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Travel/Adventure Theme
By BuzyBee

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Reward Coupons: Tourist Tokens, Travel Tokens, Use the names of money from other countries like lira, and peso

Ceiling decorations: Make suitcases from brown/black construction paper with character words hanging on them.

Jobs:
Put up a blue background with little green islands. Each island represents one job. Write student names on planes, ships, hot air balloons, spaceships, etc. for them to rotate to different jobs.

Bulletin Boards: Use old maps for backgrounds


Also, I was digging through my old files from last year and I had written an adventure theme for someone here it is... it's sort

of travel-ish...

**Get one of those large styrofoam planes (cheap at the dollar store) and put your name on it in really big bold letters. Write on the plane "YOUR-LAST-NAME Airways: Where Learning Takes Flight"

**Have all of the students create a passport the first day. Take a digital picture and glue inside. They can add sheets describing places/things they visit throughout the year. Instant portfolio!

**Make a large highway that goes up your wall. Put several exit signs for different places you plan to explore. Like "electricity" "division" etc.

**Get travel brochures from agencies and display them in a center. Encourage students to design their own.

**If you are writing students a letter explaining where they should go the first day of school maybe you could include a personalized "ticket" for the occassion.


**Put up a big banner that says "Welcome to a new adventure." OR "Success is not a destination, it's a journey"

**For reading books, put up brown paper from floor to ceiling. Make it look like a rock wall by drawing cracks and adding crinkles. Give each student a "rockclimber" cutout. For every certain number of books read, move the rockclimber up. '

**For a class reward, move an airplane across a large map of the eart or a spaceship through the solar system. Work toward the end goal.


 


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