The Perfect Thanksgiving

One of my favorite Thanksgiving books is Eileen Spinelli’s The Perfect Thanksgiving. JoAnn Adinolfi illustrated it with bright colors and primitive drawings with mixed media collage. It is the story of two different Thanksgiving celebrations: the perfect holiday of Abigail Archer, and the imperfect one of the narrator. “Abigail Archer’s father… Continue reading

Mermaid Classroom Theme

Sea King's daughter

  Mermaids have captured our imaginations, and they make a fresh classroom theme. Start your bulletin board with an ocean backdrop. Add a scaly border. Mermaid tails are an alternative. Mermaid cutouts set the theme. We like to add iridescent bubbles. Carson Dellossa’s “Dive into Learning” set brings in divers… Continue reading

Dragons Classroom Theme

A dragon theme is a hot classroom theme for summer, and cool for any time of year. We haven’t found any ready-made bulletin board sets featuring dragons, but you can get creative with posters and party decorations. This scales border would be good: We found some online ideas for dragon… Continue reading

Unicorn Classroom Theme

Unicorns make us think of specialness, so they can make a great classroom theme. Fun Express makes unicorn bulletin board cutouts: The bulletin board set that goes with the unicorns doesn’t include more unicorns, but has a focus on magic and dreams: CTP has unicorn borders: Once you’ve chosen your… Continue reading