Here are some of the materials that I made for my September English Board in case anyone wanted some ideas or easy printable material for their own board! I also added a picture of my board for reference of how I set everything up.
Pretty simple this month, just the usual vote, trivia, song of the month, calendar (blank and filled with some international days of the month), and a simple back to school thing about Canada (idk if it was different for other people but my school year typically ended at the end of June so that's what I put). I did change the trivia/moon thing to have 2 different size options, since I had some trouble with them taking up too much space in the previous months.
A lot of the information for this board came from this website:
https://web-holidays.com/
The news story is from here: (they have a lot of good resources and you can change the stories to various difficulty levels so I highly recommend it)
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/
I hope you'll find these useful!
Again, if you have any song recommendations or news articles for future months I would love to know them! I'm always struggling to find a song for the month.
Here is a link to the Canva template if you want to make your own edits!
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFtomZwZFA/7KkOE2N0ouDXPqTu5ce7MQ/view?utm_content=DAFtomZwZFA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink&mode=preview
I like this a lot! However, I can't open the png. I don't know if it's just my computer having the problem or the file.
@srunyon415 I think it's the file itself. I can't open the file either.
OMG!!!! Thank you so much for this idea!! I have two English boards at one of my schools and I ALWAYS struggle to think of enough ideas. I really love the crocodile foot ramen idea! I will deff be using trivia and news articles for my second english board, thank you!
That crocodile ramen story is great!
Ewww! Crocodile Ramen! Thats disgusting! ...I love it. Seriously though, thanks for these. With all the materials I need to make on a daily basis, being able to download these colourful eye-catching efforts lowers my blood-pressure. Cheers for all the effort!
Sorry! I think I fixed the PNG issue (hopefully).
Hello! I'm a new ALT and I was wondering what programs would you recommend to use to make these graphics? Just Microsoft Word?
I edited the png file to turn it into a smaller jpeg file, so it should be counted as a "small file" now.
Opening the pdf and getting slapped in the face by an image of Twice 10/10, love it lol
Thank you Jake! I have no idea why the png was so big, I'll be careful of that in the future. ∧∧;
jjlpeters: I use Canva for most of my stuff (English board, worksheets, simple presentations), but Microsoft Word works well too!
Love this!! Would you be comfortable linking your Canva doc so I could make tweaks to fit my school more easily?
This looks wonderful! I found myself getting super burned out with the boards I had been making and this gave me inspo to make them fun and engaging again. Thank you!
Thank you! Wonderful ideas :)
My students (and teachers) loved the crocodile ramen photo! It got a lot of engagement :) Thanks for your hard work