Camping Literacy Night Bulletin Board with Family Reading Pledges
I’ve been a terrible Literacy Coach. Two weeks ago, I spent the whole week helping administer TELPAS. This week, I spent my time hopping around at our STAAR Celebration Pep Rallies and administering the Math and Writing STAARs. So I haven’t done that much literacy stuff.
I did get a little schooling from a second grader, though. As I handed out the district’s media disclaimer during the TELPAS, I said, “Please sign your name on the line. This means you don’t have a cell phone with you.”
One of the kids gave me a smarty-pants look. “We’re second graders,” he said. “We don’t have cell phones!”
Sheesh. It wasn’t my idea, okay?
Today was my first normal day in a couple weeks. It was nice. I got to work and I was like, “What do I do here? (When I’m not giving tests?)”
I didn’t have long to wonder. As I stood, hesitating in my doorway, the day came and hit me in the face and I managed to fill it with planning with teachers, meetings, and working on my very sadly delayed “Camp Read-a-Lot” bulletin board.
Camping Literacy Night Bulletin Board
I’ve been sitting on this board for a couple weeks. What with meeting with my groups, planning, paperwork, and testing, it’s been a month since our Literacy Night actually happened! So today I gathered my butcher paper, family reading pledges from the Literacy Night, and put together my board! I can only hope the kids actually remember what it is. Short attention spans…
For the stations and activities from the night behind this camping literacy night bulletin board, read about our Camp Read-a-Lot family literacy night ideas in a camping theme.
The board was a bit too long to actually capture it all. I tried that panoramic thing, but it made it look a little curvy, so we’re stuck with an angled shot!
Student Puppets and Book Cover on the Reading Pledge Board
I added the little puppets the kids made and I stapled up the cover from the book we used, A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee!
Grab the bulletin board materials!
Butcher Paper Tent for a 3-D Camping Literacy Night Bulletin Board
I made a tent out of butcher paper and cut a little flap to add some 3-Dness!
Get the Camping Family Literacy Night Materials
Check out the materials to have your own Camp Read-a-Lot Literacy Night, Super Family Literacy Night, or Roll Out the Red Carpet for Literacy Night!
Want more ideas? See these family literacy night theme ideas.
Your post just gave me a great idea as I've just come out of a camp meeting (we head off to camp in about six weeks)… But the teachers get to go visit and have a look around in the next week or two- and therefore in the first couple of weeks of next term (I'm in NZ so we've got 2 weeks of school now, then 2 weeks holiday, then into term 2) I can base my literacy program around camp- because I hate starting something like novel studies and then a week or two later having the flow lost because of a week at camp.
Summarising of information they read about the activities available, procedural writing based around camp, development of new and exciting camp activities etc. Yay! You've just given me a heap of inspiration! Then I can start my regular programme in week 4 once camp is done and dusted 🙂
I can't believe that grade 2 kids have to sign cell phone waivers! That's so intense!
I'm going to go and have a read through your other posts now! I'm in charge of re-vamping the library this year so some of your literacy based posts could spark some more inspiration for me!
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Serena,
How did everything go?