Polar Express 2019

Image from here.

Last year, I turned my classroom into the Polar Express. Last year, I was also teaching first grade.  Since I'm in third grade this year - and in a new classroom, I decided to change it up a little bit.  I wanted every scene from the book hanging up in my room.  I thankfully had parent help creating the scenes and hanging them up.  (THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!)  The students helped with coloring and painting.

I read the book for them in the morning - and they pointed out every single scene while I was reading.
During the movie, they would shout out, "Mrs. Lynch! That scene is over there!" and they would point to that scene.

We had a great discussion afterwards where we compared book and movie. "Why wasn't that in the book?"  "Why is Pennywise in the movie?"  "Where are his friends in the book?"  The questions kept on coming!

Without further ado, here is a tour of my room:

The first two pictures are actually one - I just couldn't get it in one photo since it wrapped around the corner!

The wolf scene was one that I made last year.

This was made last year (by my co-teacher.)

I made this last year as well.  It was cut into two pieces to fit on the sides of my Promethean Board.

Again, I had to cut this picture to fit on the sides of my Promethean Board.

I ran out of space in my room so I had to put these two scenes on top of each other.

My favorite. 

I also have a video tour which you can see here.  When you watch the video, you can see how I set up the rest of the room - especially when it was time to watch the movie and enjoy our snacks! 

They enjoyed themselves today! :-) 

Have a wonderful holiday - no matter what you celebrate!

Happy New Year!