In my classroom I have created a writing station that it is set up all year long.  We use the Step up to Writing program so you’ll see in the picture that I have included the reminders for each step on the stop sign.  Then I have 3 checklists that are removable from the board.  Each checklist is laminated.  I punched a hole through the top and used a notecard ring to bind them together.
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I created these monsters with my students.  I got the idea from this great blog.  

She spray painted her tissue boxes, but I wrapped mine with wrapping paper and cut out the paper where the hole was.  She also used hers at "tattle monsters" but I had each of my students create a monster and then write a story about him/her.  The kids LOVED this project from start to finish.  They were even done in time to display at Open House.  

Here's a bulletin board I created about helping, linking, and action verbs. I used samples straight from my students.  I broke them up into 3 large groups, and they had to come up with 5 samples using each of the 3 different kinds of sentences.  Then I created my bulletin board using some of the sentences they created.

Here's a bulletin board I created about comparing fractions.  I broke my students up into 6 groups and gave each group a different color of sentence strips (for example, group 1 received all yellow, group 2 received all pink, etc.).  Their job was to fold each of their sentence strips into halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, and eighths.  Then I collected one sentence strip from each group to display and the picture above shows the final result.  

Here are my bulletin boards I put up at Open House to display my students' work on California Missions.

Here is a bulletin board using students' diagrams of the water cycle.