This May Holidays Digital Bulletin Board is a scrolling slideshow of multiple May holiday traditions around the world with fun facts and trivia, plus a list of Recommended Reads.
Includes “big” holidays like Teacher Appreciation Week, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day, plus lesser-known celebrations like World Otter Day and National Clean Your Room Day.
This product has 66 slides & pages, and it includes:
- 54-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 May-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 41 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 57 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)
54 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- This May Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor May holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of May celebrations mentioned).
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “mariachi” and “ukulele”
- Fun facts about otters, the first walk on the moon, emeralds, and more!
- Famous May birthdays, featuring:
- L. Frank Baum – May 6, 1919
- Florence Nightingale – May 12, 1820
- Edward Jenner – May 17, 1749
- Sally Ride – May 26, 1951
- Lily of the valley and the common hawthorn (May flowers)
- Emerald (May birthstone)
- 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
May holidays and traditions included:
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month,
- May Day (1st),
- National School Principal’s Day (1st),
- Mother Goose Day (1st),
- National Play Your Ukulele Day (2nd),
- International Wild Koala Day (3rd),
- Cinco de Mayo (5th),
- National Astronaut Day (5th),
- National Nurses Week (6th – 12th),
- Mother’s Day (second Sunday in May),
- National Clean Your Room Day (10th),
- Bond With Your Dog Day (May 14th),
- World Turtle Day (23rd),
- Paper Airplane Day (26th),
- Memorial Day (last Monday in May),
- World Otter Day (last Wednesday in May),
- National School Lunch Hero Day (last Friday in May), and
- World Parrot Day (31st).
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page May Library Handout, students can:
- quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the May Digital Bulletin Board;
- Learn to make pico de gallo for Cinco de Mayo;
- Review May vocabulary words from the lesson;
- Learn to draw a shy turtle using simple, step-by-step directions;
- Learn how to sign “turtle” in American Sign Language;
- List of famous May birthdays from the presentation;
- List of May 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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