Sometime in January or February, you’ll reach the 100th day of your school year. Celebrate it, whether your students are just learning to count to 100, or ready to debate the 100 most influential people in history. Read some suitable books. Use our free 100th day bookmarks to keep your… Continue reading
For February, you have lots of options for bulletin boards: African-American History Month, Presidents’ Day, Chinese New Year, Groundhog Day, National Children’s Dental Health Month, Mardi Gras — choosing is the hard part! Valentine’s Day may be the most popular bulletin board theme. There are ready-made Valentine’s Day bulletin board sets:… Continue reading
For the celebration of Asian American Heritage Month, you might like to learn how to use chopsticks. Continue reading
Winter holiday lessons and activities: Chanukah Lights Everywhere Christmas Lesson Plans Groundhog Day Lesson Plans Chinese New Year Lesson Plans Mardi Gras The Valentine Bears Leap Day Lesson Plans General winter classroom ideas and lesson plans: Snow Classroom Theme Snowman Classroom Theme Animals in Winter Lesson Plans Penguins Classroom… Continue reading
Snow is a terrific classroom theme, but you can step it up and study with snowmen, too. Enjoy some snowman books: The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll The Snowman by Raymond Briggs; the wordless DVD has wonderful music and animation. A Snowman Named Just Bob isn’t great poetry,… Continue reading
Germany is the home of Christmas trees and gingerbread, two aspects of the German celebration that have become well entrenched in American tradition. Click on the links to find plenty of classroom activities for both those topics. Don’t stop there! German Christmas traditions involve lots of handmade decorations. One that… Continue reading
Christmas is celebrated in many parts of the world, and the traditions for celebrating it vary from one country and region to another. This makes it a great way to study geography, and we also have ideas for art, math, English, and science under specific countries. Basic plans: Map it! Travel… Continue reading
As the weather turns colder, we need a chilly theme for the classroom. Mittens are a great one! It’s nice to have a fun theme that doesn’t involve holidays, and this one may even help your students remember to wear their mittens. There are lots of mitten designs in… Continue reading
Olive, the Other Reindeer, by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh, is a wonderfully fun Christmas book. Olive, a little dog, hears “All of the other reindeer” on the radio and decides she must be a reindeer. She heads for Santa’s workshop, where her adventures naturally include saving Christmas. The… Continue reading
How the Grinch Stole Christmas was written in 1957 by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), and the Grinch has joined Ebeneezer Scrooge in the pantheon of seasonal bad guys — transformed, of couse, by the power of Christmas. The Grinch hates Christmas — the noise, the singing, the presents. He finds it… Continue reading
