autumn

Good general site from Universal Studios with coloring pages, games, ghostcards, celebrations around the world, safety tips, pumpkin decorating, costumes and party ideas

http://www.halloweenkids.com/

A site with a lot of great ideas for decorating pumpkins.

http://www.jack-o-lantern.com/patterns/patterns.html

Halloween Lessons and Resources

This is from the Learning Network, a commercial website developed in large part by education publishers. The Halloween page has history, games, literature, and crafts for all ages. Very entertaining!

http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3178.html
Units and Lessons for Halloween

Links to lesson plans with a Halloween theme: Pumpkin Science, Math, Songs and Finger Games for Music, Art activities, and themed Reading and Language Arts. Good Site!

http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/halloweenlesson.html
Kid's Domain Halloween Fun

Activities, clip art, scary pictures, games, and more at this fun site.

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/halloween/
Halloween from the Idea Box

Crafts, activities, games and recipes perfect for the primary grades.

http://www.theideabox.com/special.nsf/halloween.html
Hosting A Harry Potter Halloween Party

This was just too much fun not to share :-)

http://entertaining.about.com/style/entertaining/library/weekly/aa090400a.htm

Election Day

The Election Process explained

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/election/index.html

Election Vocabulary

Unique website that teaches election vocabulary in a fun way with online comic strips. It also has other word-related activities like sentence/matching fill-ins, crossword puzzles and create-a-stories using the comic strip format.

http://www.vocabulary.com/election.html

Veterans' Day

Helping Students Understand a Day of Rememberance

http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/misc/veterans/

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/veterans/

http://www.umkc.edu/imc/vetsday.htm

http://www.noblenet.org/year/veterans.htm

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6674.html

This one from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs is particularly well done. It has great links and free posters to download and print:

http://www.va.gov/vetsday/

Thanksgiving

These pages have many links to Thanksgiving history and activites:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/thanks/

http://members.aol.com/mrdonnlessons/USHolidays.html#THANKS

http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/

http://www.historychannel.com/thanksgiving/

http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/

Everything you ever wanted to know about turkeys :-)

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/bird/wildturkey.htm

Plimoth Plantation

Plimoth-on-Web is the living history museum of the seventeenth century in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Visitors may learn more about the Pilgrim Story, the history of Plymouth Colony (1620-1692), the Wampanoag Indians, Thanksgiving, and find links to related sites on the Web.

First Grade Theme-Apples (poems, songs, books and activities)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8854/apples.html

Johnny Appleseed Hidden Pictures (can print and do on paper)

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/apples.htm

Johnny Appleseed Crossword Puzzle (played online)

http://www.marshall-es.marshall.k12.tn.us/jobe/Appleseed.html

Johnny Appleseed Story (another short version)

http://www.applejuice.org/johnnyappleseed.html

Columbus Day

Innovative Teaching - Columbus Day

Walter McKenzie's newsletter features Christopher Columbus links. These are resources that can help you in examining the controversial explorer in fascinating ways. You will find some very interesting sites here!

http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/columbus.htm
Discoverers Web

All kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration - with timelines and maps. It also has an alphabetical list of explorers

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html
The Columbus Navigation Homepage

Everything you ever wanted to know about Columbus and his voyages.

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

Jack-o-Lantern Patterns