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September 6: Pilgrims Set Sail form Plymuth, England, 1620
Learn about the Mayflower voyage and how the colonies were founded.
September 13: Author Roald Dahl's Birthday, 1916
Read about this famous author with this About the Author page. Read from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then have students create a poem like Dahl did for each child in book.
September 16: Independence Day, Mexico
Learn about important dates in Mexican history with this fun board game activity.
September 22: First Day of Autumn
Celebrate the first day of Autumn with this collage art activity.
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Start the school year off right with these tips, tricks, and lessons for your classroom.
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- Count Coins and Bills
- Students will learn the names and values of different denominations of paper money ($1, $5, $10, and $20), count sets of money that include both coins and bills, complete a money chart, and read and solve word problems.
- Grades 1 - 3
- Subjects: Mathematics and Problem Solving
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- Graphing Candy-Coated Chocolates
- Students will use candy-coated chocolates or paper representations of candy-coated chcolates to make real graphs.
- Grades 1 - 3
- Subjects: Mathematics and Algebra and Function
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- The Louisiana Purchase
- Students will demonstrate fluency and comprehension in reading historically based text.
- Grades 5 - 8
- Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Reading, Reading Comprehension and United States History
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- Ancient Greece (Sparta)
- Students will identify that Spartan civilization was founded upon a militaristic point of view that allowed no tolerance for contrary views or physical limitations.
- Grades 5 - 8
- Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Reading, Fluency, Reading Comprehension and Ancient History
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- Buying and Selling Stocks
- Students learn about the stock market.
- Grades 5 - 8
- Subjects: Social Studies
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