Posted on February 08, 2009 by angie828

If you are a preschool teacher, you need to pick up a copy of “Creative Resources for Bulletin Boards in the Early Childhood Classroom. The book is by Judy Herr and Yvonne Libby and retails for $19.95. It is a Gryphon House book.
The 224 page book includes patterns for letters and numbers which is nice. It includes a variety of ideas for themes from Christmas to Halloween to water to doctors and nurses. It gives 50 bulletin board ideas and has other patterns and name tags and labels to reproduce.
It also shows you that there are 4 types of bulletin boards: interactive, which is the most effective, child created, which I like to use, deocorative, and conceptual. You could try to have a variety of bulletin boards in your classroom.
There is also a check list that you can use to evaluate your bulletin board. Make sure to place it at the childs level if possible.