Monday Made It! Student picture frames

Linking up for the summer's first weekly Monday Made It!! Don't you love summer and gettin' your craft on?

So a couple months ago I found this CUTE bulletin board at Learning in Wonderland. I LOVE IT!

I LOVE this wall and want to do the same thing in my room next year. So I found these super cute damask frames on Etsy

I printed, laminated and cut cut cut! And here are some of the frames for my bulletin board which will be a bright blue background with white and black border...

My students will be writing about themselves and switching out the paragraph underneath their frame during work on writing time. I'm excited about the student recognition and the sense of belonging this will bring to my classroom. The writing about yourself to display for other students to read is also a great incentive for writing.

How do you recognize your students in your classroom?

Awesome Ideas from Others

Mystery Student from My Life as a Third Grade Teacher.




Student Incentives with a Book Raffle from Lesson Plan SOS.


I loved this one, so I made my own...

See the post here.




This is going to be my door next Fall!

Marvelous Monday Made It!

First, we have been reviewing Main Idea, Theme and Topic. My kids just keep needing review on these three things. So I update my anchor chart to include the Clues section and it has helped a ton. See the original post here. I will update tomorrow with my theme/topic anchor chart.

Next, I mentioned YPP a couple weeks ago and be prepared to be amazed by this wonderful tool! Here is quick overview...
-Students test weekly on Common Core standards. Yes, weekly and it is SO worth it!
-By doing the weekly tests students are able to track their progress and the teacher is able to see if concepts are being understood.
-The students are awarded dots. Green for mastery, yellow for proficient and red for lacking.

What I like about YPP
-I can break it down to see EXACTLY which concepts my students are missing.
-This drives my curriculum and my intervention.
-Since the first of January my students have increased their yellow and green dots. I am seeing kids excited about learning!
-Students have come to me individually to ask about a concept they missed on testing and want me to teach it to them.

I also do a competition depending upon percentages. If the class percentage increases they are rewarded a point. If it decreases then a point is taken away. My students are working their butts off to improve. I wish I could show you the percentages but I didn't feel right about it. Seeing the other class percentages is a huge motivation too!!

This is my YPP board where the percentages are. Below the dots I have the top students.

Whenever a kid gets a green dot (they can get a total of 5 per week) they receive a Green Dot Ticket and a gobstopper from my gumball machine for every green dot earned. The ticket can be entered for any of these 6 drawings.

The books were ordered using my points and then there are a couple treat bags. My kids are loving this!!

That is all. Kind of a different Monday Made It this month, but it works!! Now I need to get in gear and make Valentine's stuff. Just a little behind :)