WANTED! Cowpokes Who Love To Learn! - Western Back-To-School Display
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Photo Source: www.vickymoore2.com
Planning a cowboy/western theme for the coming year? We love this welcome board created Vicky, second grade teacher over at Mrs. Moore's Busy Bees! The personalized wanted posters, complete with portrait and bio, are super cute and are a great way to showcase your new cowpokes students!
Western Themed Welcome Bulletin Board
Background: Black bulletin board paper.
Title: "WANTED! Cowpokes Who Love To Learn!"
Border: Red bandana trimmer.
Decoration: Purchase or create wanted posters using word processing software. [NOTE: In a previous post - Kindergarten's Most Wanted- we described how we went about making our own!] If you create your own, it will be easier to insert a short bio about each student - i.e. "Bailey loves dogs and can often be found at the dog park with her family's labrador, Bruno. Beware! May be armed with knowledge!" These bios can be collected during your back-to-school open house/'meet the teacher' night. Additionally, provide students with fun western themed props and have a photo shoot, printing the resulting images in sepia tone and adding them to the posters. Here's a closer look at Vicky's wanted posters...
Photo Source: www.vickymoore2.com
Arrange the wanted posters around the board, finishing off the themed board with sheriff badge accents labeled with student names. These can be purchased or cut from yellow/gold construction paper.
I thought I was ordering the really big paw since it said large, but this is the small one about the size of my palm. I would recommend putting some thing next to the paw print to show size.
I needed good old basic letters to reinforce letter formation for older students (2nd grade) so I didn't want something too "kiddy" or a page full of graphics and less content. This fit the bill! Perfect :)
My 3 year old is really enjoying this activity. I like how she gets the reward of eating m&ms upon completion of the activity. The only improvement I would suggest is that each box could be a little bigger, to make it easier for little ones to point to each m&m and not mess up the count accidentally.