Kick off the school year by reading a new book, developing literacy, celebrating world peace and welcoming autumn this September. This month we have collected a wide range of lesson plans and diagram examples shared by teachers on our Inspired Learning Community. We hope that this list gives you some teaching inspiration this month while adjusting from summer vacation. Welcome back to school!
9/1 Read-A-New-Book Month and Better Breakfast Month
- Celebrate Read-A-New-Book Month with a lesson in Inspiration on questions to ask before, during and after reading.
- Start your students off to a healthy beginning by celebrating Better Breakfast Month with an InspireData survey on sleep and breakfast.
9/3 Skyscraper Day
- Teach your students mathematical problems with a tower-building story problem on September 3rd in honor of Skyscraper Day.
9/6 Read-A-Book Day
- September 6th is Read-A-Book Day, which makes it a great time to teach your students the difference between fiction and non-fiction using Kidspiration.
- Encourage students to tell family and friends about new books to read on Read-A-Book Day September 6th with a lesson in Kidspiration.
9/8 Literacy Day
- Develop student media literacy on International Literacy Day September 8th with an Inspiration lesson.
9/9 Teddy Bear Day
- Enjoy Teddy Bear Day September 9th with a comparing sizes lesson in Kidspiration based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
9/10 Swap Ideas Day
- Teach a unit on investigation in Inspiration for Swap Ideas Day September 10th.
9/16 Mayflower Day and Collect Rocks Day
- Prepare for Thanksgiving by teaching vocabulary words in Kidspiration on Mayflower Day September 16th.
- Help your students understand different types of rocks in Inspiration on Collect Rocks Day September 16th.
9/17 Constitution Day
- Introduce the U.S. Constitution to your students in Inspiration on Constitution Day September 17th.
- Summarize the basics of the U.S. Constitution with a concept map in Inspiration on September 17th’s Constitution Day.
9/20 National Flower Week
- Learn the parts of a plant in Kidspiration in honor of National Flower Week the 3rd week in September.
9/21 World Peace Day
- Teach the words of Zedong, Castro and Gandhi using Inspiration on World Peace Day September 21st.
- Test your students on what they learned about Gandhi with a quiz in Inspiration on World Peace Day September 21st.
9/22 First Day of Autumn
- Welcome the First Day of Autumn September 22nd with a scarecrow activity, a five little pumpkins diagram and an autumn poem in Kidspiration.
- Create a vacation postcard in Kidspiration September 22nd in honor of the opening of the first U.S. Post Office.
9/24 Native American Day and National Punctuation Day
- Teach your students about the Native American sacred circles using Kidspiration on Native American Day September 24th.
- Practice making sentences in Kidspiration or the steps of writing in Inspiration on National Punctuation Day this September 24th.
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