Bulletin Board

There is no doubt about it – Christmas is very near!! My second graders are so excited that they can hardly concentrate. We have started with several fun activities that they have thoroughly enjoyed. I have a bulletin board outside my classroom with a Christmas theme and the children and I have progressively decorated a tree. To begin with I completed the background and placed the tree in the center of the board. Each day last week, the children would make ornaments to place on the tree. Some of the ornaments looked like the old-fashioned lights with the big bulbs, others were the more traditional looking ornaments that they drew, colored and glittered. Finally at the top of the tree we added a bright star. My heart was overwhelmed when the children stepped back to look at its completion and one commented “look Mrs. Steele, we are the ornaments and that is you on top of the tree”. They never cease to amaze me!!

Blog posted by December writer Angela Steele, a 2nd grade teacher at Whitnel Elementary School in Lenoir, NC.