Four Inch Photos

Hello all! Today I am back in my favorite kindergarten classroom (let's call them Ms. L's class). I have had the pleasure of working with this group about 5 or 6 times so far this year. The best way to describe Ms. L's class as a whole would be joyful. (School starts in about 15 minutes so we'll have to see if I feel the same way about them at the end of the day!)

Today's great idea for teaching is - you guessed it! - four inch photos. In this classroom Ms. L. included each child's name on the word wall and with each name a four inch head shot of the student. I think this is a great way for students to feel ownership of the classroom and as a guest teacher it has been very helpful in learning names quickly. I think that I would make this a separate bulletin board in older grades (not part of the word wall), perhaps part of a hopes and dreams bulletin board, but still post pictures and names prominently.