With November quickly approaching, it’s a good idea to get ready to plan your November bulletin boards! Bulletin boards inspire and excite young learners and help them to use their imaginations in all kinds of activities. From Fall leaves to great reads and extension activities, a great bulletin board idea may be the best way of setting off on the right foot each month.
Table of Contents
- What makes a Great November Bulletin Board?
- Examples of Great November Bulletin Board Ideas
- November Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS
What makes a Great November Bulletin Board?
When planning your bulletin board ideas for Fall, there are some key points to remember that you probably want to include:
Season
The season that you are in is always of utmost importance. It makes your bulletin board relevant and helps kids focus on “the now.” Kids are naturally excited by what season it is. A fresh seasonal bulletin board idea helps them gain even more excitement and momentum for a particular time of year and helps with writing and reading themes, as well.
Holidays
Don’t forget how much kids love the holidays. Consider any holidays in November, especially Thanksgiving and consider how different families celebrate Thanksgiving in America. Then think about symbols of those holidays for the November bulletin board. Turkeys, pumpkins, Fall leaves, cornucopia, and pumpkin pie are a few examples.
Current School Projects
It is not only the holidays and seasons that get kids interested in the month of November. They are also inspired by current school projects and activities that they are involved in such as a school play, a musical concert, or other event that may happen in the Fall season or in November. So be sure to include something about this in the bulletin board if you can.
Extra Curricular Activities/Arts, etc
Artistic activities like painting, drawing, or school murals could also be included if there is room on your bulletin board. Teachers could base the amount of emphasis on how much involvement kids in their class have in these sorts of activities.
Writing Goals
Consider your writing goals for kids in the month of November. What types of writing projects or assignments do you give or would you give that help them focus on the Fall season or November? Could you assign students to write about how it must have been to have been aboard the Mayflower as they traveled to the “new world?” How about a scientific essay on the different types of leaves and why they turn various colors in the Fall? Use symbols such as pencils or iPads, etc. to illustrate writing in your bulletin board.
Incorporate Reading
Many teachers find it meaningful to plan reading units around the month or season as well. Think of historical events that may have happened in the month of November and have students research and investigate it, then share with the class. It can simply be a story that is set in the Fall, too.
What makes a good November Bulletin board is going to vary from teacher to teacher and from school to school. Consider holidays, the month, historical events, and your goals for the class, always keeping in mind what would be t he most meaningful experience for students to emphasize the time of year and its significance in your students’ lives.
Examples of Great November Bulletin Board Ideas
Below are some of our favorite November bulletin board ideas. Take a quick look at each one to inspire you to create your own. But make it unique, making sure you are focusing on the needs of your school and your students and what November means to them.
- We Are Thankful By Darcy
This example shows a unique approach to the “Thanksgiving theme,” giving gratitude to the “Students of the Month” in their school. This allows students to be rewarded for a job well-done while showing the importance of gratitude during the Thanksgiving month. If done skillfully, this could also inspire teachers and students to brainstorm unique writing activities around this idea such as focusing on certain students and what they did to get to the status of “Student of the Month.” This could potentially inspire others to do better to strive to reach the same goal.
- Sunflowers In Fall Bulletin Board By Create. Decorate. Educate
This is an excellent idea with a complete tutorial by the creator. She shows everything from how to frame your bulletin board in a neat way and then design the scene on black felt background for a strong effect. This board is a Welcome sign for Fall teacher conferences but you can use it as an example to inspire you to create your own idea. Make sure and watch this presentation to the end, because she creates a lovely “box of sunflowers” to place at the foreground of the board at the end!
- Give Thanks By Little Learning Corner
About halfway down the page, you will see a beautiful Thanksgiving-themed bulletin board with a turkey and Fall leaves around a tree that is done with a lot of artistic flair. This page also has 26 other helpful ideas you can consider.
- Fall Into A Good Book By Library Learners
This is an excellent idea that focuses on books and reading for the Fall season. It features a beautiful Fall scene with an opened book at the base of the scene.
- Thankful Class By The Simplistic Teacher
This graphic can be used in any November or Fall-themed bulletin boards and it is available on Teach Simple.
- Native American Heritage Month By We Are Teachers
This bulletin board focuses on a very important cultural group, the American Indian and their heritage. Students could write about this topic or check out books to learn more.
- Pumpkin Writing Bulletin Board By Teaching With Love And Laughter
Here is an idea from a teacher’s personal blog that includes writing as a component to get kids inspired to write with a Fall and November theme.
- Leaf Through A Good Book By The Teacher Librarian
Kristi Sutter, a media specialist, came out with this idea that could easily be adapted to any season that also includes the reading theme.
- Any Way You Slice It By MrsMockUp
If you don’t mind paying a little for a great idea, here is a beautiful Fall bulletin board with lovely graphics that you can purchase a kit for and redo in your own classroom.
- Latte To Be Thankful For By Made By Teachers
This cute bulletin board is appropriate for Fall and November, and it includes a nice play on words such as the “latte” which stands for “Lot” to be thankful for. This could be used as a discussion starter to get kids talking about how different words are spelled and how words can be used in unique ways. This is a paid bulletin board kit as well but might be worth it!
- Going On A Leaf Hunt By School Bulletin Boards
This teachers’ blog has a lot of great bulletin board ideas for Fall including this one that inspires the activity of leaf hunting to make it real for kids.
- Patch Perfect By School Bulletin Boards
This sample bulletin board could be used for either October or November. Remove the bats and put a turkey instead and it would work fine for the month of November. Pumpkins are plentiful in November, as well!
- Falling Into Science By School Bulletin Boards
This bulletin board is meant for November, but it could be adapted to other times of the year. It contains a riddle also that the creator (a science teacher) uses each year to get kids to figure out what it means using the scientific method.
- Playing In The Leaves By SupplyMe
This is a cute, unique bulletin board, featuring the faces of kids as they play in the Fall leaves. it is also a creative, artistic idea for more artistic kids to be involved in. All kids can be includes with the cutting of the leaves that can be added to the board.
- Fall-themed Classroom Management Board By SupplyMe
This bulletin board can be used to manage various projects and serves as a way to organize ideas or to display student work for open house dates.
- Friday Night Lights By Michelle Brinn
Can we possibly think about Fall without football? Impossible! Why not create a bulletin board with a football theme and inspire school spirit?
- Fall Art Projects For Little Hands By Rainbows Within Reach
This one inspired us to include it due to the value it offers teachers of younger kids with a plethora of artistic ideas for them to explore what Fall means to them. Take some of the art work done by the kids and tack it onto the bulletin board!
- Thank You For Answering The Call By SupplyMe
What better way to honor veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedoms than with a bulletin board honoring Veteran’s Day? This is a beautiful one featuring the great American eagle and flag.
- Rake In A Good Book By SupplyMe
This bulletin board features an old tree, carefully sculpted to look old, and a pile of leaves being raked to illustrate the idea of find great reads to inspire reading.
- Fall Leaf Frames By Have Fun Teaching
Teach Simple created this piece. We think it would be a great way to frame student writing that could later we placed on a fall-themed bulletin board to show parents and to increase the self-esteem among students.
- Autumn/November Assets From Amazon
If you would like to use the freeform approach to create a totally original bulletin board, try this item available on Amazon that includes 60 pieces you can use to complete your bulletin board ideas. Reusable.
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November Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS
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Always consider not only the season and time of the year, month, etc., but also the projects and activities, themes of writing and literacy, and extracurricular activities that your school or class is involved with.
Yes. Students connect to vivid color and they enjoy seeing an attractive display. It is not the most important, but it is important. Consider all of the factors that students gain knowledge from to create the best display.
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