It’s Monday again – my last official day of summer, even though we have open house tonight – and time for another Monday Made It with Tara at
Fourth Grade Frolics.
This week, I made two projects. The first was inspired by
this post at Lessons with Laughter. It’s a Homework Club board. I’ve seen several bloggers posting about Homework Club boards and I’m excited to start one in my own room. I followed my blue and green with stars theme for my board by painting the pan blue and adding some green ribbon. I don’t have pictures of these steps, but here’s the finished board.
For the magnets, I bought a collection of wooden stars from Jo-Ann’s and painted them green.
I painted by hand, which was silly. I totally should have used spray paint! Then I added numbers with a silver sharpie, glued the magnets to the back, and clear coated the final product.
Project number two was a sign for my classroom door. I’m not 100% thrilled with how it turned out, but it’s cuter than having nothing there.
This year, I am starting The Homework Club in my room. It is inspired by this post
at Lessons with Laughter. If the kids
keep their magnets on the homework club board for the whole month, their reward
is to choose from a variety of reward coupons. I made reward
coupons for things like “Sit in the rocking chair for a lesson,” “Lunch with
the teacher,” and “Skip morning work.” 
