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If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you may remember this post about Fancy Nancy. Last year I didn’t start reading Fancy Nancy until April, but this year I was determined to start earlier. Well, it’s January and I actually did it 🙂 I have kind of changed up my bulletin board a bit.

I read a different Fancy Nancy book every Monday, while I’m dressed up as Fancy Nancy, of course. Here’s a flashback from last year for you.

Here is a sign of the times for you though…when I put on all of my Fancy Nancy items last Monday, one of my students asked me if I was dressed up as Lady Gaga! LOL!

Anyways, before reading the book, I write out the Fancy Nancy words on index cards and I introduce the words. After reading the book, I post the words and the book onto the bulletin board. We try to use these words during the week.

Here is the paper that the students fill out after our book. I tell the students to write their words as fancy as they can. Just click on the picture to download.

I still feel like I need to add more to my bulletin board. It needs to be fancier. Any ideas?

I had seen the idea for using the Fancy Nancy books to teach vocabulary and creating a Fancy Nancy Words bulletin board before. I had been wanting to implement it since forever ago, but just never did. So, this week I DID IT!! Wahoo! And, let me tell you, it is spectacular, splendid, and sensational (Those are fancy words for great!)

There are tons of Fancy Nancy books so I plan on reading one about twice a week until the end of the school year. Next year, I will start this MUCH earlier and do a different book each week.

I hit up Dollar Tree (big surprise) and bought these:

So, I can transform into this for each story.

I had one of my students take this picture, so it’s at a weird angle 🙂

I dress as Fancy Nancy for each story. (I looked for a boa and couldn’t find one, so Christmas garland worked, but as soon as I find a boa, you better believe I will be wearing it.)

I go through each book first to see which words I want to introduce. I write them on the board and we discuss them, that way the students can listen for the words while I am reading. After reading the book, we fill out our papers to add to our Fancy Nancy Word Book.

I tell them to write their words from the book in a fancy way.

The students are overjoyed (that’s a fancy word for happy) to get to try out their skills with cursive and bubble letters.