Celebrate the major and minor January holidays with this Digital Bulletin Board of scrolling slides! Includes “big” holidays like New Year’s Day, Lunar New Year, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, plus smaller celebrations like National Bagel Day and National Puzzle Day.
This product has 53 slides & pages, and it includes:
- 45-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 January-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 34 minutes.
- Two (2) editable, differentiated scavenger hunts (3 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
- Students “hunt” for images and information in the Part 2 scrolling slides part of 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 44 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 January Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor January holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of celebrations mentioned).
- Fun facts about squirrels, bagels, Elvis Presley, puzzles, the polar bear plunge, shelfies, and more!
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “prosperity” and “thesaurus”
- Famous March birthdays, featuring:
- Elvis Presley (Jan 8)
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jan 15)
- Benjamin Franklin (Jan 17)
- A.A. Milne (Jan 18)
- Bessie Coleman (Jan 26)
- snowdrop and carnation (January flowers)
- garnet (January birthstone)
- Roman god Janus (how January got its name)
- 4 question slides: Would you rather, This or That, and Pick One questions
- 7 trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Library and school announcement template slides
- This week’s birthdays
January holidays and traditions included:
- New Year’s Day (Jan. 1),
- Epiphany (Jan. 6),
- Three Kings Day (Jan. 6),
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (3rd Monday),
- National Bagel Day (Jan. 15),
- National Thesaurus Day (Jan. 18),
- National Popcorn Day (Jan. 19),
- Squirrel Appreciation Day (Jan. 21),
- Lunar New Year (date varies),
- National Puzzle Day (Jan. 29), and
- National Shelfie Day (4th Wednesday).
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page January Library Handout, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the January Digital Bulletin Board;
- try some new bagel spread ideas;
- review January vocabulary words from the lesson;
- learn to draw a cup of hot chocolate using simple, step-by-step directions;
- learn how to sign “squirrel” in American Sign Language;
- list of famous January birthdays from the presentation;
- list of January 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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