No Excuses: "University of Hawaii" College Theme

Our entire school follows the "No Excuses" program and each class has a college that we promote through out the year. My class is the University of Hawaii. Each class at our school has a flag that flies outside their classroom and dedicates a bulletin board to the college through out the whole year. In addition, students wear collegiate shirts (I'm going to tie-dye mine with the kids this year) and we kick off the school year with a huge college pep rally every September. I think it's a great idea. We encourage the students to embrace the idea that school does NOT end in Twelfth Grade.


This is my University of Hawaii bulletin board. I made the "H" logo and other letters on my Cricut.





Our poster for the college pep rally.


This is the year the kidlets will graduate--college. It hangs in our room all year long as a reminder.

"My Future Looks Bright" Sunglasses

Here's something I saw on Pinterest and tweaked for my classroom's needs. These are sunglasses we completed for Open House. They were tied into goals my kidlets set at the beginning of the year. Our whole school is part of the "No Excuses University" program in which we instill in the students all year long in every grade that school automatically includes college, no excuses. So many of the students wrote on their sunglasses from a perspective of being a senior citizen and looking back on their life and all they accomplished (where they went to college, what their major was, what their career was, and other successes.)





I made the master for the sunglasses by tracing around a pair of those big plastic sunglasses that they sell at The Dollar Tree. Then I just added lines for text. I photocopied them onto large construction paper. They were a big hit at Open House!