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  • (-) Holiday & School Celebration

Grades

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Learning Objectives

  • (-) writing genres (3)
  • collaboration (2)
  • Comprehension (1)
  • critical thinking (7)
  • multicultural awareness (2)
  • multimodal literacy (1)
  • oral communication (2)
  • reading genres (2)
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  • writing process (1)

Topics

  • (-) seasons / holidays
  • poetry
  • science
Today is Leap Day!
Grades
3 - 7
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Today is Leap Day!
Our solar year is 365.24219 days. Since our calendar does not deal in partial days, every four years, we add an additional day to February.
Valentine's Day is today!
Grades
3 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Valentine's Day is today!
Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the class.
Celebrate Halloween!
Grades
3 - 8
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Celebrate Halloween!
Students research information on Halloween, create masks or costumes from a text they are reading, or write a narrative essay describing their best Halloween ever.

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