Great Expectations Eight Expectations in Cupcake Theme

Here is another creation for the Willy Wonka Theme, Candy Land or Cupcakes Theme. All images came from Bing!

Here is the files for printing! 

Willy Wonka Writers Eye Posters

Here is the latest posters for the Willy Wonka themed room. They have a candy background. I have printed and laminated them!

My Candy Alphabet!

I have been working hard trying to finish up my candy alphabet for my Willy Wonka themed room this year. Our school wide theme is "ticket to success" so the second grade settled on a Willy Wonka theme. I have high hopes! We have added two additional second grade teachers to our team this year making a total of six!! Last year I purchased two hanging lines for my room that come with colored plastic clothes pins (which I will be replacing with wooden painted ones). This past school year I hung some student work on the line but most went into the hallway. This year I came up with the idea of hanging a alphabet across the room to add a 3 dimensional effect. I created the alphabet using adobe photoshop and used photos of Willy Wonka candy in the background of the letters. It was a task. I printed two copies so that the alphabet could be seen from either side, then I laminated and trimmed. I will pin them to the line stretched across the room. I feel confident it will look awesome and everyone will be able to see it from any seat in the room. Each letter has a separate file so I can't post all the letters. Here they are!!

Bb has a background of Dots Candy

Cc has a background of Nerds Candy

Dd has a background of Pixie Stix Candy

Ee has a background of Laffy Taffy

 Gg has a background of Gummie Bears Candy

Wonka Crazy!

I am starting to get everything together for the new school year which starts for my district in about four weeks. I have begun this week getting a little Wonka crazy! I have created a "candy alphabet" to add to my candy expectations. I won't be able to take pics until I get in the room in about three weeks and I will share. I am making a list of Wonka ideas for the room which so far include: Golden ticket desk nameplates, Wonka's wonderful word tree with Wonka vocabulary gobbstoppers, Wonka Daily Five (Wonka read to self, Read to a Wonka partner, Wonka listen to reading, work on Wonka words and work on Wonka writing), Wonka's wonderful word journal label, Wonka mad science journals labels, Wonka's magic math journal labels, Wonka candy reading center and the Wonka class library, Wonka's daily wonky folder (behavior and homework), Wonka candy crates to sit on in the candy reading center, Wonka's writers eye posters and so much more!! I will post as I complete for anyone who may stumble across this site searching for Wonka theme ideas. I could not find any for classrooms but I found lots of birthday party stuff to give me ideas!

Wonka's Golden Ticket! Perfect for various uses in the classroom!

I am not sure what I am going to use this for just yet. I made it editable so that students names could be put in. These tickets could become part of a behavior reward system or just to put on the door with the students names on them! One other use I thought of was nameplates for their desks!!! ( I like this one the best)

My first Willy Wonka creation! Great Expectations Eight Principles Posters!

I am in full swing with creating things for my new room theme! I have created the great expectations eight principles posters! They are so awesome, or I think so! They are designed to print out on regular 8 1/2 x 11 paper, then just cut and laminate!!! Enjoy this freebie!!

More to come!!!

Links to docs for printing

I made it through my first year back!

This year has been crazy! I have been so busy I haven't had the time to keep up with my blog! I am trying to get into the groove of improving my time management skills. I will have plenty of time over the summer to blog ideas! Teacher pay Teachers has been an incredible resource for me throughout the entire year! I also have been following several teacher bloggers for great ideas! I have had to move rooms for next year and we finally have everything moved! We have two days of work left before our seven weeks of summer vacation begins and I am so ready! The school I work at instituted a school wide theme (seems more like a slogan to me) and this coming fall the new theme is going to be "The Winning Ticket". I was not big on having a theme because I like to be creative on my own but I did find some inspiration that has me already gearing up for the new year! I immediately thought about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Candyland! I pitched my idea to the second grade team which is adding two new team members and they are on board. If you have any ideas to share please do!!! I have hit the ground running with ideas. Last  night I watched the 2005 version of Willy Wonka with Johnny Depp and got tons of ideas! As this unfolds I will share! I couldn't find any other classroom themes online like this to draw ideas from but I did find plenty of birthday parties with the theme and even a few weddings??? Stay tuned!!! This is going to be fun!!