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Clue Theme
By Krissy4th

What a fun theme idea! How about...

*Ceiling Decorations: Make giant questions marks of different color to hang from the ceiling. Student could each decorate them the first few days of school all about themselves.

*Nametags:
Make student nametags that are magnifying glasses, cut out a circular photo of students and glue in the center of the magnifying glass.

*Star of the Week: Have students fill out a questionairre the first week of school. Choose a different "Mystery Person" star of the week every week. Each day, reveal one clue about the person. On Friday, reveal who it

was.

*AR Goals: If you do AR reading, you could make a large bulletin board for goals with the title "Hot on the case toward on goals!" Give each student a detective to color and move throughout the board. You could do a green background with trees and such. It might even be cute to glue student photos as heads for the detectives.

*Job Chart: A title "Helping Out Is No Mystery!" with students names on small cardstock. If you glue a paper magnifying glass to a library pocket, you could cut it out and then when you slide the cardstock names in, they would show through the glass. Jobs could be written on each handle.

*Reading Incentive: Let students sign their name to a "Super Sleuth" log everytime they read any type of mystery book. Just take a regular notebook and make a fancy cover with detective clip-art.

*Classroom Journals: If your students write in journals everyday, you could call them "Detective Logs"

*Locker Tags: Make little badges for each student that say their names like "Detective Sally"

*Beginning of year activities: Make a word search of detective words and student names

*Welcome board: "It's no mystery who's in our class!" Put students names on a big list with a detective holding them or under a giant magnifying glass. You could laminate the magnifying glass with the center already cut out so it would look like glass.

*Class Library: "Investigate a Good Book Today" Put up a giant magnifying glass to feature various great books on. Let students write reviews to put on the magnifying glass each week. Some small stools painted dark with question marks all over would be cute. Add a couple of plants and you have a cozy little library area!