Holidays & Other Special
Days
Here you will find special Christian and secular holidays as well as more obscure & unusual occasions that you can use to celebrate, plus even to make learning fun for your child(ren), grandchild(ren), friemds, students, etc.
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more ideas of how to incorporate special days into your curriculum and
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St. Valentines Day, Feb. 14
What a perfect time to celebrate Gods' love for us!
Read and enjoy "John 3:16."
Valentine's Day for Elementary Grades
Annenberg Media’s Teachers' Lab activity, "How Many Valentines?"
offers a fun way to connect the Valentine's Day holiday with elementary
mathematics. (Please click valentines at left.)
In addition, the website for Teaching Math: Grades 3-5 presents an interactive version
of the "How Many Valentines?" activity ,
which illustrates principles of reasoning and proof.
(Please click valentines pic at right:)
The Annenberg program "Valentine Exchange" in Teaching Math: A Video
Library, K-4> shows a
math lesson just right for the holiday.(Please click valentines pic at left)
See how kindergarten teacher Cindy Wilson uses the making of Valentines as
a means of promoting her students' oral language skills in Teaching Reading
K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices.
(Please click valentines pic at right:)
Happy Thanks
giving
Tues. Nov. 24, 2009:
this
Thursday! We're taking "Homeschool vacation" days, so we'll just be
praying to thank Jesus for our blessings, hearing about holiday
traditions and which are myths, and doing relevant crafts (like this
turkey pinata seen here: http://www.bry-backmanor.org/turkeybonus.html
and
bible activities. We're going to play this Turkey Alphabet Match Game
(please click pic to left). We'll also doing this Word Search found
here about the vegetables eaten at the first Thanksgiving (please
click cornucopia pic above) and this Pilgrim Food fun page while
waiting to eat: http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag69.htmlPlus
Noah's doing this easy Pilgrims maze as we talk about how the pilgrims
came to our country to escape religious persecution, just as many
Christians (and others) in the world are facing today.
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag15.html
Nov./Dec. 2009:
Advent is just around the corner! We're making one or more of these from a wide assortment of Advent Calendar craft ideas as a homeschool project for calendar skills, counting, & of course including Jesus activities! http://allcrafts.allcraftsblogs.com/2009/11/11/advent-calendars-2/
Christmas:Christmas 2009 Family Scrapbook pages, with some fun ideas for simple yet praise-ful holiday celebration activities: (Please click on page below to see them all with sound on Smilebox:)
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