Patriotic Theme By Emily

Nameplates: I had the students use a piece of sentence strip to decorate with red,white and blue the first day of school.

Jobs: Classroom Heroes: on posterboard I glued plain white library pockets on and put a flag sticker on each one and labeled it with a job. Used red, white, and blue craft sticks with their names on them to rotate jobs. Laminate the posterboard for durability.

S.S. bb: Patriots in the News: had a current events board with stories from around the nation. Students could bring in interesting articles, or I would post newsy items.

Reading corner: Uncle Sam wants YOU to read a book!

Compliment chain: for each compliment our class got from another teacher or adult we would add a strip of paper to our chain (in alternating red, white and blue strips obviously). When the chain reached the floor (from the ceiling) we had a Patriotic Party on a Friday afternoon. We'd celebrate all things American (like listen to Jazz music, eat popcorn, drink Coke, etc.) the students would come up with American things to do.

I got so many decorations for 1/2 price after the 4th of July, so I decorated almost everything with Americana (maybe I went a little overboard).
This is all I can remember now, if I think of anything else, I'll post back. Hope this helps