Classroom Celebrations : The Best of Holidays & Seasonal Celebrations [Paperback]

Donna Borst (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

The overwhelming success of the first issues of the Teaching & Learning Company's magazine, Holidays & Seasonal Celebrations, has led to the compilation of the best ideas and activities into one, easy-to-use resource. The selections in this book represent some of the more innovative and frequently requested materials from our first four issues. The recurring holidays, seasons and themes are always timely and never out-of-date.

Each season includes pages of clip art, a Kid Space feature (for school yard learning adventures) and a variety of holiday and seasonal crafts, projects, stories, poems, ideas and activities.

There are bus tag patterns for those hectic first days of school as well as get-acquainted activities, welcoming bulletin boards and room displays, parties, piñatas, pumpkins, poems and puppets to help celebrate fall. Winter is a wonder of stories, crafts, learning activities, recipies and international celebrations. Spring and summer festivities include outdoor fun, books to share, reproducible pages and patterns and much, much more.

Here is the answer to the many requests for copies of back issues of the magazine, to the classroom teachers' ever-present need for timely material.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Donna Borst is the editor of Holidays & Seasonal Celebrations. Free-lancer, writer, wife, excellent cook, mother of two and active participant in her children's education, Donna has spent many hours sorting through the back issues of the magazine to find just the right materials to include in this book.

We would like to thank the many teachers, authors, artists, educators and professionals whose work appears in this book. Their effort and commitment to providing quality educational material has made this book, the magazine and our company a success.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Lorenz Corporation (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573100471
• ISBN-13: 978-1573100472
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,985,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Linda Karges-Bone ( www.educationinsite.com)
Linda Karges-Bone, Ed.D. is a professor in the School of Education at Charleston Southern University, in Charleston, South Carolina, where she prepares future teachers and writes frequently for educational and parenting journals and other media. Dr. Bone is also the director of Education InSite ( www.educationinsite.com) a consulting firm. She has trained thousands of teachers at the graduate and undergraduate level and done workshops and keynotes in 33 states. The author of 28 books, including Differentiated Pathways of the Brain; Breaking Brain Barriers; More Than Pink and Blue: It Is the Gray that Matters; The Educator's Guide to Grants, The Best Lesson Plan Book Ever, A Checklist for Everything, Beyond Hands On: Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, Grant Writing for Teachers, Middle Grade Assessment, A Guide to Long-Range Planning for Schools, and Poems With a Purpose. Her most recent work, under development now is Brain-Framing: Instructional Planning With the Brain in Mind. Dr. Karges-Bone speaks and writes frequently on issues of curriculum, instruction, assessment, gender differences affecting learning, and learning styles. Her work has been published in The Reading Teacher, The SCACTE Journal, American Baby, Growing Parent, The Journal of Staff Development , The Journal of Early Education and Family Review, The Alpha Delta Kappan, The Charleston Regional Business Journal, Christian Parenting Today, Home Life Magazine, Gifted Child Today, Education Forum, Baby Talk, Dimensions, Lowcountry Parent, The New Day, Natural Awakenings, and other professional and popular publications. She is a frequent television guest discussing issues pertinent to family and education and is the creator of the radio messages "Prayerful Parenting", heard nationally on Family Radio Network . Dr. Karges-Bone has written dozens of children's stories published in magazines for teachers and children, and is the author of a series of children's stories on character education. Dr. Karges-Bone earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina, where she received the Tucker Award for "Outstanding Doctoral Candidate" and is a former public and private school teacher, holding current certification in the areas of special education, elementary education, and early childhood education. She was named South Carolina's Woman of Achievement in 1999 and nominated for Alpha Delta Kappa's Honored Educator in 2006. Her current areas of interest include Gender Differences in Teaching and Learning, Brain-Based Classroom Management Strategies, Work-Family Relations, Creativity, Learning Styles, Corporate Motivation, and Differentiated Instruction. She was named to the Gurian Institute's Advisory Board in 2006 and is a consultant for the National Business Institute and Staff Development for Educators. Dr. Karges-Bone lives in coastal South Carolina with her husband, a field engineer for General Electric Healthcare Systems and their two daughters, Carolyn, an attorney in Columbia, SC, Audrey Jayne, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, and a rescue dog named "T.S. Eliot".