Teacher's Calendar 05-06

This book offers a year's worth of ideas and activities to revitalize every teacher's class. "I see this as an absolutely necessary tool no matter what your subject area or grade level. The information contained in the index alone is worth the price of this book!" - Alexis Ludewig, Wisconsin Teacher of the Year, 2002. "The kids especially like the internet links to find special facts about a given day of the year." - Tracy Callard, Kansas Teacher of the Year, 2002. "A wonderful resource to supplement our required curriculum!" - Melinda Day Webster, Tennessee Teacher of the Year, 2002. For more than five years, "The Teacher's Calendar" has been a fixture in classrooms and school libraries across the country. You will find innovative ideas for lessons, bulletin boards, and school calendars on every page. Sidebars highlight specific dates and provide curriculum ideas, lists of appropriate books, and related websites. It contains 5,000 month-by-month, day-by-day listings, all fully updated and revised. It includes 50 new essays on how to use this material in your classroom, with appendixes with U.S., Canada, and Mexico at-a-glance facts, and more! With its extensive listings and seemingly inexhaustible treasure of classroom ideas, "The Teacher's Calendar" will take the guesswork out of lesson planning, and put fun and creativity back into your classroom.