#classroom display

Kinda glad my kids are too young to tease me about this.

On the other thought...some of the older ones might.

Graduation Board – Space Theme

Well, it’s that time again. The babies are leaving the nest. It gets harder every year, because I’ve been with that group of kids longer. I’ve taught this group of kiddos since they were in 4th grade. Those little twerps have grown so much *sobs* Okay, time to hold back all my sniffles (until the actual graduation ceremony). Last year, I had the idea to write all the graduate’s names on some…

Summer English Board – Version 2

We’re back from summer break! But of course it’s still hot as hell and we’re all kind of sluggishly dragging ourselves around. Huzzah.

This English board has a lot of elements from last year’s summer board, with a couple new sections.

The first section is from last year – what various characters like doing in the summer. It’s fairly simple, and is mainly intended as a cute vocabulary…

This year, I decided not to reuse my summer English board materials and start from scratch. Buuut I may have gotten a little too involved in enjoying the theme and kinda…..left the education bit by the side of the road. So this is by far the least educational board I’ve ever made. But it’s so cute!

Ta-da! Here is my beach display!

I just covered the wall in construction paper to make my…

First up, because of the release of Animal Crossing New Horizons and my continued frustration that I don’t own it, I made an Animal Crossing hanami scene.

We can’t hanami, but we sure can still stick cherry blossoms on every available surface! After some digging around, I’ve discovered that the Animal Crossing font is called Fink Heavy and you can download it for free off some font databases.

Next, I have a polling section where students can use stickers to say what they did over their very, very long spring break. I came up with six general options, which I’m sure means that I’ll have kids coming up to me and pointing out that they did things other than what’s on the board.

Finally, I have a small “welcome back to school” sign on the opposing wall.

I have no idea when the students will be back/if it will still be spring/if all this work was pointless. But honestly, it’s not like I didn’t have 40 hours a week in which to do something besides spin around in my office chair.

As the late, great Terry Pratchett said “There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times.” I never thought that interesting times would be a curse, but I could certainly go for things to be a bit more boring right about now.

But! I still think it’s super cute and I’m very happy with it. I made my elementary school the Earth, and the local middle school the moon. Then, I used an alphabet stamp set from Daiso to stamp the 6th graders’ names on rockets. Yes, I really do have only 10 students graduating. This is a very tiny school. But now they’re blasting off to the big middle school!

The rest of the board is fairly simple – just an explanation of the difference in schools and grades in the USA and Japan, and our silly graduation caps. The word of the month was “graduate,” because I was too lazy to come up with anything more interesting.

And that’s it! It’s a simpler board than I usually put up, but I like it quite a bit. Now here’s to hoping I don’t actually have to do a month of desk-warming (Thanks, Abe) and also that I don’t catch Madam Corona and die. Of course, the coronavirus would first have to make it up my mountain. In a prefecture where there haven’t been any cases reported. And infect me. A person who is not 100 years old, a.k.a. corona’s main target. So I think I’m gonna be fine.