This is our Vocabulary Parade! Each student was a letter of the alphabet. Some got to be the letter that starts their name. If there was more than one student with the same letter then we did rock, paper, scissors to see who got the letter. :) The whole school participates and goes around the town dressed as a vocabulary word. I was the word fairy. We came back to the classroom and made the letters into words. It was great seeing the students see how letters and sounds turn into words!!
I am using the @Carson-Dellosa Publishing Big Gun Ball Machine Bulletin Board set. It is very colorful and cute! It came with the gum ball machine, an overlay for the machine door, a bubble gum header and 32 gumballs in bright colors. It also has a reproducible of a gumball machine. I am using it in my classroom as an incentive for reading! I have written the student’s names on the gumballs. I put the names on with clips. I emailed all of the staff at my school and let them know about this bulletin board as you walk into my classroom. The staff can pick a student’s name off the machine and get that kid to read them a book from their book baggie in their chair pockets. I put a small box on the bulletin board for the “used gumballs”! That way all of the children will get picked before a second round. I can use the reproducible as a take home note to let the caregivers know that the students were reading to an adult. My students were VERY excited about this! They were ver
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