Theme - Camping & Outdoors Theme
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Camping is a fun classroom theme with lots of possibilities. Here's a collection of ideas to get you started in organizing your own camping themed classroom.
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Posted by: Cheresa #137305
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I have a tent in my reading corner with some pine trees.
My birthdays are going to be bug jars.
Fishing for Good Behavior
Campfire Stories for my students published work
Camper of the Week - student of week
Camp Assistants- one boy and one girl for helpers for the day
S'more good work.
I am still working on my room and hope to take pictures soon to post. | |
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Hiking/Camping Theme
Posted by: CageyBee #137306
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When I was in Kindergarten I did a camping theme that included:
break-->A bulletin board with 3D S'mores that read "S'more Books You'll Love!" (I used a wooden skewer but a thin twig would be better, sheets of craft foam for cracker and chocolate, and a "fake" marshmallow that was part of a foam snowman craft from Oriental Trading...too cute!)
break-->I crumbled a long sheet of brown kraft paper to resemble rocks and made a cave in the corner so the children could read inside it. I had low bulletin boards and so I could staple it on for support but you could use a small table or desk as the base on which to place the paper.
break-->I had a backpack with a compass, map, binoculars, butterfly net, pencil, etc. so the children could hike around the room and collect bugs, ... | |
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Camping
Posted by: KellyTeachTX #137070
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That's a great theme-idea!
Here's some things that just popped to mind:
Bulletin Boards with that cute red/white checker pattern fabric...you could write your rules, ets on paper plates, and staple them onto the board in different places and title the board "Third Grade is full of Happy Campers" You could write their names on the paper plates.
OR you could do subjects (if you're self-contained) and write something for each subject on the plates. You could add napkins and plastic cups with plastic utensils in the cups. (I actually did this one year, and it's really cute!)
Camping titles/ideas for Bulletin Boards
Happy Campers in Room ____
Mrs.____'s Happy Campers
Camped Out in the Reading Corner
Bird's Eye View of Math (Math facts, etc)
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Posted by: scraphappy #1485
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Download:  behavior chart.doc (115 KB)
Hi All,
Thanks for all of your sweet comments. I'm going to attempt to attach my behavior chart. I made it in word so if it doesn't open for you let me know and I'll add write about it here (I've never attached anything through these boards before).
The campfire was simple. I used a plastic container and put orange lights into it. I 'think' I bought them at AC Moore. It may have been a Halloween item, but I know I bought them last August so it may have just been a regular item as well. I wrapped organge, red and yellow cellophane around the outside of the container and hot glued it into place. I placed real logs around it. It really was adorable and created such a special environment for sharing stories and building community.
My classroom is a decent size,... | |
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Posted by: bittysis #137299
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| my classroom theme is camping this year. On my AR board, I used a red and white checked back ground to make it look like a picnic blanket. My saying was " AR is a Picnic". Every kid had a small paper plate with their names on it, and I pin their points on their plate. So, if Timmy has 23 points, I pin a 23 on his plate. I teach 1st grade, so this is a very visual way to display their points | |
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Camping out
Posted by: Lisa WA #60023
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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.
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Camping Theme
Posted by: Sam5 #122439
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I made my birthday chart last night. Remember my studnets are older and I am going more for a northwoods adventure theme. I used print shop and did a pine background(called winter pine) and then made wooden framed signs for each month with a little holiday decoration on them- example- Jan.- snowman. Then I just labeled it Happy Birthday! The banner is only 2 1/2 sheets long which is just right for my wall space limited room. I showed it to my teacher friend this morning. She thought it looked good without being too "cute."
I am working on my math posters now. Mine are from the teacher before me which I really appreciated she made and left for me to use. I used them for the last four years. However, they are at least five years old and looking pretty ugly. We are allowed to leave m... | |
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a few ideas
Posted by: hkinner #137157
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So far I have these ideas and most of them I have gotten them from other teacher’s web pages.
Camping with a good book-reading center.
S’more good work
I have also made two large trees in my room and on each leaf is a different letter and under the letter is the sight words we learn.
A tent in the reading center with flashlights and above the tent on the wall, I am going to put those white Christmas lights to make it look like stars. Under the lights will be black paper.
I was thinking of buying a few fake leafs or grass and placing them around the room and placing stuff animals around the room also.
My welcome board will be something like this…Look who’s camping in Ms._________ room. It will be a picture of a tent and names around it on kid... | |
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I have tons...
Posted by: lisakae2 #137312
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| of camping ideas. My classroom has been a camping theme for the past three years. Here's some of my BB titles: Camping Out with a Good Book, S'MORE GOOD WORK!! "Something to Chew On" (with a moose chewing on a piece of grass)...Hiking the Third Grade Trail (I use hiking boots in the hallway)....Happy Campers (use to display the kids pictures). Also I found some cute camping chairs and lanterns at Wal-mart. I make "Moose Munch" with cheetos, cheerios, and choc chips. The kids love it!! I have a bingo game that we call CAMPO - they also have a mad lib you could use that is all camping...and there are tons of cute books that are about camping. Mr. Magee's Camping Spree is my favortite and you can use Spree candy with it. What else???? Carson Dellosa has a couple of cute BB sets wi... | |
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Camping Theme Ideas
Posted by: Tina in OK #24777
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| We're doing a school-wide camping theme, too. I've been looking for ideas all summer. One of my favorites is a snack where you make a campfire starting with a large cookie. Add M and M's to make a fire ring, pretzels as kindling and cheez puffs for logs. Then "glue" candy corn on for flames. Also, my kids are going to make friendship bracelets on the first day, as they would at camp. They are going to make mini back packs out of brown paper lunch sacks to keep story bits in and at the end of the theme they will have all the bits to take home and share. I also found a first aid kit that you make in a film canister and a telescope made out of a paper towel roll. You punch holes in black paper to put on the end. The holes are a constellation. FYI- To keep the momentum going, I... | |
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Camp-Read-A Lot
Posted by: Sam5 #137298
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How old are your students? You could put something like a trail and say "Hiking the AR Trail" and have the students move their figure up the trail as they earn points. You could make a mountain and have "Climbing the AR Mountain" or make a river and "Rafting the AR River"
Or you could do something totally different than those and have each kid have a hat or backpack or vest and earn "badges" for the books they read like campers often do especially at boy scout or girl scout camp. I know you can buy genre badge stickers or else you could just use simple stickers you already have. | |
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Camping Ideas
Posted by: hhillhs #135839
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I did a Camp Learnalot theme last year. I chose to stick more with the "summer camp" theme, but I have other ideas that focused more on camping in general. I made a CAMP LEARNALOT logo if you are interested...Just post your email address, and I'll email the logo and the desk labels that I used.
We tie-dyed "camp shirts" at the beginning of the year and wore them on field trips and for special days (like field day) throughout the year.
Desk Labels...tie-dyed t-shirt shapes with the Camp Learnalot logo and the students' names.
Reading Area...
We had our "campfire" area where we did all of our get-together time...read aloud, morning meetings, sharing of journals, etc. I drew a tent, campfire, and pine trees on butcher paper and laminated them to last all year... | |
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campfire
Posted by: George #23287
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| I once made an electric campfire. In the middle of a small square piece of painted plywood, I mounted a standard light fixture. Then, I attached small "logs" around it log cabin style. I bought a red bulb and covered it with a little coat hanger frame covered with a piece of red gel (used for theatre lights). It looked very realistic. Today I'd use a compact fluorescent bulb so the bulb would stay cool. You could also make a non-electric campfire: A ring of rocks, small sticks arranged in tepee fashion surrounding a ball of red, orange and yellow tissue paper "flames" You could have a bucket nearby and explain the importance of fire safety. | |
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Camping BB
Posted by: Joanne/2nd/TX #40228
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| Get a cheap table cloth or make one out of material (I used a red and white checked with ants on it) and place paper plates on it with the things you want listed. Then draw you a large tent for the background. In your room, you could label things for the different parts of a camping ground or nature. You could make a tent from a refrigerator box and have blue throwrugs for water with plastic or silk flowers stapled on the wall. If you have centers, you could label them Wild flower poetry, Tall tree math, etc. There's lots of things you could bring into your curriculum to do with camping and learning. | |
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Camping
Posted by: Sherry #78085
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| My classroom is set up like a Camping Lodge. The sign on the front door says "Welcome to Mrs. Sarten's Lodge" and on the inside of the door are "Lodge Rules". In the winter we change it to a ski lodge. I use ice chests to hold the books in "Camp Read A Lot" with a tent and small camping chairs in that area. I have flashlights for the kids to use in the tent just for fun. (I teach 3rd grade). I use the hooked idea with "Hooked on Homework". I have sticky lizards on my ceiling and plastic bugs, smokey the bear, etc. all over the room. My bulletin boards are as follows: my discipline board has a canoe for each student with their name on it. In the canoe is 3 oars, 1st oar lost is a warning, 2nd oar is missing a recess, 3rd oar is visit to principals office or calling parents. That... | |
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Posted by: shelly #94051
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| We did this for a family fun night. We called the gym "camp read s'more." It was a lot of fun. Maybe you could use a small tent in your reading area. We also put flashlights in a tub nest to the tent. The kids loved it. My favorite part was "fishing for a good story." I made four ponds; who, did what, where, and when. I then put ideas on fish to go into the ponds (example: I wrote big hairy bear on a fish and put it in the who pond). The kids took turns fishing out a fish from each pond and then using those four fish to create stories. It was a great writing prompt and their imaginations soared. I made the ponds out of construction paper, laminated them and taped them to the floor. Then I just put the fish on top. If you need it for a bullitin board you could staple the pond on the bb then... | |
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Camping Fun
Posted by: BuzyBee #57522
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| 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 ...
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Camp fun!
Posted by: Catherine #12126
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| It would be fun to have the class write a song about their camp to the tune of "Hello Mother, Hello Father. Here we are at camp ________". I hope you know the song I mean. You could add verses throughout the year about adventures, field trips, and new things they learn. It would be a great end of the year program for them to act it out as they sing it. Or a fun class book. Other classroom ideas:
-tree stumps for the kids to sit on
-a pine tree or two on the walls or if you have extra room you could set up artificial christmas trees (not decorated of course)
-woodland stuffed animals and birds (you can find little birds at craft stores)
-your gathering area could be around the campfire (I know you can purchase fake campfires that light up with a light bulb but I am not sur... | |
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