Here’s a list of authors and illustrators as well as a few famous people with birthdays in December. You can find more famost people at http://holidayinsights.com/bday/ or the birthday calendar from Perma Bound. 1 Jan Brett, author 2 David Macaulay, author 3 Barbara Brooks Wallace, author 4 Munro Leaf, author 5 Jim Kjelgaard, author 5 Harve… More December Birthdays
Here’s the list of monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations for this month. Watch for a list of birthdays soon. Feel free to adapt the list below to meet your needs. If you want to look at other lists, I have used Holiday Insights and National Day Calendar as well as calendars I receive from publishers.… More December 2020
We like to display a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations. Watch for a list of birthdays in a couple of days. Feel free to adapt the list below to meet your needs. If you want to look at other… More December 2019
Every month I post the birthdays of our students, faculty and staff in the window between the library and the school hallway. I also try to include the birthdays of authors, illustrators and famous people the kiddos may be familiar with or should be. Since many schools are shut down next week for Thanksgiving break,… More December Birthdays
If you are like me, you have one week left to plan for before the holidays. You know the kids will be “squirrelly” so you don’t want to do a skills lesson and you’ve got to have an activity of some sort to keep them engaged. I’ve done come searching and have come up with… More Christmas Planning Help for Teachers and Librarians
I don’t know about your students, but ours seemed to forget how to behave after just one week off. Or maybe it’s because Christmas is just around the corner. During the break, two of my grown children came to the library with me to help decorate for Christmas. I enjoy having it Christmas-y when the… More Week by Week Series – Week 14
Each month our library displays a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations, as well as the birthdays of famous people and authors/illustrators. For our display, I also include the birthdays of our students and faculty. Feel free to adapt the… More December 2018