Here we are, the fourth annual Open House post!  This is when I show off all of the hard work that my students have done the past few months with a plethora of pictures.  There are a lot of pictures below.  I have written a bit of text so you have some idea of what is going on, but if you click on the pink links, it will take you to a more indepth explanation of the project.  So, without further ado, here is Room 6! This is a full view of the right side of my room.  You can see the cabinets and student desks. A view from the left side of the room.  You can see several things here in this picture.  The Colony Balloons are hanging from the ceiling.  Our Walking the Colonies map is painted on the cupboard (on butcher paper) and the Paul Revere lesson is on the far left.  You can also see our letters to the First Lady about the Walking Classroom on the right. Above the cabinets, you can see student writing (we used a Paragraph of the Week , informational style, and the kid...
Today is a short and sweet post.  I just wanted to share with you an easy way I found to display student writing. I have this little space above my cabinets that I wanted to display some student writing on for our Open House, but I couldn't think of anything that would be sturdy enough to hold up the writing, yet be cheap enough for me to actually obtain...until one day it hit me.  Soda can cartons. They are about the size of a half sheet of paper and are rather sturdy...and exactly the right size for what I needed!  So I asked the students to bring in any empty containers they had (and since so many people are giving up soda nowadays, it proved to be pretty hard to get as many as I needed!)  But I eventually did get about 14, so I was good to go. After backing the final drafts of the paragraphs they students wrote in construction paper, I stapled them onto the soda cartons.  Each carton fit two paragraphs.  Then, I lined them up above the cabinets and had a nice disp...