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ACTIVITIES THAT FOLLOW THE CALENDAR

Preschool Literacy Calendar: This research based resource for preschool teachers covers phonemic awareness, lessons for a full year, and great literature suggestions. it includes 48 weekly themes, over 200 daily themes, and over 1,300 activities. Student activities are reproducible. Click here for more information.

Quick and Fun Activities for Every Day of the Year by Tim Tuck. Revised and rewritten by Karen Tam Froloff and Wanda Kelly. For each day of the calendar year, including the summer, you will find these activities: a Word of the Day which explains the word's definition and origin; Imagine...--a creative springboard for writing, design, drama, and art; Quote of the Day; and Activity of the day, which can be a puzzle, game or fun activity. Each day is based on a theme, and these can be expanded to an entire theme day if that suits you. 376 pages. For all grades. Reproducible for classroom use. BTH-2490. $26.99-D

Read, Write, Respond using Historic Events January through June by Jimmie Aydelott and Dianna Buck, Teacher Created Resources, 2007. This book, which is correlated to standards contains activities for every day of the year that are related to history, from January through June. . Each daily page contains a high-interest, short account of a historical event, celebration, festival, or birthday of an important person. This is followed by a response activity designed around Bloom's Taxonomy. Also included on each page are a list other events occuring on the same day, a fascinating factoid, a related word play exercise, and one or more related independent student activities. 208 pages.
For grades 4-6. BTH-3672. $17.99-D

Read, Write, Respond using Historic Events July through December by Jimmie Aydelott and Dianna Buck, Teacher Created Resources, 2007. This book, which is correlated to standards contains activities for every day of the year from July through December that are related to history.  Each daily page contains a high-interest, short account of a historical event, celebration, festival, or birthday of an important person. This is followed by a response activity designed around Bloom's Taxonomy. Also included on each page are a list other events occuring on the same day, a fascinating factoid, a related word play exercise, and one or more related independent student activities. 208 pages.
For grades 4-6. BTH-3673. $17.99-D

Three Cheers for Series for Preschool: These monthly activity books for grades PreK and K link activities to state and national standards. There is one book for each month, August through May and a June/July combo summer title. Center activities are identified with the state and national standards they meet. For more specific information please click here. 

Three Cheers for Series for Grades 1 and 2 by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. From Steck-Vaughn. 2006. The monthly titles in this series link activities to state and national standards and also meet accreditation standards for child-created bulletin boards. The activities follow the school calendar and reflect the philosophy that children have different learning styles. The activities are based on the research of Howard Gardner, whose theory of multiple intelligences validates teaching thematically and using a variety of approaches to help children learn. Each book has seven units:

• Unit  1 has reproducible pages and information for the month in general, including help in communicating with parents, a blank thematic border page, a list of special days in the month, calendar ideas to promote special holidays, and a blank calendar grid.

• Units 2-6 include enough  activities for five different theme topics related to the month. These include art and craft ideas; a food activity; poetry, language activities, and book suggestions; bulletin board ideas, and center activities correlated to specific learning standards. (All major subject areas are included in each theme.)

• Unit 7 focuses on a well-known children's author and includes a biographical sketch of the author, an activity based on one of the author's literary works, a list of the author's books, and reproducible bookmarks.

Here are the books with their themes:

Three Cheers for January: Chinese New Year, Human Body, 100th Day of School, Arctic Life, and U. S. Heroes. BTH-1882, $11.69-D

Three Cheers for February:  Presidents' Day; Valentine's Day; Dental Health; Black History Month; Fairy Tales / Nursery Rhymes. BTH-1883, $11.69-D

Three Cheers for March: Space; Seeds / Plants; Time; Spring / Flowers; Ladybugs. BTH-1884. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for April:  Weather; insects; Eggs / Birds; Trees; Earth Day. BTH-1885. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for May: Sea Life / Oceans; Cinco de Mayo; Rocks; Frogs / Toads; Summer. BTH-1886. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for August: : School; Feelings; Families; Homes; Pets. BTH-2461. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for September : Senses; Communities; Owls; Transportation; and Apples. . BTH-2462. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for October : Monsters; Bats; Spiders; Fall; Moon, Stars, Sun. BTH-2464. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for November :  Thanksgiving; Food/Nutrition; Voting/Elections; Mammals; Native Americans . BTH-2465. $11.69-D

Three Cheers for December : Holidays; Money; Winter; Animals in Winter; Reptiles . BTH-2466. $11.69-D

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