Score Big with These Reflex Sports Bulletin Board Ideas
Looking for classroom bulletin board ideas? You’ve come to the right place! ExploreLearning has sports-themed bulletin board ideas to celebrate student growth with math fact fluency through Reflex. Extensive research has demonstrated the critical role of fact fluency in elementary school-level mathematics and beyond. So it's important to celebrate success along the way.
From goals to glory: Inspiring classroom bulletin board ideas for Reflex achievement
Elementary classrooms often have several bulletin boards to decorate and maintain throughout the school year. These bulletin boards serve valuable purposes but also add to the overwhelmingly long list of things on every teacher’s agenda. Sure, some teachers love bulletin boards. They regularly update them with colorful lettering and fresh bulletin board themes. Others need some bulletin board ideas for the classroom.
If you’re wondering how to structure a classroom bulletin board, figure out the goal, sports-pun intended. The classroom has four types of bulletin boards: decorative, display, informative, and interactive. With Reflex as the focus, a sports-themed bulletin board can be all four! Try these ideas for home runs with your class.
Winning with a Reflex football graph
Ms. Lisa Garcia teaches at Mountain View Elementary School in Albuquerque Public Schools, New Mexico, celebrating student progress and success with a fun Reflex football graph. The students have a mini helmet to represent where they are with addition and subtraction fact mastery. They score a touchdown at 200 facts on the football bulletin board. There’s even a mini Super Bowl Trophy for mastering 242 facts.
Shooting hoops
The Technology Coaches in Harrisonburg Public Schools in Virginia encourage Reflex usage and success by setting goals with the students and then celebrating as a class or grade level when students reach their goals. Certificates posted on a basketball bulletin board show student progress and celebrate success.
Going for the goal
A classroom or grade-level progress chart is an excellent way for the students to track progress with the goal of achieving 100% fluency.
Scoring a touchdown
A 3rd-grade teacher at Jackson Avenue Elementary in Mineola Union Free School District in Mineola, New York, used Super Bowl excitement to propel students to 100% fluency on Reflex! The students reported their fluency percentage on Reflex weekly, and helmets moved down the field towards 100% fluency or a touchdown. Four third-grade classes participated in the Reflex Bowl when teams competed to see which team would reach their goal of 100% fluency.
Hitting math fact fluency out of the park
A 4th-grade teacher at an elementary school in Osceola County School District, Florida, devised a unique way to celebrate her students’ math fact fluency. She created a Reflex baseball bulletin board with a baseball diamond at the center that says, “Watch the players score a run in multiplication and division fact fluency.” The bases stand for 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% fact fluency. Students have individual baseball players who move around the bases as they gain fluency. Players move on the 15th and the 30th of every month.
Gaining yards (and math facts)
Ms. Brittany Fangmeier set up a football-themed Reflex bulletin board to help track her students’ progress at Gulf Coast Charter Academy South in Collier County Public Schools, Florida. Her 3rd-grade students struggled with their math facts, so she used the board to encourage Reflex usage and celebrate success.
How about more sports bulletin board ideas? Tie your bulletin board to a sporting event or tradition in your school or district. You can even take a worldwide sporting focus with the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The Olympic hype is already there; might as well direct that excitement toward Reflex!
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