DOCUMENT RESUME ED 345 924 RC 018 702 TITLE Color Your Classroom VI. UniqueIdeas: A Guide to Innovative Teaching. INSTITUT:ON Mississippi Materials S ResourceCenter, Gulfport. SPONS AGENCY Department of Education, Washington,DC.; Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. PUB DATE 88 NOTE 139p.; Product of MississippiMigrant Education. For related documents, see Er 241223 and RC 018 699-703. PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use- Instructional Materials (For Learner) (051)-- Guides - Classroom Use - Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Art Activities; *BulletinBoards; Class Activities; Curriculum .r.uides; ElementarySecondary Education; *Learning Activities; *MathematicsSkills; *Migrant Education; Oral Language;*Reading Skills ABSTRACT This curriculum guidepresents ideas for classroom use with migrant studeni. Instructional bulletin board ideas are provided for reading, oral language, and math. Ideas fordecorating window shades are illustratedfor each of the nine monthsof the school year. Examples of shades that reinforce specificskills are also presented. A section on calendars offers suggestionsfor using monthly calendars as decorations as well as learning tools. "TheBook Section" contains instructions and patterns for artactivities which motivate students in reading and creative writing. Activitiesinclude bookmaking, for example: zip-lockbag books, "shape" books, and bookmarks. The final sectionof special projectsprovides directions for screen printing, filmmaking, color-lifttransparency, picture frames, sun catchers, and feltboard patterns. Activitieswhich address skills from the Migrant Student Record Transfer SystemSkills list contain the skillname and number, the objective,and directions. Each page ofthe guide is illustrated. 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Supervisor RayBishop, Project Williams, Coordinator Norris Project Regel, GuideSpecialist DorothyCurriculum andIllustrator AlfordGuel, Jeanette ofthe members tothestaff Center: credit andResourceBarnet Special Justine MatedaisLaycock, SuePerry, MississippiJoyce Randall, Mary Debra BettyHolmes, ofMississippi intheState Teachers Migrant andthe Center Resource 220 and P.O.Box Materials Mississippi Mississippi Gulfport,39502-0220 601-896-1211/1216 Or' Unique Ideas: A Guide To Innovative Teaching was developed in corre;ation with the numerical coding of the MSRTS Skills Lists published by the Migrant Student Record Transfer System. This publication has been paid for through Chapter I, ECIA, Migrant Education Funds, Section 143. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Department of Educatiai, and no official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education should be inferred. 4 ontents Bulletin BoardsReading "My Name Begins Like." ..... 32. 33 Introduction 1, 2. 3 Most Improved Batting 34 An Egg Is On Us 4 Hear Ye. Hear Yel . .35 Fishing For Books. 5 Around These United States . 36 In Apple Order 6 You Are Cordially Invited To Tea By The Sea. 37 Who-o-o Knows These Words School Bus Rules. 8 Bulletin Boards The American Experience 9 C:nl Language Talk Up A Good Book 10 Famcus White House Ghosts. 38 All About Me..... 11 h.& Story Of Old Glory. .39 It's Your Day 40 Prefix Pumpkin Patch 12 ....... Apple Pickin' Time .41 Crazy Alphabet . 13 Antonym Relatives . .42 Colorful Helpers. 14 Today's Menu 43 The Clown. 15 Here's What's Cookin' 44 Get A Line On Things To Come 16 This Room Has Class . 45 Vocabulary Garden 17 Just Hoppin' in.To Soy Happy Easter. .46 Let Freedom "Ring". ..... ....... .47 A Classy Graph. ............ 18 Citizen Of The Week 48 Wanti.cl, Safe Return of all Homework . 19 tiewitching Stories. 49 We've Up And Away 20 I'm A Star Student. ......... .50 Screaming Headfines. 21 Mickey's Book Club 51 The Five W's 22 . A Hand Of Thanks ............ .52 Made In The U S A. 23 0000000000... .53 Around The World With Books. .54 The Apple Of My Eye . ,24 Three Cheers For You . 55 Brush Up On Reading Skills . 25 Big Wheels In Room 12 . 56 We Know Our . A B C's 26 For Sale . .57 Map Matching. 27 Cinderella's Friends. ..58 Spelling Bloops and Blunders 28.29 Thoughts Of Valentine's Day. 59 My Historical Birthday.. 30 What's In A Name . .60 Are You A Democrat Or A Republican 61 Who 0 0 o o o....... 31 Contents January. February 91 Bulletin BoardsMath March. April 92 M & M's Plain Or Peanut Fractions. 62 May. June 93 The Big Cheese . ....... ...63 July 94 High Time. 64 August 95 Pinnochio's Register .65 Seasonal Calenclors-Autumn 96 We Can Count To. 100 . .66 Seasonal Calendars-Winter 97 Watch Us Grow 67 Seasonal Calendars--Spring . 98 The Temperature's Rising 68.69 Year-Round Calendar 99 Paintbrush Calendar 100 McMath 70 Do You Know All The Angles . Symmetrical Snowflakes ..72 Book Section Window Shades Bookmaking . 102 introduction, September 74 Lap Flannels . 103 October, November 75 Zip-loc Bag Books. 104 December, January 76 Bookmarks . 105 February, March 77 . ... Crayon WaH Hanging. .106 April. May. 78 Share Book introduction 107 Checkerboard Floorcloth 79 Shape Book Patterns . 108-115 Test-Taking Tips. 80 Here We Grow 81 Hug A Book 82 Special Projects Happy Birthday 83 Screen Printing. .118.119 Filmmaking . 120 Calendars Color-Litt Transparency. 121 Introduction 86,87 Picture Frame Kits 122.123 Calendar Grid 88 Sun Catchers and Invitations .124 September, October 89 Felt Board Construction 125 November, December 90 Felt Board Patterns 129, 130.131 6 Buwetin Boarws An exciting section of decorative, skill-related, and content bulletin boards Are you bulletin bored? Let bulletin boards be a motivational tool for your classroom. Bulletin boards can motivate your students, strengthen their self-concepts, improve their study skills and create an exciting, decorative and stimulating environment for your students. The bulletin boards presented in this book are teaching bulletin boards as well as decorative and easy to duplicate. All of the patterns in this book can be enlarged with an opaque projector. When using the opaque pro- jector, make sure you use the dull side of the poster board for coloring your picture to achieve clean lines. 8 2 Bulletin Bowl Tips Siudents love bulletin boards that display shiny objects, vividcolors, touch and feel ob- jects and 3-D effects. Hereare some suggestions: Background Materials crepe paper corrugated cardboard construction paper newsprint/newspaper foil wrapping paper tissue paper wallpaper road maps burlap felt netting sandpaper contact paper cork sheets fabric paper tablecloths Borders Many of the background materials listed abovecan be used to create a border for your bulletin boards. The borders shown on this page were made by using thescraps from the Ellison Letter Machine. More Border Materials twisted crepe paper twisted or braided yarn ruffled crepe paper artificial vines or flowers tinsel paper doilies cut in half cotton ribbon-paper flowers 3-I) Effects To make the 3-D effect, glue piecesof sponge or styrofoam on the back of the objects on the bulletin board. This will make them stand out from thebulletin board. More 3-D Materials glitter sandpaper flocked wallpaper cotton baskets boxes yarn 3 9 An Egg Is On Us! Skill #24o ReedingShort Vowels Objective: The student will identify the short sounds of the vowels a,e, 1, 0, u. Directions: This nonsense sentence and the visual representation of it will help thestudent remember the short sounds of the vowels, a, e, I, o andu. Have the students memorize the sentence for a ready reference of the short vowel sounds. 4 Fishing For Books Skill #860 Reading-- Appropriate ReadingSpeed Objective: The student will read easier materialfor pleasure. Directions: This bulletin board doublesas a reading motivator. Have each child make two constructionpaper fish in any color and print his nameacross the front. Tack one fish from eachstudent on the bulletin board. Take the other fish that the student made andattach a long piece of coloredyarn to each fish. Each time the studentreads another book he may make another fish and staple it to the length ofyarn. He also writes the name of his book on his fish. At the end ofa designated time period, the child with the longest "school" of fish winswhatelsea book! A Suggestion: Make a cardboard figure and dress himin faded cloth scraps wit)paper curls for hair and use a dowel and string forthe fishing pole. 511 In Apple Order In Apple Order Skill #520 ReadingSequence Objective: The student will identify the sequence of related pictures. Directions: Place the bright red apples and yellow worms in scrambled order on a vibrantlycol- ored background. Have the student arrange the objects in sequential order fromleft to right. Then have him write or tell a story about the sequence A Suggestion: Make the title unique by cutting the letters f-om a colorful fabric or textured