New Year’s Eve: A Cultural Guide to Ōmisoka
Teacher’s Guide to Ōmisoka – Japanese New Year’s Eve 🎊 🔔 🍜 Teacher’s Guide to Ōmisoka Japanese New Year’s Eve Target Audience: K-5th Grade Educators Cultural Context: Japanese Traditions Timing:…
A Cultural Guide to Hanukkah
🕎 ✨ 🕯️ Teacher’s Guide to Hanukkah The Festival of Lights Target Audience: K-5th Grade Educators Cultural Context: Jewish Traditions Timing: 8 days beginning on the 25th of Kislev (November…
Rosh Hashanah Apple and Honey Garden GAME
This digital drag-and-drop activity invites learners to pair apples and honey while exploring the tradition of wishing for a sweet new year! As students drag, drop, and match apples with…
Back-to-School with a Braille Slate & Name Card Craft
The start of a new school year is all about introductions, building connections, and creating a welcoming classroom community. With this Braille Slate & Name Card Craft, students design their…
A Day with No Words – Book Review
As we close out World Autism and Neurodiversity Awareness Month, Editor of This Month, Helina Seyoum, reviews one of her favorite illustrated children’s storybooks. Enjoy the book with your learners…
World Autism Awareness Day
In honor of World Autism Awareness Day and to kick off World Autism Month, we’d like to share a collaborative craft that you can do with your learners. This craft…
Lantern Craft Completing Lunar New Year Education
Watch the full video below👇 Festival and tradition: On the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, a lantern festival, marks the full moon, and the…
Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
By Michelle A. Duffy, Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Kristen A. Munger (OpenSUNY) Abstract This chapter addresses…
Why not ask a parent?
Are you in the market for more children’s books that carry meaningful stories and introduce the children in your care to new concepts, ideas, people and situations that make them…
