Focus on Months and Seasons For the Start of the Year
Free Themed Activity
For Preschool - 2nd Grade
The beginning of the new year can be a perfect time for young students to learn about months and seasons in order from the logical starting point of the annual cycle.
Playbooks® recommends My Season from its Reader's Theater, Jr.™ collection, a story set teaching the characteristics of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. In this fun set consisting of five mini books and one main story, each season has a speaking role as it hopes to be chosen by Lin as her very favorite season!
To accompany the reader's theater story or as an independent activity to incorporate into your lesson plan, Playbooks® is providing a free activity for teaching how the months and seasons are intertwined and how they fall on the calendar year.
Get the Free Seasons and Months
Classroom Activity here!
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:
Remembering the Struggle
Martin Luther King Day is Monday, January 17th this year, so be prepared to provide your students with a cross-curricular civil rights activity!
To kids today and even a generation ago, it might seem like Martin Luther King Day and its accompanying yearly lessons have been around forever - and that equal rights have always
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In reality, Martin Luther King Day was only celebrated as an official federal holiday in January 1986, and it took an amazing effort for the holiday to be approved. By that time, the King Memorial Center had been celebrating day in honor of King's birthday for 17 years, since the year after King's assassination. King's widow, Coretta, and Stevie Wonder were among many who fought for a bill establishing Martin Luther King Day as a nationally recognized holiday.
Today, educators have a precious opportunity to encourage understanding of past civil rights issues and inspire students to continue making the world a better place for all as they grow and have the power to make change!
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