D97 Library News December 2014
Elementary Edition
December News
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Some Important December Events
December 4: National Cookie Day
Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and find lesson plans here.
Take a look at Scholastic's Teacher Guide to Pearl Harbor.
December 16: Hanukkah Begins, Los Posadas Begins
Learn to make a dreidel or study Los Posadas on Culturegrams (below)!
December 21: Winter Solstice
A blizzard of winter lessons!
December 24-25: Christmas Eve/Day
Do a Christmas Craft from Enchanted Learning.
December 26: Kwanzaa Begins
Read K is for Kwanzaa: A Kwanzaa Alphabet Book by Juwanda Ford or Seven Candles for Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Find them in the online catalog.
Books We Like!
Too Many Tamales
Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
Watch it on BookFlix under Celebrations!
Kwanzaa
Discusses the holiday in which African-Americans celebrate their roots and cultural heritage.
Available in all of the elementary schools! Use the online catalog to search for it and other books about Kwanzaa.
Light the Lights! A Story About Hanukkah and Christmas
The story of how one family keeps the traditions of both Hanukkah and Christmas.
Great for comparing and contrasting.