Friendship
Day in August. Make an Autograph book. Collect Autographs
from all your friends. Also collect autographs from parents,
cousins, teachers and all who you like. Memories take you to
miles with smiles one day as you check those autographs.
India
Independence Day. Make a Project on India. Collect info and
make sheets on India - How India got it's Independence, make a
flag and write what it means, it's states and capitals,
languages used, historical places, newspapers, festivals, food
habits, village life, urban life and development, maps with fact
file, etc.
JULY 2008
Independence Day Theme.
Collect Independence day celebration pictures and paste in your
scrap. Write your National Anthem and jot down all about how
your country became Independent. Write how you will help your
country in need of hour. Also find 4th July Craft Ideas (Crafts for Kids)
(India Independence -
US Independence)
Chocolate day -
Collect chocolate recipes and make a colorful recipe book.my Recipes
National Ice-cream Month.
Find History of Ice-creams. Find your fav Ice-cream flavors,
make a list.
Make crafts like Ice-cream cones and stick colorful
decorations on it. Find more Crafts ideas from Kaboose.com
(Crafts for Kids)
(
my
winning Recipes )
Get back to
School pages here and Set up your
Goals. Write down your Goals and what you would like to achieve
by end of this academic year.
World Environment Day
on 5th June. Make this an Environment Month. Make Environment
Project - Write, draw and color environment pics, make poster
with trees, etc. and write How can you help to Save environment.
You may also plant trees, do gardening, collect leaves and add
to Scrap book and write on them, make poems on trees and more.
You can explore
Environment pages on Kidsfreesouls and make your own Earth
Talk Q & A Project Book. Click right click and save the pictures
and stick to your project and add the Q & A in short.
MAY 2008
Asparagus
- CARTOON MONTH : Cartoon Fun
and Cartoon Kids pages at
Kidsfreesouls - check Site of the Month. Collect Cartoon images
and stick in scrap book. Write on Cartoons and which Cartoons
you like most. What is your favorite Cartoon TV channel. Make a
Poster with Cartoon Character. Archie
Day or (any cartoon character) : Read books on Archie (cartoon)
- share with friends, write reviews. Watch Cartoon by setting
time, day for the month.
LIMERICKS
MONTH: Collect Limericks from
Kidsfreesouls site, other sites. Make a colorful Limericks file
by adding all Limerick print outs from the web. Learn Poetry
Soup and try write your own Limerick. Mother's
Day : Make a Hand Made Card for
Mom. Write a letter to your Mom what
she means to you and express your gratitude. As
exams get over with the summer vacations here, children have
ample time for creativity. Kids can browse through
Fairy Land, read the stories and make a Story Project -
print stories, read and add to file, write reviews, paste
stickers, draw and
color story character, etc. Also, click for the For Kids page and enjoy
activities.
APRIL 2008
National
Poetry Month : In US, National Poetry Month is more 'Learning
Poetry, Writing
Poetry' - How to Write
a Poetrysession
can be taken in classrooms and children can select their own
topics on like, writing poetry with names of all animals,
colors, places or maybe on what they'd like to be, etc. Know the
words, build vocabulary and learn how to rhyme. Here's on How to
write a Poem. They can also make a scrap book and write their
fav poems or pin up poetry charts on soft board of their
classroom/bedroom/study room.
Titanic sank in April.
Children can collect information on this. They can have a hobby
project - write on the hobby and paste all pictures of ships,
boats, etc. or their hobby like stamps, greeting cards, etc.
As
exams get over with the summer vacations here, children have
ample time for creativity. Kids can browse through
Fairy Land, read the stories and make a Story Project -
print stories, read and add to file, write reviews, paste
stickers, draw and
color story character, etc. Also, click for the For Kids page and enjoy
activities.
Shakespeare was born in April and
World book day is celebrated too. Kids can make Literature
Project in summer. Visit Literature
Profiles here and take prints, add to file and find poetry.
They can also join
the Literature Hero Project and send Kidsfreesouls
all information on a Literature character, works, pic, etc. or
send Book reviews for stories read.
MARCH 2008
Breakfast Week is from
5 - 9 March and
Newspaper in Education Week (NIE
Week) is
7-12 March - Work out a one
week Nutritious Breakfast for kids. Make a Daily Recipe Chart by
Adding Fruits, Juices, Green Vegetables, cereals and all the
stuff healthy for children. Ask the child to make their own
Recipe Chart. Make Child Nutrition a priority. Serve the best
healthy Breakfast to the whole family for a week. Gift kids best
Table wares like Mug, Glass, Mats, Bowls and also can follow up
a Table Manners Session.
Get to do a Online NIE Project for the class or
your child. Use the NIE Tips
on Kidsfreesouls and make use of the Content Ideas to teach a
child to read and learn Online reading.
FEBRUARY 2008
February is a month for Valentine.
Many kids and teenagers celebrate Valentine Day, however,
children do not know the Why of celebrating. Parents and
Teachers may surf the
Valentine pages
on Kidsfreesouls and chart out projects.
Projects like
Bird Myths,
Love Gods,
Flowers,
etc. Kids can make Scraps - You can print and paste these pages
in your scrap or draw+color or stick pics and write the
information.
Children Dental Health Month - A session
on Dental Health can be taken in the classroom. Why Brushing
teeth is must, how to brush, etc. Also, children can make
posters on "Happiness is a Healthy Smile" or make colorful
drawings "My Smile".
JANUARY 2008
Quotation Month
: January is the
month for Kite flying. Make a scrap book and jot down all the
quotes you find on Kidsfreesouls Quotes or Real Stuff. You can
even search the web to find Quotes by famous leaders, celebrity
quotes, Inspirational, motivational or any. Make some kites and
write selected quotes on it. Display on school walls or your
room. Why, fly them high and when the kite is cut, your quote
message will reach to one who gets it. By trying to find a few
quotations, children end up learning many and can even use them
while writing compositions, letters, etc.
Collect Fairy Tales from Grimm's Fairy Tales :
Jacob Grimms was born this month. So, collect fairy tales
from Grimm's Fairy Tales books and write reviews. It is so much
fun to read, narrate and write reviews of
Hansel & Gretel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderalla, Sleeping Beauty etc.
Children can
even paste stickers in their scraps.
DECEMBER
Computer Literacy Month: Make the Children Lean new Technology keeping in mind
the Safety Rules. Before getting on the web, let the kids know
proper method of typing on the keyboards - know the parts of the
computer and how to operate the basic programs. Make them use
the Educational CDs and Games on Computer to master the
computing skills. Also, make children aware of using
Kidsfreesouls and other Safe surfing websites - With technology
changing rules, even Safe sites take children to other pages for
which safe sites are not responsible. Hence, make the children
aware of Safety Rules and all that goes with Social networkings,
chats, emails and forwards, etc.
Let kids explore on computer and make use of Kidsfreesouls
sections like FOR KIDS and all
links on this page and guiding them and encouraging them to
write poetry, jokes, riddles, book reviews, etc. It is not
necessary for a child to be online to explore but even a parent
can use the contents and encourage children to hook to
activities with worksheets and other sections on kidsfreesouls.
Kids can explore the Kids Blogs. Make scrap books with
kidsfreesouls content. Projects like Literature can have print
out of Literature character + profile and paste on room or
school board. Enjoy!
NOVEMBER
Book Reading &
Writing Reviews -
Story
telling is a gateway into the heart of a child and I'm sure many
of the tiny toddlers would like to listen to a story before they
sleep. Stories like Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, etc.
influence the child and they learn the
Moral Values . Read
the stories aloud to kids and also find the
trouble shooting areas on their
reading habits. Teachers/Parents may follow the
Guidelines and use these stories for
'Project work' - Make them read, write reviews, know the moral
and find what part they like best and why. The kids can read the
following stories in brief:
After reading loudly, help them to Narrate the story. Later,
write a Book Review.
1. Name of the Book
2. Main Characters in the Book
3. Who they like best
4. Best Part of the story they like
5. Hard Words
6. Moral of the story
7. Teacher/Parent's sign & give stars
Get to Swagat Children Library
Page for further Book Reviews Hall of Fame List and members.
Supportive to reading, conduct various activities mentioned
therein.
Send their Book reviews to
Kidsfreesouls Kids Blog Reporters @
freesoul@kidsfreesouls.com and they will select the best to
put on web.
Story Writing Month
With Reading in
progress for at least half an hour of various stories, follow 'How
to Write a Story' and let the kids get to imagine to write a
paragraph. Gradually, help them to write a para and
blog it here. By end of
the month, you can find a story written with a child's
imagination in a simple way. If you want, you can write a para a
week and you have four simple paragraphs. This can be a
beginning to make them write simple short stories.
November - a Geography Awareness
Month and it can be quick to find Kidsfreesouls on the
map here.
Kids can sort to find different places on
Google Maps
or in an Atlas and all the geographical locations, etc. For More
Projects this month, click for the Calendar and Projects from the
Kids News page links.
Enjoy!
OCTOBER
Colorful world of Stamps and a hobby collecting them is
great fun and exchanging with friends. October is the month for the
World Post Day. Celebrated on 9th October, the anniversary of the
establishment of the Universal Postal
Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern, it was declared World Post
Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then,
countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations. The
Posts in many countries use the event to introduce or promote new postal
products and services.
Stamp Collecting is a great hobby
- it combines learning of geography, travel, history and even admiring
people and fond cartoon characters. Philately is an all time favorite
hobby also one of the channels for education - The World Post Day can
revive the fading Letter writing to epals.
Here's the Google
search above where you can find a host of Indian stamps on the
WEB
.
Most of us have stopped using a writing instrument
with the new tech gadgets. Let kids write Letters to friends - Collect
and exchange Stamps. Send Letters to Kidsfreesouls
too and exchange stamps also - Children can explore Creativity -
Creative people generally show a spirit of Intellectual entertainment,
make efforts to document ideas, day dream them and feel happy - spread
happiness around. Find some stamps/stickers for your Project.
October is a month set aside to focus on the importance of the
newer technology and understand the importance of the role it plays in
our lives. Every day is a new learning experience and as we drift on the
web, learning is more gaining Computer literacy.Computer Learning month has more
spreading awareness and teaching technology, communication, building a
world of freedom, understanding, knowing the current events, showing
talents and above all, get to be tech savvy with the computer literacy. You can find the Computing section
on Kidsfreesouls.com - For the Computer Literacy, the
NIE Tips can be helpful for learning Computers
in the classroom. A host of activities for the whole month and sure, you
have easy setting up the Blog, Google Pages, using G Docs, writing
jokes, poems, and many more tips mentioned therein.
SEPTEMBER
Did you know,
September has a Banned Books week? It is observed since 1982 and this
Banned Books week celebrate the mark of freedom to read.
This year, the week-long Banned Books
celebrations will be held from Sept 29-6 October. Banned
Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the
American
Library Association (ALA), the Association of American Publishers,
the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National
Association of College Stores.The
Library of Congress Center for the Book endorses it.
Many
bookstores and libraries join in and Kidsfreesouls, every year announce
the Banned Books week
here. You will find ideas on How to Celebrate Banned Books week
here. Find the Most challenged Books of 2006 and lots to go there.
More
than the book, the Banned Book Day is now challenged. ALA marked
the 25th anniversary earlier of Banned Books Day and every year, it's
storehouse of information on it's website. Its your ticket to freedom.
Freedom to read the books that you missed out.
Get-set-ready to read Books -
Encourage Reading
and celebrate Freedom. Make the Banned Books Project and dive into the
ocean of knowledge.
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