March English Board

March in Japan is the season of cherry blossoms and graduations. It is the end of the school year, and it can be extremely busy or painfully slow depending on your ALT responsibilities (and what the Japanese teacher asks of you). I decided to work on an ambitious large poster project, which turned out rather well: a poster about baby animals.

I ended up using word documents to gather my images and sentences explaining what you call a certain animal as a baby (ie. ‘A dog is called a puppy’). I would then print out with my Board of Education’s (BOE for short) color printer and cut them out individually, before using the double-sided tape to place the pictures on a nice pastel-colored background.

At first it was a single large poster, but I then decided to cut each picture out individually so I would have more flexibility with the size and position of the poster. After all, all five of my schools have different-sized English board areas.

At one of my schools, it ended up looking like this:

I once again had the help of my fellow ALTs and teachers to fill up the rest of the board with a lovely ‘Congratulations on Graduating’ poster, a beautiful set of picture cards depicting the seasons, and a cherry blossom tree filled with inspirational words from the students (that of course, look like cherry blossom flowers).

I really love the quote my co-worker used! Thank you, sensei!

I had fun thinking of how to display the graduation message!~

My materials:

• Large green poster paper (that does not curl in humid weather)

• Random poster paper (pastel colors for spring)

• Double-sided tape

Thanks for reading!