7 Habits Bulletin Board

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I might use this idea (and make it my own) for my 7 Habits Board. The habits become like stepping stones or road signs to help us become the leaders we need to be. I will use the winding path idea, but through the woods instead. I will include this poem:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Start Off On The Right Foot

Below is another great idea for the first of the year. I like the idea of giving each student a color circle and letting them fill the circle with information about themselves! That way no matter how many students in the room, everyone would have a circle. I'm thinking a white $1 plastic table cloth? A great getting to know each other bulletin board. Credit below for the great idea!

By: Kayla Johnson on Bulletin Board Ideas

Twister® Bulletin Board

Background: Cover the bulletin board with the game mat. If you have any space left over, cover it with white bulletin board paper.
Title: “Right Foot, _______________ [Sixth Grade, Mrs. Nelson's Class, etc]” – We love how this captures the spirit of the game as players usually follow directions like, “Right foot, Green!” from the spinner.
Border: Brightly colored pattern trimmer.
Decoration: Use a black permanent marker to script your kiddos’ names onto the colored circles of the game mat. If you have space, mount the game spinner to the bulletin board as well.

Supplies for this bulletin board…

Twister® board game
Poppin patterns multi-designs upper and lower case bulletin board letters
Red jumbo polka dots wavy border

Over-Used Words Bulletin Board

I love her idea! Tombstones...fall and Halloween, but not just for show. All my bulletin boards MUST have a real purpose. Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: Variation on word walls

Another variation the word wall is the "dead" or "retired" word wall. The concept allows you to take all the worn-out, overused, and boring words students use and display them to help students eliminate them from their writing. Of course, using a tombstone motif won't really go over too well in some schools, so you might put the words "out to pasture" instead.