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Travel Theme
By BuzyBee

**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.
**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 the "meet me on the playground at 8:30" maybe you could include a personalized "ticket" for the occassion.

**For a jobs chart, 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.

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

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

***Collect old maps from National Geographic magazines and use them to decorate. You can tear them into pieces and decoupage them over bookshelves, pencil holders, book crates, an author's chair...the possiblities are endless..even a wooden block for a hall pass.

...Cover bulletin boards with an old maps for a background.

...Have a traveling pet project so that your class can "visit" these places along with your pet.

Hope this helps!
--Krissy