The who's in the room boards are very popular right now and are a great way to quickly see where all your students are. I've had one in my room for several years and as always it matches my theme. The past two years I've just used a magnetic dry erase board, but this year I wanted something a little different. Last summer I was introduced to Ikea during a shopping trip to Texas!!!! Wow, is all I can say!!! I could spend a whole day in there and still not see everything!!! My teammates and I found a perfect metal magnetic board that would be great for our who's in the room boards and it was only $12.99!
After getting my board I bought some ribbon to hot glue around the boarder of my board. The next project was to make labels of where students would be in the school. I used my Happy Honey Bee Collection from School Girl Style to make the ones I needed. I then laminated, cut and hot glued them on to my board. I then needed something to divide the sections on the board. While at Office Depot I ran across this cute bee themed thin duct tape that would be perfect! The last thing was to glue student numbers to magnets. I found these Polka Dot Bottle Cap Numbers on Teachers Pay Teachers. I printed, laminated, cut, and then I used E6000 glue to glue them to the magnets.
After taking it to my room I used command hooks to hang my board. I really thought it would hold because the board couldn't be more then 5 pounds, but every time I came back in it had fallen down. I was getting so frustrated!! So my sweet husband came in and did some "rigging" and let's just say that thing will not be coming off the wall anytime soon!
My students have been using it for a week now and it's working perfectly!
