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Too much clutter just confuses kids and if they need to find something posted on the wall they can’t focus enough to find it. I would keep changing out your bulletin boards to reflect what is being taught. Also let the kids participate and design the boards – let them have a say in what goes up. One thing I did was to put a huge red heart up on the board – one I could take down in a moment. All their names were written on it. When someone said something unkind to another person I would take the heart down and crumple it up. Open it back up and hang it again. The first one lasted about a month. It literally fell apart. The second on lasted 4 months and the kids got a pizza party for making it last three. The next one lasted until the end of the year. It was a good reminder of the rewards for being kind to one another. It showed them how saying “mean” things put cracks into another persons self-image. Hope this helps a little. Melanie