These ideas and designs were heavily influenced by the awesome English boards made by ch_armander so please go look there for inspiration!
There are pdf versions of everything linked below. Two are meant to be printed on A4 and the other on A3 :)
This board includes:
A cute news story from Breaking News English. I included emojis to loosely indicate the meaning of words that may be difficult or just catch students' attention as they walk by.
A big holiday calendar for the month which is split across two A3 pages. Note that I'm from the States so a lot of the holidays included are the ones I was familiar with and could speak to accurately. There is a separate page meant to be printed on A4 with descriptions of each holiday with kanji for difficult and unfamiliar words which has all been checked by a native speaker
A fun trivia page with a bit of history about the etymology of the word July as well as details about the zodiacs and birthstones that fall within the month.
A mix of a cute survey for the kids to choose between comics and cartoons, I pinned some stickers up next to the page on the board and the kids vote by placing them.
A song of the month. The Spotify code at the bottom is scannable and will play automatically.
there is a page of cute designs (from PicMonkey) to cut out and fill dead space with.
I have a whiteboard with a marker attached to the larger English board and every time I'm at that school I switch out the questions to keep the kids engaged week to week. I'll put the questions I have planned for this month below. This is also a good opportunity to teach the kids how to use tally marks since they often default to writing 正.
Would you rather...
Be one year older or be one year younger?
Be famous or be happy?
Be a great athlete or be a great student?
Write books or draw pictures?
Have no homework or have a longer summer break?
Have a pet dinosaur or have a pet dragon?
If you have questions, find mistakes, or would like access to raw copies of anything please let me know!
Enjoy!
FYI, your July callendar can be printed into a huge poster size if you upload it normally (into a word or pdf file) without spliting it up into two pages. Using the printer properties settings. Any paper size e.g. A4 even, can be printed into a large poster.
if you do make another version, maybe add both the 4th of July (USA) and Canada Day (Canada).