Celebrate,
celebrate,
Ring in the new year.
Celebrate, celebrate,
Good friends and good cheer.
Celebrate, celebrate,
We're really glad that you're here.
Celebrate, celebrate ...
It's two thousand and six!
2006, a brand new year,
Filled with promise, filled with cheer.
A time to love,
A time to share,
A time to show our friends we care.
2006, our year to shine.
Happy Happy New Year time!
The year starts with
January.
The next month is February.
Then March, April, May and June,
The year is half through.
July, August, and September,
October and then November.
The last month is December.
Happy New Year to you!
A
Brand New Year
Tune: You're A Grand Old Flag
Mailbox Magazine ~ shared by Andrea on KK Listserv
It's a brand new year,
So let's give a big cheer!
Blow the horn, beat the drum loud and clear.
Oh the year's brand new,
With new things to do,
New things we will learn all the year.
It's a brand new year,
Goodbye old year,
The new year's here.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot ...
Say hello to a brand new year
New Year's Day
Tune: Jingle Bells
Author Unknown
New Year's Day, New Year's Day
Comes but once a year.
On New Year's Eve we celebrate
And ring it in with cheer!
New Year's Day, New Year's Day
Comes but once a year.
On New Year's Eve we celebrate
And ring it in with cheer!
Brainstorm words that
rhyme with "new," write them on paper, and place in the pocket
chart (you can also use Post-It® notes and place them on the
wall). When you have a dozen or so words, divide them into
groups based on how the "oo" sound is spelled: "ew" -- "ue"
-- "oo" -- "ou" -- "ough"
Do the same activity on
a different day, using words that rhyme with "year" --
possible endings are "ear" -- "ere" -- "e're" (we're). If
your students are advanced enough, contrast the "ear" in the
words "year" and "bear." Can you think of any other words
to go into these two categories?
Write New Year's
resolutions ~ click
here for a place to share your
students' resolutions online and to read what other kids have
resolved for 2006
Making Lists -- Writing
Directions -- Sequencing: Plan a New Year's party.
Where will we have the party? How long will it last?
Who should we invite?
What will we eat and drink?
Will we have music? Dancing? Games? Prizes?
What do we need to buy, and how much will it cost? What
should we do first, second, etc.?
Make party invitations
Discuss the phrase "out
with the old and in with the new." Students can write and
illustrate pages (using a writing frame, if desired) to be bound
into a class book.
Warm
New Year's Wishes
Discuss the
phrase "warm wishes" and brainstorm a list of warm wishes for
our friends. Have each child draw a picture to illustrate
this completed sentence: "My warm New Year's wish for my
friend is ___________." Create a class book: options
include having the children decorate paper mittens and gluing
the mittens onto a page so that the mittens are "holding" the
illustration, decorating the cover with mittens, or making the
entire book mitten-shaped. Use your imagination to make
your book special.
Twinkle, twinkle, New Year’s star,
Shining bright and shining far.
New Year’s wishes sent to you
Maybe will some day come true.
Twinkle, twinkle, star so bright.
Shine on us throughout the night.
Create and
illustrate a class book of your student's New Year's wishes.
Two must-have resource books for
early primary grade classrooms.
Both books feature a thematic song/poem for each month of the year
in ready-to-use formats, including: poetry page masters,
reproducible emergent readers, pocket chart illustrations, and more.
Full details for each book can be found by clicking on the
"click here for details" links.
Guessing Jar: fill
with black eyed peas, small "champagne bottle" party poppers,
jelly beans
Patterning: make
patterns with rubber stamps or stickers on construction paper
strips, then turn them into headbands, hats, or bulletin board
borders
Patterning & Matching:
using fancy paper plates, party hats, colored plastic silverware
How
Many Is 2006?
Have individual children
or pairs create ten sets of ten identical objects (unifix cubes,
pattern blocks, Legos®, etc.) to create sets of 100 items.
Assemble twenty sets of 100 items, plus six more, and mount or
display in a way that the entire set can be seen.
Have individual children
glue one dried bean (or dried cereal, sticker, thumbprint, etc.)
into each space on a 100 chart or 10 x 10 grid. Assemble
20 grids, plus six extra items placed in one row, and mount on
wall.
Have
A New Year's Countdown
Classroom Celebration
Contributed by
Alicia Jenne´
~ Tuscaloosa, AL
During the
holidays, we collect and save bubble wrap. We have one
small piece for each of our 92 first graders. The pieces are about
4" x 5". I don't think the actual size matters.
The children make
flat New Year's hats, and we staple these to
sentence strips made into headbands that they wear on their heads.
We collect party blowers and have
one for each child (these are
usually on sale for pennies on or after January 1st).
We give each
child a clear plastic cup with 12 seedless grapes inside. We read somewhere that in Spanish-speaking countries the
children eat grapes and make wishes for the new year. I don't remember where we read it but it is a great alternative to
toasting with grape juice. I just have a problem glorifying drinking
with young children, but I do not mind the grape thing!
One of our team members has a
home video of the New Year's fireworks at Disneyland/Disney World.
We have this video ready on the TV.
All the first grade children assemble in the science lab at our school.
Each child is wearing his/her hat and "2006" eyeglasses (from Oriental
Trading Company), and they're all holding their party
blowers, their cups with 12 grapes, and their bubble wrap.
We count down
from ten, and when we get to zero the children yell HAPPY NEW YEAR!, blow their blowers,
and twist the bubble wrap -- and it sounds
like fireworks going off. At the same time, -- right when we get to zero
-- we show the Disneyland fireworks home video.
After the
hullabaloo has died down, we
review the months of the year in order. Each child holds one grape and
makes a wish for that month. We ask if anyone would like to share
their wish out loud: someone always has a wish to share with the
group. Usually for January (here in Alabama) it is a wish that we
would get to see snow (not likely!). The children make their wishes
for the month and
eat that month's grape. We do this for all 12 months.
That is our New
Year's Party. It is always a great hit and the kids
love it. If you have a school supply store at your school or
nearby, ask them
to save the bubble wrap that the items come packed in. We have no
problem getting it without purchasing it.
Hope this helps some of you! It is really fun!
Happy New Year!
Let's make 2006 great for children!
Alicia Jenne´
Tuscaloosa, AL
Make New Year's crowns or headbands (see
patterning activity in math section)
Make fancy glasses with "2006" made from die
cuts
Make and decorate party hats
Make noisemakers/shakers from cardboard tubes
or folded paper plates with dried beans or bells inside.
Decorate with paint, tissue paper, glitter, glue, ribbon
streamers, stickers, jewels, etc.
Make a New Year's mobile to hang from the
ceiling
Make posters or greeting cards to celebrate
the new year
Make/decorate calendars and review the months
of the year, days of the week, seasons, etc., depending upon
student ability
Dance the Month-A-Rena ~ while
reciting/singing the months of the year, do the Macarena
motions, then wiggle, turn, jump, say "Month-A-Rena!" and do it
all again
Using a new 12 month calendar, write each
student's birthday on the correct date of the new year, then
graph how many birthdays are in each month. To make a
larger, more complex graph, combine your results with another
class or with the entire grade level.
The Dalai Lama's Words Of Advice
For The Year 2000
1. Take into account
that great love and great achievements involve great
risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for
others
responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes
a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them
properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take
immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your
values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older
and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second
time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation
for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the
current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve
immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which
your love for each other exceeds your need for each
other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in
order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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