Preparing for June's Rainy Season

Each school’s English board has a different purpose: an aide to the current lesson, with examples of what a poster can look like, or a showcase of culture: such as posters introducing holidays of the month, etc. My June poster has a little bit of both.

The main focus of my English board layout is the ‘Welcome to VT’ poster. My students have to make a similar poster for the final part of the current unit, and it’s a nice way to introduce where you’re from.

The second poster is made from printing out and laminating a Google PowerPoint presentation. I wanted to talk about the local animals you can find in Vermont, so I arranged some pics with a little bit of text (the text has a Japanese translation accompanying it, since the readers are Elementary students).

Lastly, I have a small cultural poster about Father’s Day and how it’s celebrated around the world. This one is also from an ALT friend!

Pro tip: laminate everything! Most school’s love to have windows open, and it gets super muggy here in Kagoshima!

Materials:

• 2 B4-sized blue poster paper (my school’s had a lovely shade of blue that went well with the greens of VT)

• Glue/Glue tape - from 100-yen store

• Printer - I used the BOE’s printer, since there was a lot of pics this time around

• Laminator - I used my school’s but if there are a lot of copies I need to laminate, I sometimes use the BOE’s laminator.