Almost Done Setting Up

I have been working hard to get everything set up in my room. Tomorrow is the last day before the teachers officially have to go back. I would like my room to be done before that. I wanted to share a couple of things that I did for my bulletin boards. I found the ideas on Pinterest and went with them. Since my students will be working with technology, I wanted to make sure I included a little bit of digital citizenship on my walls. I put up the Before you . . . THINK board on my cabinet.

I used pre-cut letters and printed all of the icons that I thought were relevant to sixth grade. I'm sure there are a million more but I wanted to keep it pretty simple. It also gets the idea across without making it overwhelming with icons. I printed the questions that went along with THINK. This is one that I will leave up and refer to for the entire school year.

The other board that I did was a play on a Wordle. I enjoy word clouds. I plan on using them a lot with my students. I want them to use it as a way to look at their writing to see if there are words that they use more than they should or to see if the general ideas they were trying to get across are really the ideas that they have written about. The bulletin board is on Pinterest in a bunch of different ways. This is my version of the board.

I got a lot of compliments on it today so I think it will go over well. I feel like my room is coming together. I'll post one last time about set up after everything is completely ready. It is at a point now that if I clean up and put all my stuff away, I'll be ready for parents and students to check out the room on our Curiosity Day.