March: Dive Into Reading Display

During the month of march my school has a two week Interim. The students all go on exciting trips around the world as well as participating in unique activities. This year a few of our trips focused on water: scuba diving, surfing...... so the idea for this display was easy! Dive into reading!

I cut out the waves, fish and title using the Silhouette Cameo. Because Interim is all about the activities that the students will be experiencing we like to make a display with books on each topic. I used the Silhouette Cameo to print out the name of each excursion on a fish and then cut out that fish. I place each fish under the corresponding book on the display.

We had lots of fish! The display turned out really cute. You could easily take this same idea and just leave the fish blank!

Bulletin Board: Dive Into Reading!

Dive into reading this summer! Over the summer I am working as a teacher/librarian for a K-5 private school. For the library's bulletin board I came up with "Dive into Reading." Using ocean/diving/swimming themed books that the library had, I created this cute bulletin board.

For the fish/ sea creatures I googled "baby fish" "ocean nursery" "sea creatures" and I also looked at examples on Pinterest and Etsy. I drew some of the creatures myself like the octopus and crab. You might notice that a few of the fish are from Dr. Seuss books. I cut out all the fish and drew on faces using a sharpie. Then I cut out starfish, seaweed and rocks. I chose to cut out larger letters than the 4" punches that the school had available.

I used the following books, I found the cover images online and printed them out and then added a colors piece of craft paper behind each one:

Samson the Hot Tub Bear by Wendy Tokuda

                                                       Sea of Dreams by Dennis Nolan

Samantha the Swimming Fairy by Daisy Meadows

                                                   The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Dark Day in the Deep Sea by Mary Pope Osborne

                                                The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki

                              Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha! by Barbara Park

Ladybug Girl at the Beach by David Soman and Jacky Davis

                                      The Seals That Wouldn't Swim by Steve Brezenoff

The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler

  The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen