Jan. 7, 2009: A Kid's 2009 Calendar

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in the Rocky Mountain News. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Pick one of the special months in today's Mini Page calendar. For that month, draw a picture you could put on a large calendar.

2. Pick an unusual special day from the calendar that you think would be fun to celebrate. Plan a party for that day. Make a list of foods for your party from newspaper ads. Select three comic strip characters you would like to invite.

3. What is your favorite one-day celebration? Week celebration? Month celebration? Have a friend choose his/her favorites. Now talk about your choices.

4. Which holidays would be popular with your (a) social studies teacher, (b) science teacher, (c) music or art teacher, and (d) principal?

5. Select one of the individuals or groups from the Mini Page's 2008 memories. Plan a national holiday for your individual or group. What would you call your day? What kinds of decorations would you use? What special activities or foods would you have? Write a description of your new holiday in a paragraph.

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)