Description
Click here to see the full PDF preview of this October Digital Bulletin Board.
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS OCTOBER DIGITAL LIBRARY BULLETIN BOARD:
- Recommended for: Grades 2-5
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
- Duration: 32 minutes (timed scroll of the 42 slides at 45 seconds each)
FILE INCLUDES
- 42 October themed PowerPoint slides + Google™ Slides version
- October Digital Bulletin Board Scavenger Hunt (2 pages, editable text)
- Take Home October Activities – Library Handout (2 pages, editable text)
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn lots of October-related facts, but it is NOT designed to be a direct-teach lesson.
PRESENTATION INCLUDES:
- No Halloween mentions! This October Digital Bulletin Board focuses on October holidays and celebrations that are often overshadowed by Halloween (scroll down for full list of October celebrations mentioned).
- Fun facts about owls, pizza, the Italian and Mexican flags, the Great Chicago Fire, Johnny Appleseed
- calendula (October flower)
- opal and tourmaline (October birthstones)
- Why is October the 10th month instead of the 8th month?
- Famous October birthdays – Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Dan Gutman (author), Nikki Grimes (author)
- Would you rathers…? (3 questions)
- 4 trivia questions with answers
- Words of the Week: gourd and annular eclipse
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Announcements
- Coming Soon…
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
OCTOBER HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS MENTIONED:
- National Pizza Month
- World Vegetarian Month
- Indigenous Peoples Day
- Columbus Day (no mention of Columbus – just the day itself)
- Canadian Thanksgiving
- National Dessert Day (14th)
- International Coffee Day (1st)
- Fire Prevention Week (2nd week of October)
- Oktoberfest (last 2 weeks of September, but it goes into early October)
- October eclipse – There is an annular eclipse on October 14, 2023
OCTOBER DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD SCAVENGER HUNT
- Students watch the presentation to find the images and answers to 12 questions about October 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
TAKE-HOME EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
I am so excited about this new addition to my Library Lessons! You can see the free uneditable version here. This October Digital Bulletin Board includes the editable version.
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page October take-home extension, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the October Digital Bulletin Board
- Make an easy and healthy fall snack (baked apple chips)
- review four October vocabulary words from the lesson
- learn to draw a scarecrow using simple, step-by-step directions
- remember how to sign “apple” in American Sign Language
- list of famous October birthdays from the presentation
- list of October celebrations mentioned in the presentation
- 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF
MORE OCTOBER LIBRARY ACTIVITIES
- Halloween Storytime (Grades K-2)
- Halloween Digital Bulletin Board (Grades 3-6)
- Eclipse Library Lesson (Grades 2-5)
OTHER MONTHLY DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARDS:
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