An Australian Online Calendar for a Year - Includes Lessons and Activities

My Site Australia Day	Activity Village Australia Day	Web Tech Huge list of sites
Word Find Word Find	Puzzles	Virtual Teacher Excellent links
Koala Can you draw his other side?	WordFind	Yahoo Yahoo links
Create your own WordSearch here Create your own Crossword here	Words emu,sun,thongs,koala,fleet, sand,flag,kangaroo,land,gulls,platypus, summer,hot,gumtree,beach

School Starts Some activities.

Back to school and All About Me theme for younger grades.

All About You - A Scavenger Hunt Yr 3/4
All About Me - a theme

New Friends First School Day \| Icebreakers \| First Day Ideas

Chinese New Year My Page

When is the Chinese New Year's Day in Year 2006?
January 29, 2006 is the first day of the new year.
China Diary – 4703 Is Upon Us.
4703 should be a great year for China. According to the Chinese calendar, the new year will start on January 29 and on the Chinese calendar it will be the year 4703. It may also be known as the Year of the Dog, bingxu or the 7th year in the 60 year cycle. New Year’s Day last year was February 9th and the year before in was January 22nd and included a Leap Month instead of the western Leap Year day. There are beautiful lights on all the large buildings in Guangzhou. The Christmas Trees and 15 metre high inflatable Santas have been stashed away and quickly replaced with New Year decorations. Typical is the Chun Lian which is a type of colourful calligraphy, written in the form of a couplet, which contains some kind of message of hope for the new year such as:

Whole Earth Returns Spring
Winter gone mountain clear water sparkles
Spring comes bird sings flower fragrant

Red seems to be the lucky colour and everywhere there are the Chinese version of a Christmas tree, a small mandarin tree, laden with fruit. Soon the dragons will also come out. The Chinese consider that they are decedents of the dragon and that dragons bring abundance, prosperity and good fortune. The whole country shuts down for a week and I have been warned about the consequences of 1 billion people all trying to get home to visit their relatives (not to mention the millions of Chinese who live in other countries and want to return home for the celebration). I doubt that the warning can prepare you for something like this. So I am going to sit tight and watch the show unfold.
Words www.PrimarySchool.com.au
Picture apples4theteacher.com

What is the Chinese New Year called? The Year of the ........ ?

Chinese New Year Customs
The date of Chinese New Year varies because the Chinese use a different calendar to the Westerners. The Western calendar is based on the movement of the earth around the sun while the Chinese calendar is based on the movement of the moon around the sun. The Chinese calendar only has 354 days in the year, but still has 12 months. Chinese New Year usually lies between January 21 to February 19 on the Western calendar.

Link 1		Yahoo Links		A Virtual Chinese Museum
	Link 2		Various Printable Activities		About China

Chinese Language
"Get your own Chinese name, like mine below, based on your English name and find out your sign in the Chinese

Zodiac! Simply type in your first and last name, select what kind of characteristics you want to be expressed in the name, select your gender, enter your birth date and press "Get a Name!"" here.
Link is from here.

February

Winter Olympics
Opening date: 10 February 2006
Closing date: 26 February 2006
Country of the host city: Italy (ITA)
Official Site
My Winter Olympics Page

Feb. 14 Valentine's Day Use the clickable pictures to go to activities.

Gander Academy. Great Site!	Games	Billy Bear's Site	DLTK Site
Yahooligans			Enchanted Learning
			Easy level.

Valentine's Day Activities / Lessons
Nieworld	Lessonplanspage	Activitiesforkids
Apples4theteacher	Kinderart	Classroom Activities Geocities
http://members.tripod.com/	Vocabulary.com Vocabulary activities	Teach-nology
A huge list of links Virtualquincy	Themeunits Learn about the heart	Maze maker Hereandabove
Proteacher	Kaboose Resources.kaboose	Lots of activities for younger children http://www.123child.com Holidays http://www.123child.com/links/

A to Z of Teachers Stuff http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

Valentine's Sheet

Feb 17
Sydney: Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson, poet & journalist has his birthday.

Feb 22
Darwin: Australian airman Bert Hinkler completes first solo flight from England to Australia.

Feb. 28
Pancake Day - About - from the Uniting Church
Pancake Day is held annually on Shrove Tuesday - Wikipedia entry and explanation.
In 2006 Pancake Day falls on Tuesday 28 February.

Some lessons/activities from America - Lessonplanspage
Pancakes are usually made by mixing flour, eggs, milk and a bit of salt. Loads of recipes from the always reliable
BBC. Some really fancy. Also, has heaps of recipes and an activity sheet

March

Autumn USA Based

Autumn - a resource for year 2 http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us [Made 1999] from http://www.kidskonnect.com

Leaf activities for younger kids

http://www.fastq.com Lots of ideas.

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca

Teacher Planet Heaps of links.

Teaching Heart - lots of nice activities http://teachingheart.net/afallunit.html

For younger grades http://www.first-school.ws

Autumn - UK Based

Activityvillage.co.uk

My Autumn theme

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games - my page from
March 15 - 26

K-2

Saint Patrick's Day

Help kids celebrate the holiday with green jelly, fluff, green punch, green shamrock pie, green slime, Irish mud pie, or leprechaun cookies. Also, kids craft activities, printouts and games.

Homeschoolzone	Amazingmoms	Fvsd
Childfun	Kidsturncentral	Funmunch.com
Netnanny	Fastq	Activityvillageuk
Kinderart	Ireland	History of St. Patrick's Day
Bobsedulinks	Webtech at Kennesaw { University }	Akidsheart

Printables
Kids creativity-portal	Kidsdomain	Theteachersguide
Atozteacherstuff	Enchanted learning	Dltk-holidays
Thekidzpage Games too.	Billybear4kids	Vickiblackwell
k2printables	Tooter4kids	Teach-nology
Kidsturncentral	Education-world	First-school
Apples4theteacher	National Geographic Wild and Wacky Story	Blackdogs
Games http://www.gamequarium.com/stpatricks.html http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/stpatday/default.htm Thematic Units http://www.beehappyteaching.com/saintpatricksday.html http://www.renfrew.edu.on.ca/elm/rck/STPat.htm March 21 Harmony Day - Classroom activities R - 7+			*Pictures from Thekidzpage

April

April Fools Day

April 1st

Anzac Day April 25th 1 - Articles

Tasmania Educ.

Duffy Library - Anzac Day

Yahoo! -Oz holidays

Sir Charles Kingsford -Smith

Easter Various Dates. 2006 Dates are April 14 - 17th

Hewlett Packard

Decorations, Art, Masks, Parades.

Games

Masks

My Easter Activities

1 Art/Puzzles

2 Lang/ Puzzles

2 2005

3 Craft Ideas

3 Masks

My Easter Pages

1 2006

3 2004

2006 - Earth Day - April 22
Climate Solutions Campaign - Jackie Miers

Climate change
Earth Day Org 2006

May

Mother's Day

On 15 May 1928, the Aerial Medical Service was established as a one year experiment at Cloncurry in Queensland. Later became The Royal Flying Doctor Service

June

Winter

Winter Theme Page Very Comprehensive!	Printed Sheet
Clouds	Weather Activities
Winter from Enchanted Learning	Ed Helper Winter theme
Winter fro Teach-nology	Scholastic Winter Fun Pages K - 3 and 3 - 8 A wintry week K-2
ABC Teach Free Pages and Here too	For Younger Children
Teaching Heart - Winter	Teacher Vision Theme
Ed Tech Kennesaw - a favourite of mine - Seasons	DLTK - crafts, colouring pages
Winter Themed Maths Pages Various Grades	Colouring Pages from "Coloring ws" - Winter Theme - Another Favourite
AtoZTeacher has some free lesson plan ideas	My School Online Links1 Links2 Links3
K - 3 Winter Pages	Excellent Resource at Teacher Planet for Winter and another called Snow and Ice for those interested

World Environment Day June 5
Deserts And Desertification The theme for World Environment Day 2006 is Deserts and Desertification; the slogan for World Environment Day this year is Don’t Desert Drylands.

Jackie Miers http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/

My Environment Pages Saving Planet Earth Wet and Dry Environments Endangered Animals
Natural Disasters Clouds Pollution Rainforests Water
http://www.worksheets4teachers.com/

Nature's Recyclers	Tiny Talk Weather	Endangered Species	Air Pollution A to Z Workbook	Reduce, Reuse & Recycle Colouring Book

Soccer - World Cup
Links
Activities Look This Up In which country is the Soccer World Cup being held? Show this on a map. Find the flags of two of the countries in the finals. KidPix Make a picture of soccer players playing their match. Include the flags of the countries playing. Show the crowd watching the match in the stands. They will be in their team colours. Find out what those colours are and use them to show the crowd. Soccer Games Develop a class match where the children with a partner compete for a “prize”. Some possible sites are Soccer Pong http://www.capitalregionsoccer.com/games/SoccerGame.html Java Applet http://probability.ca/jeff/java/soccer.html Slime Soccer http://www.soccer-for-parents.com/slime-soccer.html Funbrain Soccer http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/fract.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&A15=0 Soccer Shootout http://www.cbc.ca/kids/games/soccershootout/ Bonus http://www.bonus.com/contour/stickypongpit/http@@/mark-horsell.co.uk/stickypong/index.html and http://www.bonus.com/bonus/list/v2k1_yellow_soccer.html Soccer http://www.juggernart.com/games/index.html Kaboose http://www.sikids.com/games/rocketsoccer/ Yahooligans http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/games/sports/soccer.html

July

NAIDOC Week 2006: Respect the Past – Believe in the Future

http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewarticle.asp?NID=10354

August

google

Book Week

Children's Book Week 2006
Theme: Book Now! Date: 19th - 25th August

Children's Book Council of Australia
http://www.cbc.org.au/default.htm

Lists of "Books of the Year" for the various categories.
http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/bookweek/

Activities

Quick Links from http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/bookweek/

Comprehensive list of "Authors and Illustrators" and their birthdays with some information about them.

About the Short-listed Authors and Illustrators here.
http://www.eatohillss.eq.edu.au/Library/BookWeek/bookweek2006.htm

Book Now - link to my themes on Adventure Park
See "Post Cards"

Edna - lots of links to sites to help Teachers with Book Week 2006
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616

ALIA - A fantastic list of activities for Book Week - at various levels- and with each of the books>
http://alia.org.au/groups/cysnsw/book.week/2006/

This site, created by Ann Smith, the Teacher Librarian at St.Peter Chanel Primary School, Regents Park in Sydney, Australia, gives some ideas for activities.
http://spc.regentspark.syd.catholic.edu.au/library/bk06a/book1_now_index.htm

An excellent list of activities

A number are in the excellent PDF format.
http://lvillage.education.vic.gov.au

September

October

November

December

Holiday Graphics

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