This April Holidays Digital Bulletin Board is a scrolling slideshow of multiple April holiday traditions around the world with fun facts and trivia, plus a list of Recommended Reads.
Includes “big” holidays like National Poetry Month, National Library Month, Easter, and Earth Day, plus smaller celebrations like World Rat Day, April Fools’ Day, and Go Fly a Kite Day.
This product has 59 slides & pages, and it includes:
- 51-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
- All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn a lot about April-related facts, but it is NOT meant to be a formal direct instruction library lesson.
- If automatic timings for each slide are set to 45 seconds each, the scrolling show will loop once every 38 minutes.
- Two (2) editable, differentiated scavenger hunts (3 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
- Students “hunt” for images and information to answer 12 questions in the presentation. This gives students something to focus on during library checkout and downtime.
- “Easier” version – Students color the objects as they find them.
- “Harder” version – Students answer questions about the information in the slides, plus find smaller images.
- Answer key is included.
- List of 53 recommended books to accompany this lesson (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
- The list is editable and great to hand out to parents, teachers, and students looking for related books.
- Take-Home Extension Activities (2 pages, PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF)
- Text is editable, and includes several ways for students to share what they learned during the lesson.
- Instructions on how to set up PowerPoint slide timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)
51 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- This April Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor April holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of April celebrations mentioned).
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “anthropology” and “pastel”
- Fun facts intelligence of rats, Morse Code, English muffins, blues music, basketball record holders, and more
- Famous April birthdays, featuring:
- Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805)
- Jane Goodall (April 3, 1934)
- Muddy Waters (April 4, 1913)
- Beverly Cleary (April 12, 1916)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (April 16, 1947)
- daisy and sweet pea (April flower)
- diamond (April birthstone), plus the Hope Diamond
- idiom: “April showers bring May flowers”
- theories on how April got its name
- ways everyone can help our earth on Earth Day
- 3 poems + 1 nursery rhyme (listed below)
- 2 question slides: Would you rather and This or That questions
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Library and school announcement template slides
- This week’s birthdays
April holidays and traditions included:
- National Poetry Month,
- National Library Month,
- April Fools’ Day (1st),
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (2nd),
- World Rat Day (4th),
- National Empanada Day (8th),
- Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day (12th),
- National Go Fly a Kite Day (21st),
- Earth Day (22nd),
- National English Muffin Day (23rd),
- National Pretzel Day (26th),
- Morse Code Day (27th),
- National Tie-Dye Day (30th),
- Baseball Opening Day (date varies),
- Easter (date varies),
- Eid Al-Fitr (date varies – April 10th in 2024), and
- Stop Food Waste Day (date varies).
3 Poems + 1 Nursery Rhyme
- “Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905
- “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear, 1870
- “How Doth the Little Crocodile?” by Lewis Carroll, 1865
- “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” – traditional nursery rhyme
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page April Library Handout, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the April Digital Bulletin Board;
- Learn to make an English Muffin Mini-Pizza for National English Muffin Day;
- Review April vocabulary words from the lesson;
- Learn to draw a fancy rain cloud using simple, step-by-step directions;
- Learn how to sign “spring” in American Sign Language;
- List of famous April birthdays from the presentation;
- List of April celebrations mentioned in the presentation.
Standards Addressed:
AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.
- Inquire – C.1. – D.1.
- Explore – A.1. – C.1.
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