Our Book Recommendation Board: Revamped!

I stumbled upon Beth Newingham's website three years ago, and I have been using a book recommendation board in my classroom ever since!  I absolutely love her ideas... so I adapted them to fit my own classroom needs and management style.  Originally, I used clip art from Print Explosion Deluxe for my posters, but over time, I fell out of love with them.  I found much better clip art, and I felt that need to revamp my board! The kids love it no matter what!  I guess I'm just fickle!  :)

Here's the new view... so far.  It's kind of a work in progress.  I need to replace the monkeys and fix a few more things before I'll be totally thrilled with it!  This is still a huge improvement though!  If you uploaded my original packet... make sure to download the update!

I forgot to post our Mystery Box adventure.  I finally got to use Abby's lesson during our mystery unit last week!  Since we have been working on synthesizing, I put the nesting monkeys inside of the box.  The mystery box is also great for synthesis because the kids are able to see how their thinking changes with each clue.  Snapshot time!