Today's Classroom Activities :
Starting a New Year
What are your New Year's resolutions for 2010? Set goals for the rest of the school year. Create a timeline for achieving your goals.
MONOPOLY® patented
The Monopoly game is over 70 years old! Monopoly was patented in 1935 on December 31. Can you find out how many Monopoly games have been sold? Research other board games to find out their history. Create a Monopoly board for your community. What would Boardwalk be called? What forms of transportation would you use? What subdivisions and landmarks would you include?
Reading Make paper plate clocks without numbers and invite students to make "calendar clocks" featuring fall leaves, snowflakes, spring flowers and the summer sun.
Children can also make "daily action" clocks and draw people eating or getting ready for bed, etc., in the appropriate areas of the clock.
Then read the following poem to your class and have them move the hands of their clocks at the appropriate times.
Clocks and Calendars
by Heidi Roemer
Time for breakfast, lunch, dinner;
Time to shave and shower.
A day is made of bits of time –
Seconds, minutes, hours.
Time for Spring, Summer, Fall;
Time for Winter cheer.
Days and weeks and months add up –
A brand new year is here!
Happy New Year!
Healthier Resolutions - With the holidays safely behind us, now is the perfect time to think about getting back into shape.
New Year's Calendar
Students can create their own special calendar for the coming year with this activity.
New Year's Piñata
Break into the New Year with a paper bag piñata filled with treats and small toys.
