The environment you create within a classroom should provide an inviting atmosphere in which students are excited to learn. While the classroom environment extends far beyond what you put on the walls or how you display student work, bulletin boards can be used to enhance student learning within the classroom. Bulletin boards can display the work of students to foster a feeling of belonging. Bulletin boards can also be important literacy tools when they display words that are frequently used or associated with current areas of study. Bulletin boards can also display information to aid students in their learning of new topics. I have posted pictures of some of the bulletin boards I created during my internship below. Displaying Student Work to Foster a Sense of Belonging   At the beginning of the year the students in our hallway created pictures of their faces to add to our "On the Road to Success" bus. This was a way for both students and visitors to know who we were. Using Bulletin Boards as a Literacy Tool  This word wall was created to support a science unit on plants. Using Bulletin Boards to Display Information  During my internship my students created Flat Stanleys and sent them all over the world. One set was sent to a rural town in Saskatchewan for another class to tour our Stanleys around. As the Stanleys returned we would plot where they had journeyed. The children loved this activity and would often check first thing in the morning to see if we had any new "arrivals". |