Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year is upon us, in fact it is Friday, Feb. 16, given this I have compiled some resources for those of you wishing to mark the occasion.

Scholastic, has a page dedicated to the Lunar New Year with lesson plans, articles and videos.

TeacherVision, also has put together a collection of materials with printables, literature, videos and more.

The Teacher's Guide, is focused on the Chinese New Year and has Zodiac, Proverb, Tangrams resources and more. 

TES, is also focused on the Chinese New Year and has wide arrange resources.

Learn about TET, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year Celebration.

Teachers Pay Teachers also has some great (not free) resources for TET, ChineseNew Year, Lunar New Year

 

Vashti Harrison

I am going to share about an author/illustrator because I think it is disappoint the lengths that I had to go to share a video about her with all of you.  Under "normal" circumstances I would have just share the video but since I had to screencast the book trailer below, because it is not available on any of the video platforms that are compatible with this program. I though I would take the time to draw this to your attention and share more about her even though there's little technology connection here.

Vashti Harrison recently published a best-selling children's book called Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History.   Her website has some good information about her writing and illustrating of this book as well as a drawing page that you can print out and use with students of all ages. You can also see a great interview from the DailyShow with Trevor Noah.

 

 

Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics start on Friday night in PyeongChang, South Korea.  I have scoured the internet to bring you all some resources about the Olympics.

BrainPop Jr unfortunately has nothing related to the Olympics.  BrainPop does for grade 3-6 there are some great lessons, Including: Olympics, Athens, TimeZone X Olympics, & TimeZone X Athens.

Scholastic has a lovely page set up where you can find all of their Olympics materials. Including lesson plans for all ages and book resources.

Read, Write, Think has a lesson where students can act as reporters for the Olympics, write poems or speeches for after winning a gold medal; they can also create stamps commemorating the games and so much more.

Teachers Pay Teachers has a wide variety of materials for purchase and for free including word searches, money activities, reading challenges and much more.

The School Library Journal has an article entitled 15 Tech Tidbits To Bring the 2018 Winter Olympic Into Your Classroom​ there are hyperlinks within the article as well.  There was a link to an article high school and sport hijabs that was in The Washington Post. 

Education World has also set up a page dedicated to this Winter Olympic Games.  There you can find many lesson ideas mostly for grades 3 and up.

The Olympics Website also has lots of great information about all Olympics but specifically these games.