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The Mini Page — 2008 Activities
A 2008 Calendar for Kids
Issue 1
Jan. 5-11
This week's standards:
- Students understand people and events honored in commemorative holidays.
(History)
Activities:
1. Create a poster that announces your birthday as a holiday. Cut out newspaper words and pictures that show important things about you and paste them on your poster.
2. Pick your three favorite calendar events. Now find words or pictures from newspaper ads for items you would use to celebrate those events. For example, you might buy camping equipment for National Recreation and Parks Month.
3. Select three comic strip characters who would be good representatives for special calendar events. Explain why each one would be a good spokesperson to commemorate that day, week or month.
4. Find at least two special days that each of these people would consider
important: (a) historians, (b) teachers, (c) athletes and (d) scientists.
5. Create a newspaper prediction calendar. Write the names of the 12 months down the left side of a piece of paper. Now predict a headline that would be related to one of the calendar events in each month and write it next to the month. For example, you might find a story about roses and chocolates in a February story about Valentine's Day.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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