Mexico Digital Bulletin Board – Elementary Library Lessons – Cinco de Mayo

 

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS MEXICO DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD:

• Recommended for: Grades 3-6
• Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
• Editable: YES, all text is editable
• Number of Pages: 35 slides + 2 printable pages + answer key

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• 35 PPT slides + Google™ Slides
• Scavenger Hunt, 1 page (PDF and PPT)
• Recommended Reads list, 1 page (PDF and PPT)
• Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt, 1 page (PDF and PPT)
• This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn a lot about Mexico, but it is NOT a lesson.

THE MEXICO DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD SLIDES INCLUDE:

• Vocabulary Word: custom
• Staff Spotlight: Spanish teacher (you can change the title if your school does not have a Spanish teacher)
• Spanish vocabulary (multiple words including hello, food, drinks, cat, dog, bird, beach, mountains)
• Cinco de Mayo
• What’s that mystery animal (includes 3 clues)
• Landmarks in Mexico (Tulum, Chichen-Itza, Mexico City)
• Volcanoes
• Library Skill — Which Dewey section would have a English-Spanish Dictionary? (multiple choice question; includes answer slide)
• Mexican Independence Day
• Mexican foods (empanadas, tres leches cake, churros, tamales, quesadilla)
• Animals that live in Mexico (opossum, coati, spider monkey, tarantula)
• This week’s birthdays
• Did you knows…
• Would you rathers…?
• Daily and weekly schedule
• Announcements
• Coming Soon…
• Reminders

SCAVENGER HUNT

• Editable, 1 page (PDF and PPT)
• Students watch the presentation to find the images and answers to five questions about Mexico (all are in the presentation)
• Includes answer key (PDF and PPT)

RECOMMENDED READS LIST

• Includes 24 titles
• All titles are recommended on Titlewave for Grades 3-7.
• Titles are fiction, nonfiction, short stories, and graphic novels.
• All titles received positive reviews from professional library journals. Many received starred reviews.