Today's Classroom Activities :

Cinco de Mayo Activities

Cinco de Mayo
Social Studies Research together the significance of May 5 to our Mexican neighbors. Find out how they will celebrate, and how this holiday is celebrated by Mexican Americans. Have your class plan a celebration of arts around this holiday.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) with some of the resources from this compiled list of online games, word searches and activities. Younger children will love the coloring pages and literacy reading ideas for learning about Mexico.

The Mexico e-book will be a favorite for students grades K-5. Text is highlighted in time with the audio read-aloud, which is narrated by a student. Kids can use maps to discover Mexico and read about the climate, land forms, natural resources, language, symbols, government and other interesting facts.

Students can learn Spanish using the interactive word searches for beginning and challenging levels. The audio support helps ESL/ELL students with English, too. All the coloring pages and word searches can be printed out, and Literacy Tips provide teachers with ideas for use in the classroom. Spanish Games include dozens of categories with three to five different games in each: jig word, speed word, word web, and listen and spell. This is a resource that goes beyond the holiday to fit the multicultural curriculum.

Also use Cinco de Mayo Math to spark a math fiesta!

Your students will love exploring the connections between geometry and probability with this fun worksheet called A Fiesta of Math on Cinco de Mayo!

The Month of May by Eileen Spinelli, a poem to celebrate the merry month of May!