Jan. 3, 2007: 2007 Calendar

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Activities:

1. Select one of the holidays or events that take place in the month a friend or family member was born. Design a greeting card for that special day. Share your greeting card with that friend or family member.

2. Select three comic strip characters in the newspaper. Paste pictures of the characters down the side of a piece of paper. Now find a holiday or week/month that you think would appeal to each character. Write the holiday next to the character and explain why you made that choice.

3. Select a non-religious holiday from today's Mini Page. Design a community event to celebrate the day. Identify three people from the newspaper whom you would invite to your event. Why would you select those people?

4. Which of the holidays, weeks or months in The Mini Page calendar relate to (a) famous people, (b) different cultures, (c) science, (d) religion and (e) nature?

5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn why special topics or cultural groups are celebrated in particular months. Select five special recognitions, such as Women¹s History Month, National Inventors' Month or National Dairy Month. Research the celebrations to discover: Why was the recognition selected for special attention? What individuals or groups proposed and supported the recognition? Why was the recognition placed in the month it is? How is the week/month celebrated?

This week's standard:

• Students understand people and events honored in commemorative holidays. (History)
  
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)