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[fakeplastiktree]

I teach at a public middle school in Seoul. When I started last semester, halfway through the school year, there were already decorations on the wall from the last teacher. Now that I'm starting a new semester, I'd like to put some new decorations on the wall but I'm totally drawing a blank. Does anyone have any ideas or helpful links? Thanks!

[egrog1717]

Looking around my classroom, I've got:
Letters of the alphabet w/ pictures
Numbers 1-10 w/ pictures
An assortement of pictures I've been bored enough to draw over the last year, most of which have some sort of message like "English is fun" lol...
Some letters/drawings my students have done for me
Classroom rules

[JBomb]

We got pictures on the wall of famous buildings in France and Rome and whatever. I guess it is supposed to be inspiring or something.

[Kaypea]

If you can, reserve a class every now and then for poster making. I find the students are very visually creative and they don't need a lot of direction for poster making. Just tell them what English words are manditory for the posters. Eg: they're making months of the year poster, have them write the name of the month and a sentence using 3 adjectives about that month (simple is best-uh).

Good poster themes: months of the year, seasons, zodiac signs, animals, countries of the world, food, careers...

If you want the posters to look really good, get some firm, colorful paper to use as poster backing, in many different colours. Provide enough colourful construction paper for the students to trace out letter and pictures to put on the posters. Provide scissors and those blade things that allow you to cut out curvy shapes. If you want, print out coloring-book style pictures that kids can colour and add to the posters, if they don't feel that they're good at drawing.


Again, you really don't need to give the students a lot of direction with poster making, as long as they have fun materials, simple requirements for English on the posters, enough table space to create the posters...

You can also display less decorative students work on your walls, ie well-completed worksheets and stuff like that, and keep it a rotating thing. I think students really like to see their work on the walls, and it makes you look like a good teacher, because you're showing how much English is produced in your class!

[blackjack]

If you have time get the the students to make it, if possible make it part of the lesson.

For each class have a section of the wall/pinboard, print off a bunch of worksheets (mine are A4 with half of it a box for a picture and half with lines for words). with big public school classes break them up into groups of twos or fours. Update every few weeks or months, you can even give prizes for the best posters

Do this with the oldest classes and this looks good any parents that come in, when you get drop in visits from the principal and gives the younger kids something to ohh and ahh about

[ddeubel]

Try -

Wall of Words (basically chart paper where students can write English graffiti)

Jan Brett for amazing alphabet graphics

PPTs with vocab items can be printed out (hit File - Print Preview - #/slide - Print).

Lots of posters etc on our own EFL classroom. Just search posters here - http://eflclassroom.ning.com/page/search-1

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[ChilgokBlackHole]