Description
Click here to see the full PDF preview of this December Digital Bulletin Board.
This December Digital Bulletin Board also appears in this December Elementary Library Bundle.
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
MORE DECEMBER LIBRARY ACTIVITIES
- December Holidays Library Lesson (Grades K-5)
- December Holidays Trivia Game (Grades 4-7)
- December Holidays Activity Booklet (Grades 1-4)
OTHER MONTHLY DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARDS:
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