This October Digital Bulletin Board is for Grades 2-5. Includes lesser-known October celebrations, famous October birthdays, October trivia, vocabulary, fun facts, and more!
This October Digital Bulletin Board is for Grades 2-5. Includes lesser-known October celebrations, famous October birthdays, October trivia, vocabulary, fun facts, and more! Scroll 51 slides.
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This October Digital Bulletin Board is for Grades 2-5. Includes lesser-known October celebrations, famous October birthdays, October trivia, vocabulary, fun facts, and more!

October Digital Bulletin Board – October Holidays and Celebrations

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This October Digital Bulletin Board gets students excited about autumn library events and activities! This only briefly mentions Halloween. The focus is October celebrations that often get overlooked, such as Thanksgiving in Canada, Sukkot, and National Pizza Month.

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Description

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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 (PDF version requires Adobe Acrobat Pro for editing)
  • Duration: 38 minutes (timed scroll of the 51 slides at 45 seconds each)

 

FILE INCLUDES

  • 51 October-themed slides
  • Recommended Reads list
  • October Digital Bulletin Board Scavenger Hunt
  • Take Home October Activities – Library Handout
  • October calendar with dates added (2025-2028 included)
  • 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:

  • Fun facts about owls, pizza, the Italian and Mexican flags, the Great Chicago Fire, Johnny Appleseed, sloths, Sukkot, and more
  • 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, Bruno Mars, and Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Orionid Meteor Shower (annual)
  • Would you rathers…? (3 questions)
  • 6 trivia questions with answers
  • 2 October idioms – “skeleton key” and “things that go bump in the night”
  • Words of the Week: gourd
  • Daily and weekly schedule
  • Announcements
  • Coming Soon…
  • Reminders
  • This week’s birthdays

 

OCTOBER HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS MENTIONED:

  • National Pizza Month
  • World Vegetarian Month
  • Fire Prevention Month and Week
  • Oktoberfest (last 2 weeks of September, but it goes into early October)
  • Sukkot (dates vary, but at least partially in October)
  • International Coffee Day (1st)
  • Thanksgiving in Canada
  • National Dessert Day (14th)
  • World Sloth Day (20th)
  • Orionid Meteor Shower (around 20th – 22nd)
  • Halloween (31st)

 

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 with Adobe Acrobat Pro

 

MORE OCTOBER LIBRARY ACTIVITIES

This Halloween Storytime is for librarians serving Grades K-2. It includes a 3-part library lesson, plus several printable pages.   This Spiders Storytime Library Lesson is for Grades k-3. Makes a great Halloween alternative!   This Halloween Digital Bulletin Board is for libraries serving Grades 3-6.

ALSO INCLUDED IN

This October Elementary Library Bundle includes 4 Library Storytimes, 3 Library Digital Bulletin Boards, Halloween Haiku, and October Library Display Posters. Most text is editable. The four Storytimes include standards-aligned lesson plans.   This is the Monthly Digital Bulletin Boards Bundle. It includes all 12 months and is for Grades 2-5.

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