This December Digital Bulletin Board teaches students about lesser-known December holiday celebrations!
It includes Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Hogmanay, Boxing Day, National Bingo Month, National Cookie Day, and more!
This product has 59 total 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 December-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 42 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)
52 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- This December Digital Bulletin Board focuses on December holidays and celebrations that are often overshadowed by Christmas (scroll down for full list of celebrations mentioned).
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “evergreen” and “wassailing”
- Fun facts about cotton candy, the Dewey Decimal System, dreidels, Bingo, holiday plants, and more!
- Famous December birthdays, featuring:
- Emily Dickinson
- Ada Lovelace
- Melvil Dewey
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Eve Bunting
- Narcissus (December flower)
- Turquoise, tanzanite, and blue topaz (December birthstone)
- 3 Would you rather and This or That question slides
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Library and school announcement template slides
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
December holidays and traditions included:
- National Bingo Month,
- International Cheetah Day (December 4),
- National Cookie Day (December 4),
- National Sock Day (December 4),
- National Cotton Candy Day (December 7),
- Las Posadas (December 16-24),
- National Maple Syrup Day (December 17),
- Winter Solstice (December 21),
- Christmas (December 25),
- Kwanzaa (December 26-Jan 1),
- Boxing Day (December 26), and
- Hogmanay / New Year’s Eve (December 31).
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this editable 2-page December Library Handout, students can:
- Quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the December Digital Bulletin Board;
- Make an easy and healthy December snack, “snowman poop;”;
- Review December vocabulary words from the lesson;
- Learn to draw a gingerbread house using simple, step-by-step directions;
- Learn how to sign “Christmas” in American Sign Language;
- List of famous December birthdays from the presentation;
- List of December 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.
Terms of Use
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