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Camping Fun
By BuzyBee

Reading Corner: Camp fire (paper on the wall of course) and some cushy pillows. Decorate the walls with black paper with stars on them. A tent would be awesome to add in!

Jobs: "Catching Classroom Helpers!" Put each
student's name on a fish and put the jobs on "hooks" rotate as needed. OR make small pockets that resemble sleeping bags or small tents and put students names and let them decorate a little "Camper" to represent themselves. Move them from sleeping bag/tent each week/month.
Welcome Board: Red/white table cloth, put each student's name on an ant or a paper plate. Put the ants all

over with the sign "Marching into ___'s room!"

Good Work Board: "S'More Great Work" Put a black backround and put paper marshmallows, graham crackers, and real Hershey wrappers all around the edge. (Mmmm, makes me hungry thinking about it

Class Reward: Once a week draw one student who has had a great week from a fishbowl. Have a box made up on a bunch of paper fish with paper clips in their mounths with rewards written on them like "No Homework" or "Free Pencil." At the dollar store, they have small magnetic fishing poles for $1, let students fish in the box for a reward. (These poles are also fun for center games like "Fishing for Multiplication facts, etc.)

Word Wall: Each letter could have a different green tree, on the wall, these would become "WORD FOREST"

Year long project: Make a little paper person and laminate, and have the class name him or just call him something like Happy Camper. Put him/her inside a large envelope with a map of the U.S. On the outside of the envelope, glue a print-out of a picture of an RV. Send the RV all over the U.S. during the year. Students can write letters asking for information. Keep a classroom map asking "Where has Happy Camper been?" This would be similar to a Flat Stanley project. If you make the RV with a lot of white space, you could ask each person that receives it to sign it. It would be a lot of fun for the kids. People would probably send back pictures and small items sometimes, too.