While I tend to stay away from bulletin boards with expiration dates, after Christmas, I wasn't ready for the department to revert back to its non-holiday self. This board only took a few hours to prepare. It did take a good deal of cutting. (My hearts are comprised of 4 different colors: white, red, pink and light pink.). .

  This concept is thanks to Teachinginhighheels and Teacher Created Resources for sharing this bulletin board: For my board, I wanted it to have a passive program element so kids were invited to answer the ground-breaking question of, "If you had a superpower, what would it be?"   There were some really cute responses too!  To make the action bubbles, I cut

 One of the crafts we set out for Black History Month was this 28 Days of Black History booklet. It was loosely inspired by Tanya G Marshall's resources to go along with 28 Days: Moments In Black History That Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr. This is mainly biographical but does include one page for the Tuskegee

 While not all of these picture books were published in 2021, they are newer titles (published within the last 5 years or so) and are stand-out books based on artwork, humor, theme or general story. Here are my favorites of 2021 in no particular order!

 BOOK:In this one, we read the narrative non-fiction book, "Teddy: The Remarkable Tale of a President, a Cartoonist, a Toymaker and a Bear" by James Sage.This book is about how Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a captured bear led to a comic and how that comic led to a husband/wife pair creating Teddy Bears.Honestly, this book probably falls