. This is a perfect tool for students to use during free choice and play. Let them be the teacher and have fun while learning! Introduce it to the whole group and then let them interact with it all month.
St. Patrick’s Day Math Bulletin Board
Use these leprechauns and gold coins to learn about subitizing! Introduce them to the whole group and let them interact with them all month. Staple the curtains over the leprechauns, and then simply lift the paper and guess the amount of gold coins! This is a perfect tool for students to use during free choice and play. Let them be the teacher and have fun while learning!
Spring Literacy Bulletin Board/ Game
Use these adorable flowers as an interactive bulletin board for whole-group instruction, small-group rotations, or an independent literacy center. Spinners and dice are included to make it a game for students to play together or have it be teacher-led. Make your bulletin boards cute, engaging, and instructional! This is perfect for early finishers or as an added center during your free choice/playtime. If you are worried about keeping the small pieces together, I have included mats to velcro the pieces for storage.
Spring Math Bulletin Board/ Game
Use these adorable number butterflies as an interactive bulletin board for whole-group instruction, small-group rotations, or an independent math center. Spinners and dice are included to make it a game for students to play together or have it be teacher-led. Make your bulletin boards cute, engaging, and instructional! This is perfect for early finishers or as an added center during your free choice/playtime.
Please let me know how you feel about these! I am pretty excited to try them out, and I’m hoping that all of you will be as well!!! Check out the FREEBIE I have posted below by clicking on the button below the picture and downloading the fun interactive buses!! I guarantee your students will love the cute images and be engaged and ready to teach each other!
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