Around the World class decorations, study

I have done an around the world study of countries with my class for the last two years.  I really enjoy it and the kids love learning about the other countries.  I found a lot of lesson ideas online but I also found this great book http://www.amazon.com/Children-Around-World-Countries-Languages/dp/1933052376/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1347768211&sr=8-10&keywords=field+trip+around+the+world that gave me great ideas and a jumping off point.  I also used these books for ideas: http://www.amazon.com/Around-World-Coloring-Dover-History/dp/0486439836/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1347768170&sr=8-8&keywords=around+the+world and http://www.amazon.com/Around-World-Art-Activities-Continents/dp/1885593457/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1347768170&sr=8-15&keywords=around+the+world .

This year I decided to have a decoration theme to my room. I have seen so many teachers do and I never did, but this year I decided to do it. I have had a bulletin board of kids around the world but this year I added to it and made it bigger:

I gotta say finding around the world stuff was difficult; the places I looked online and in the stores nearest me had pretty much nothing.  I have seem tons of frogs, lizards, and weird monsters but not around the world (or fairy tales, my other favorite but that is another post :)) I found the larger kids on Amazon and the smaller kids were an old set my mother had.  The little world was found at Knowledge Bound. 

For my students hanger name cards I decided to try and find something world themed but had no luck. So I took plain white index cards and put some passport type stamps on them that I found online. ( I do not remember the site at the moment but I will try and find it.) I put two on each card and then wrote the child's name on them.

When I do my around the world study with my kids I like to have a little display for the country we are studying.  I am slowly building collections for each one and right now some are better than others.  We are on Germany at the moment (new this year) and it is small but I hope to add to it.  It is on one of my shelves next to one of my maps, here is an example:

It has a nutcracker, flags, a cuckoo clock, hat, and lederhosen for the country.  I will update for each country. 

For our back to school night each teacher always has some sort of display outside their rooms with the students names.  I tried to find something around the world that I didn't already have up but no luck.  So I made a poster of a world with poster board, blue paper and continents I printed out that said Welcome Worldwide Learners! on it and had the children's names on little passports I copied from my Children Around the world book above on different colors of paper. 



I also had two welcome banners outside of my room that had flags of the world all over them; one said welcome in English and the other said welcome in different languages, I found it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X0QI1S/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00 . I think they are outside banners bu they looked fine and fold up nicely for next year.