The fall season provides teaches with a lot of natural topic ideas for bulletin boards that can introduce, review and reinforce a variety of topics. Simply taking a walk outside can provide numerous ideas. Here are a few to get teachers started.
Fall Leaves Bulletin Board
Decorating a bulletin board with cutouts of fall leaves is a great idea, but teachers can take this idea a step further and use the leaves as a teaching method. In writing class, students can learn how to write a poem and have the final draft be written on a leaf for display. Students can also use the points on the leaf as a tool to remember the editing process. Teachers can use the leaf as a final draft option for any number of short writing assignments.
In science class, teachers can use leaves to teach about various parts of the tree, with a science fact on each leaf surrounding the trunk of a tree. In history class teacher can use leaves to discuss a variety of information that students will learn in a given unit. Hinging the leaves so that students can lift them from the bulletin board can also make the display interactive, allowing for review with question and answer.
Math Bulletin Board Ideas for Fall
Using a variety of shapes that the fall season brings, teachers can create a unique display teaching lines of symmetry. Some ideas to include on this display include leaves, acorns, pumpkins and apples. For more ideas, have students go on a nature scavenger hunt for shapes that can be included on the bulletin board.
Teach the order of operations by displaying cutouts of a paper person dressing for chilly weather. Knowing that the shirt and pants go on first, before the jacket and hat can help reinforce the fact that multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction. While it may seem silly to the students, if done right, they are not likely to forget.
Kindergarten Bulletin Board Ideas
While not strictly a fall idea, having a weather bulletin board is essential in a primary classroom. Items that should be on display include a visual weather option: sun, cloud, rain and snow. Also, a paper person will help illustrate the temperature with option for swim suit, shorts and a tee-shirt, long sleeves and pants, a jacket and a heavy coat for students to connect the temperature with the clothes they wear.
Teachers can also include a produce section so that students learn what can grow during each season. A ground display can reinforce the growing season, with colored leaves to represent the fall, no leaves and possibly snow for the ground during winter and so on.
The more creative teachers get with their bulletin board displays, the more learning opportunities students will have. Nature brings the best ideas for learning to the classroom, so when looking for more ideas, teachers can take a walk and see what colors, shapes and objects stand out.
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Jennifer Wagaman - Jennifer is a mother of 2 and has both public, private and administrative experience in the education field.
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