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Camping out
By Lisa WA

I also do a camping theme with my fourth graders, and have a tent in my room as a reading area. The sign attached to it says "Camping out with a good book."
I also used bulletin board paper to cover an entire wall with a mountain mural (blue sky, purple mountains, brown hills, green foreground). All of my writing/language stuff is tied into the display, for example "A soaring spelling strategy" with hawks holding the steps to spell an unfamiliar word. "The road to good writing" is a road with 6 signs, each one holding one of the 6 traits. "Million Dollar Mine" has buckets of gold nuggets. Each bucket has an overused, "tired" word, and the nuggets inside have better word choices.
Hope that gives you a springboard for ideas.