Hey there again! I am back with a new quick idea for your back to school classroom! Today I wanted to share with you my whiteboard word wall! You know how blessed you when you inherit a classroom that is teacher-ready?! Well, my classroom already had the taped out word wall so my hard was already over 😉
If you are interested in doing a whiteboard word wall you can measure and tape it out with black electrical tape- yes this is the hard part!
This year I decided to update my border and word wall letters! A quick tip I have for attaching your border to your whiteboard would be to use a hot glue gun! They are fabulous! The border will stick with no “bowing.” Also, when you are ready to take it down it will pull right off…not leaving a sticky residue like tape does!
This year I went with a chalkboard theme for my word wall letters! I also hot glued them to the board because I didn’t want to spend hours next time peeling off tape 🙁 For the words on my word wall I simply write the word with my dry-erase marker. I know most do cards, but I have found that I can get the words in a largest format by just writing them!
The word wall labels are a free download! You can click below to grab those!
If you have additional questions on my whiteboard wall wall please email me or comment below! Also, view my previous back to school post below! 🙂
I did the electrical tape thing last year and had to take it down for summer construction! I'm not looking forward to having to do it again! Loving all of these great ideas, thank you!
-Andrea
Hot glue gun! That is brilliant I have the same borders on my word wall and used magnets last year, but not enough. They fell down a lot! I can't wait to get into my classroom. One more week.
Kelly
MyFabulousClass
Three years ago I switched my Word Wall from a large bulletin board to a smaller white board. The benefit: kiddos could better reach all the words and even remove them, taking them to their seat or a center as needed.
The first year I measured (3 rows/8 columns) and identified the sections by yarn pulled taunt and stapled on the outside edges of the white board and covered by bulletin board border. The second year I tried electrical tape. Worked well until I was moved to a new classroom at the end of the year and had to remove it! UGH! It was INSANE! I will never use electrical tape again! So this year, in my new classroom, I tried painter's tape. So far, so good. No yucky reside lurking behind when I needed to remove a piece of the tape.
I really like your ABC labels. They look great against the whiteboard with black tape dividers!
what are your measurements for the electrical tape? That's always my biggest problem!
Sara,
Here are the measurements using 1 inch tape each rectangles inside the tape is 8 inches wide and 10 inches long!
Hi Tara,
I've had my word wall like this for the past 2 years and the students love it because it is so big, they refer to it constantly! The only difference about mine is that I make the vowels a different color (I did red last year) so that they stand out and students recognize that the vowels are the most important letters. Thanks for sharing your ideas, I always look forward to reading your blog posts!! 🙂
Thank you so much for the word wall freebie – I am moving to a new classroom and am not sure how I am going to set up my word wall yet but I love these!! Thanks!
I have NO wall space…. and NO white board space… lol. I have NO clue how i'm going to do my word wall.. I may just have ot use my Spelling Journals and make sure to let my admin know that the kids have personal word walls in their desks. lol
♥ Jen
Teacher by the Beach
Try the ceiling.. seriously. I had seen it somewhere on pintrest. I seriously thought about doing it.
Can I ask you how you use word walls? Which words are you writing on it and how do the children use them? I will be a teacher next year in Germany and I love reading the blog to get many ideas and input… Thank you
Janine, I only write our sight words that we cover throughout the year. I know others include student names and math vocabulary. Mine is a limited on space so that is why I just do sight words 🙂
Tara
I love how your wall looks! Please post more photos of your room, love your ideas!!
This is fabulous! Hot glue doesn't melt the whiteboard? Have you also tried hot glue on walls, wooden furniture, and plastic furniture? I might go hot glue crazy and put all my labels up with hot glue instead of tape, so it does't leave the sticky residue at the end of the year.