A few years ago I came up with this idea with the help of the art teacher at my school. Each classroom decides on a theme and then the students create poetry about the theme. Poems are typed (or handwritten), and then placed onto these towers. The towers are three sheets of cardboard (60 in x 20 in). We spray paint them and then fold and tape or staple them together. Notch them and then just slide them onto one another. These make an adorable display for April (it is poetry month, I think). To go hand in hand with the project, we compile all of the student poems into a school-wide anthology and give a copy of the anthology to each child! They LOVE it! They read those anthologies cover to cover!
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I adore this idea! I absolutely love Steve Jenkins books. I might try this using poetry with a Mother’s Day theme. This will be our second year to host a Mother’s Day Tea for our mothers in fourth grade and I can see these displays in the front of our library where we will hold our tea! Thank you for your inspirations you always have something that I can use. Keep it up!! My students LUV your math mats also?
Michelle
Where do you find the cardboard sheets
We found a local company so we could go pick them up, because the shipping was kind of high since they are over-sized. The cardboard sheets themselves are really cheap. We used Akers Packaging…http://www.akers-pkg.com/blueBox.html
Here is another source for them:
http://www.uline.com/Grp_38/Pads?pricode=WG512&gclid=CL-d98KyoK8CFYURNAodCyj9cA
Love your idea. Our school is housed in a church and we can’t leave things in the hall over the weekend, I see so many possibilities for your tower! Just curious-What are the white cubbies in the background of the third picture?
Those are my student mailboxes. It is a shoe cubby I got from Target. Very sturdy, I have had it for years!
This is a nice idea, but, can the children see the ones up high?
I teach 5th graders, so they have no problem with it. You could make the tower any height to accommodate any age or size.