Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS APRIL DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD:
- Recommended for: Grades 2-5
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
- Duration: 38 minutes (timed scroll of the 51 slides at 45 seconds each)
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET
- 51 April themed PowerPoint slides + Google™ Slides version
- 2 April Digital Bulletin Board Scavenger Hunts, plus answer key (3 pages, editable text)
- 53 Recommended Reads for the April themes (1 page)
- Take Home April Activities – Library Handout (2 pages, editable text)
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn lots of April-related facts, but it is NOT designed to be a direct-teach lesson.
PRESENTATION INCLUDES:
- This April Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor April holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of April celebrations mentioned).
- Fun facts about the intelligence of rats, Morse Code, English muffins, blues music, basketball record holders, and more!
- daisy and sweet pea (April flowers)
- diamond (April birthstone)
- The Hope Diamond
- “April showers bring May flowers”
- theories on how April got its name
- ways everyone can help our earth on Earth Day
- 3 poems + 1 nursery rhyme (listed below)
- famous April birthdays – see below for list
- Would you rather and This or That questions (2 questions)
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Words of the Week: anthropology and pastel
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Announcements
- Coming Soon…
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
APRIL HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS MENTIONED:
- National Poetry Month
- National Library Month
- April Fools’ Day (1st)
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (2nd)
- World Rat Day (4th)
- National Empanada Day (8th)
- Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day (12th)
- National Go Fly a Kite Day (21st)
- Earth Day (22nd)
- National English Muffin Day (23rd)
- National Pretzel Day (26th)
- Morse Code Day (27th)
- National Tie-Dye Day (30th)
- Baseball Opening Day (date varies)
- Easter (date varies)
- Eid Al-Fitr (date varies – April 10th in 2024)
- Stop Food Waste Day (date varies)
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
- Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805)
- Jane Goodall (April 3, 1934)
- Muddy Waters (April 4, 1913)
- Beverly Cleary (April 12, 1916)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (April 16, 1947)
3 POEMS + 1 NURSERY RHYME
- “Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905
- “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear, 1870
- “How Doth the Little Crocodile?” by Lewis Carroll, 1865
- “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” – traditional nursery rhyme
APRIL DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD SCAVENGER HUNT
- Students watch the presentation to find the images and answers to 12 questions about April things (all answers are in the presentation).
- Two differentiated versions
- Scavenger Hunt #1 – easier – does not require any reading
- Scavenger Hunt #2 – harder – for students who can read well
- Answer Key included for Scavenger Hunt #2
- Editable text, 3 total pages
APRIL RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for Grades 2-5
- categorized by the April holidays and celebrations mentioned in the slideshow
- total of 53 titles
- titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.
- All titles received positive professional reviews on Titlewave for Grades 2-5. Many titles received starred reviews.
TAKE-HOME EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
I am so excited about this new addition to my Library Lessons! You can see a free, uneditable example here. This April Digital Bulletin Board includes the editable version.
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page April Library Handout, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the April Digital Bulletin Board
- Learn to make an English Muffin Mini-Pizza for National English Muffin Day
- review April vocabulary words from the lesson
- learn to draw a fancy rain cloud using simple, step-by-step directions
- learn how to sign “spring” in American Sign Language
- list of famous April birthdays from the presentation
- list of April celebrations mentioned in the presentation
- 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF
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