Celebrate quirky August holidays with this August Digital Bulletin Board!
August doesn’t have any major holidays, but there are lots of minor celebrations in August. Includes World Lion Day, National Potato Day, Rock Paper Scissors Day, and more!
This product has 67 slides & pages, and it includes:
- 59-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 August-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 44 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 50 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 (2 pages, PDF)
58 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- This August Digital Bulletin Board focuses on August holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of celebrations mentioned).
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “memoir” and “mochi”
- Fun facts about lions, sand, lighthouses, and more!!
- Famous August birthdays, featuring:
- Neil Armstrong – August 5, 1930
- Matthew Henson – August 8, 1866
- Virginia Dare – August 18, 1587
- Mary Shelley – August 30, 1797
- Gladiolus and poppy (August flowers)
- Peridot (August birthstone)
- 5 Would you rather and This or That question slides
- 3 Extreme Close-ups (photos zoomed in for students to guess what they are)
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Library and school announcement template slides
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
August holidays and traditions included:
- National Peach Month,
- First day of school (date varies),
- Dogust (1st),
- International Mahjong Day (1st),
- National Coloring Book Day (2nd),
- National Water Balloon Day (2nd),
- National Watermelon Day (3rd),
- National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day (4th),
- National Root Beer Float Day (6th),
- National Lighthouse Day (7th),
- International Cat Day (8th),
- National Mochi Day (8th),
- International Infinity Day (8th),
- World Lion Day (10th),
- World Lizard Day (14th),
- National Roller Coaster Day (16th),
- National Potato Day (19th),
- National Waffle Day (24th),
- World Rock Paper Scissors Day (27th),
- We Love Memoirs Day (31st),
- National Eat Outside Day (31st),
- National Sandcastle Day (1st Saturday),
- National Bowling Day (2nd Saturday), and
- World Honeybee Day (3rd Saturday).
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this editable 2-page August Library Handout, students can:
- Quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the August Digital Bulletin Board;
- Discover sweet and savory topping ideas for waffles (National Waffle Day is August 24th!);
- Review August vocabulary words from the lesson;
- Learn to draw a lion using simple, step-by-step directions (World Lion Day is August 10th!);
- Learn how to sign “lion” in American Sign Language;
- List of famous August birthdays from the presentation;
- List of August 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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