Word Walls!!!

We love our smart boards but they replaced much of our bulletin board space.  
This made finding an ideal location for our word wall a struggle.  

This year we decided to try putting our word wall directly above our alphabet.  

This way all of our kids will be able to easily see it! 

We bought this adorable alphabet from Lavinia Pop last year.  

It is part of her Back to School Chalkboard Bundle.  

Our classrooms were painted last summer 
so we no longer have bright white walls. 
This made the white word wall cards clash with our district's blah beige paint
so we decided to make them with a black background and bold white letters. 
We tried laminating the words but the light from the windows caused a glare. 
We ending up simply printing the word cards on card stock 
(and not laminating them) 
and tacking them up to the wall with sticky wax. 

We think the sticky wax works almost as well as a hot glue gun!

We are using the Fry's Sight Word Lists for our word wall. 
It matches closely with our spelling program 
and the most commonly used words in writing

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We have the words and small ABC headers for a word wall here. 
They are available with either a black or white background. 
We didn't use the headers but you may have more space 
for a word wall than we do!

Hope you enjoy the remainder of your summer!  Happy BTS!