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Garden Fun
By BuzyBee

I'm thinking of using this theme this coming year because I love ladybugs and bees. Here's what I am thinking of doing...

Good Work Board: "Good Work is Blooming!" or "Prize winning work!"

Behavior Managment: I'm using
a card pulling system and each card will have a picture of a daisy. The first daisy will have five leaves, second daisy four leaves, etc.
Jobs: "Worker Bees" Each student has a bee on a big hive listing jobs; OR "Helping Hands in the Garden or A Garden of Help!" Each student has their name on a silk flower head glued to a push-pin (ask a craft store or floral shop to donate these

because they really can't use them without stems) List jobs on paper clay post and stems, rotate flowers as needed.

Decorations: Drape floral garland over board tops, doorways, window tops. Use big plastic bugs glued to pushpins to hold messages, etc.

Information Board/Calendar: "Look what's buzzing!"

Reading Corner: "Read and your imagination will bloom/grow!" Green rug (grass) and a white picket fence (paper or a real one) to form a border around the edge. Use big plastic flower pots or flower boxes to hold extra books.

Bulletin Boards: Use fabric with bees, ladybugs, sky, grass, flowers, fences, etc. (Check the $1 a yard section at Wal-Mart"

Ceiling Decorations: Hang large butterflies aroudn the room from the ceiling.

Welcome Board: "Sunny Days in ___ grade!" Put each student's name on a sunflower and make a bulletin board to welcome students.

Welcome gift: Give each student a small packet of seeds with a pencil tied to it to welcome them to your class. Maybe you could have them plant them in the windowsill in a pot the first week and they could take care of the flowers all year.

Attendance: Bee There!

Reading: "Reading plants seeds in your imagination!" And give each student a seed packet made of construction paper with their name on it. Use small colored stickers to put on the packets for each book read (so they look like seeds)