Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS DECEMBER 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 December themed PowerPoint slides + Google™ Slides version
- 2 December Digital Bulletin Board Scavenger Hunts, plus answer key (3 pages, editable text)
- 42 Recommended Reads for December (1 page)
- Take Home December Activities – Library Handout (2 pages, editable text)
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn lots of December-related facts, but it is NOT designed to be a direct-teach lesson.
PRESENTATION INCLUDES:
- This December Digital Bulletin Board focuses on December holidays and celebrations that are often overshadowed by Christmas (scroll down for full list of December celebrations mentioned).
- Fun facts about cotton candy, the Dewey Decimal System, dreidels, Bingo, holiday plants, and more!
- narcissus (December flower)
- turquoise, tanzanite, and blue topaz (December birthstones)
- the Latin root -dec
- Famous December birthdays – Emily Dickinson, Ada Lovelace, Melvil Dewey, Sir Isaac Newton, and Eve Bunting
- Would you rather…This or That…You Can Only Keep One (3 questions)
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Words of the Week: evergreen and wassailing
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Announcements
- Coming Soon…
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
DECEMBER HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS MENTIONED:
- National Bingo Month
- International Cheetah Day (Dec 4)
- National Cookie Day (Dec 4)
- National Sock Day (Dec 4)
- National Cotton Candy Day (Dec 7)
- Las Posadas (Dec 16-24)
- National Maple Syrup Day (Dec 17)
- Winter Solstice (Dec 21)
- Christmas (Dec 25)
- Kwanzaa (Dec 26-Jan 1)
- Boxing Day (Dec 26)
- Hogmanay / New Year’s Eve (Dec 31)
DECEMBER DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD SCAVENGER HUNT
- Students watch the presentation to find the images and answers to 12 questions about December 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
DECEMBER RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for Grades 2-5
- categorized by the December holidays and celebrations mentioned in the slideshow
- total of 42 titles
- includes small images from the presentation
- 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 at least two positive professional reviews on Titlewave.
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 December Digital Bulletin Board includes the editable version.
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page December Library Handout, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the December Digital Bulletin Board
- Make an easy and healthy December snack (“Snowman Poop”)
- review December vocabulary words from the lesson
- learn to draw a gingerbread house using simple, step-by-step directions
- remember how to sign “Christmas” in American Sign Language
- list of famous December birthdays from the presentation
- list of December celebrations mentioned in the presentation
- 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF
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