A Poster full of love!
It was last February, St Valentine’s day was coming and I thought of making a paper poster, as they are popular in teaching.
I cut it in a heart shape and gave it the title “Love Stories”. My contribution was a text about the real Saint Valentine. I told my High School pupils that they were free to write a love story, lyrics of a love song or a love message on the poster. Few of them wanted to participate, but the result was beautiful. . .
St Valentine’s Day, 2014
In February 2015, my students filled a heart-shaped poster with different ways of saying “I love you”!
In February 2016, they filled another heart with something they love doing!
Then, I prepared a comic strip for them, called “A love story” and they wrote the dialogues!
Details can be found at the video I have prepared for the school’s youtube channel!
In 2017, inspired by an idea on Facebook, I asked them to complete the phrase “I really like you because. . .”. Their contributions were:
“of your stunning eyes”
“you take care of me”
“I feel beautiful with you”
“you make me smile”
“you are my whole world”
“you love me like I do”
“on your face I see my whole world”
“you are true”
“when I’m sad you make me happy”
“you make me crazy”
St Valentine’s Day, 2017
In 2018, we made a poster, trying to define what “love” is…
Posters to decorate your classroom door!
Here’s an “English” poster, to let the newcomers know where the English classroom is! Using coloured paper in your printer makes things so much easier!
This year’s poster on my classroom door
On the other side of my classroom door, I wanted a welcoming poster and I made this tree by using tagul! I printed it out two times, in green and pink paper (I didn’t have brown!), cut the pieces out and stuck them on a yellow piece of paper!
A “Welcome Tree”, with the use of tagul.com
And what about using a poem to decorate your classroom? Here’s one of my favourite quotes, taken from Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”.
Classroom Rules!
As a reminder, I stuck the classroom rules that are relevant to my school on the classroom walls!
Classroom Rules!
European Day of Languages, September 26th, 2014!
On that day, we made a poster with the word “Hello” written in about 15 European languages and we then used some of these “Hellos” to write our own poem!
“Welcome to Europe!”
26th September, 2014
European Day of Languages, September 26th, 2015!
A year later, we used tagul in order to make an image of a globe with the word “welcome” in European languages. We even took part in the ecml competition!
Welcome!
European Day of Languages, September 26th, 2016!
In 2016, our poster included the word “Hello” , as told in the countries that belong to the European Union.
A Halloween Poster!
On October 31st, 2014, I thought it would be a good idea to make a pumpkin poster with scary stories, written by my students! At first, they loved the idea, but I ended up receiving only 3 stories! I also wrote one myself and we had a guest story, by John M., a student of my dear friend and colleague Theodora Papapanagiotou!
Scary Story Time! (2014)
John M.’s story!
Our scary stories!
Two years later, I encouraged my students to write 2-sentence-horror stories. This time, the participation was larger! Some of them even wanted to write longer stories!
Halloween, 2016
In 2018, new stories followed!
Halloween 2018
Thanksgiving Day!
In November 2014, I asked my students to write on a piece of paper what they are thankful for, after I explained to them what “Thanksgiving Day” is all about in the U.S.A. ! They were more than willing to do so and I used these pieces of paper to make the following poster!
Thanksgiving, 2014
In 2016, I thought of combining English with Maths, statistics and using the Excel program. I asked my A class students to name one thing they are thankful for in their lives and we turned the results into a pie chart!
In 2018, I used toonytool to create this poster!
Thanksgiving 2018
Christmas!
Christmas was approaching, I saw this large, green piece of paper and I thought: “What if I made a paper Christmas tree?” And so I did! I asked my students to write Christmas wishes on the tree and they were more than willing to do so!
A Christmas Tree full of wishes!
In 2018, instead of making a poster, we simply prepared a Christmas tree on the board!
New Year’s Resolutions!
During the first days of January 2015, I asked my students to write on a small piece of paper their resolution for the new year! Then, I made a collage out of all the pieces of paper!
