This creative book in the popular Daily Discoveries series contains another month full of special days for students to celebrate in the classroom. They include: Reindeer Mania Day, Winter Weather Day, Human Rights Day, It's a Small World Day, and of course Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve Day. Use the activities in your regular curriculum for a shot of adrenalin in language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, etc. Your students will eagerly look forward to each new day when you give them something to celebrate! Also included are reproducible patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books and bulletin board ideas.
Arts/Crafts. Experience. continued. • Provide large cardboard boxes such as refrigerator boxes from an appliance store. Let children paint and decorate the boxes to turn them into the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.
Daily Discoveries for DECEMBER: Thematic Learning Activities for EVERY DAY.
Science/Health Experience • Benjamin Franklin gained valuable insight as a result of his experiments with a kite, a key and electricity, but “don't try this at home.” Talk about what could have happened to him.
Create underwater pictures. Students cut ocean animals, fish and plants from construction paper and place them between two pieces of waxed paper. They add green and blue crayon shavings to surround the ocean creatures.
Arts/Crafts. Experience. • Students can each make a nurse's or doctor's hat. Nurse's Hat Students fold a 20" x 16" piece of white construction paper in half (short ends together). They fold the top right corner to the center, ...
If you liked the other books in the Daily Discoveries series, you'll love this one, too!
Make every day in September a special day in your classroom with the creative ideas in this book.
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Arts/Crafts. Experience. • Let students diagram the life cycle of an insect, such as a monarch butterfly. Illustrations could include: The EGGS hatch on the milkweed plant. The CATERPILLAR eats the milkweed leaves.
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