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     Welcome the new year with these FOUR SETS of trivia questions about people, places, animals, and things that have distinguished themselves by being the first, largest, oldest, or fastest of their kind. The questions range across the curriculum, but special focus is on social studies and science.
Each activity set has 20 items. There are nine total pages, including full answer keys.

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This two-part activity is a study of English words with tricky spellings, such as February and bouquet. The first set of thirty-three items focuses on everyday words that baffle us with their unusual letter combinations. The second portion, also with thirty-three items, features words that offer challenges with both their spellings and their less familiar definitions.

A resource list of 150+ more words with quirky spellings is included for those teachers who want to create another round or two of activities based on this idea.

These activities come with full answer keys.

This February Activity package begins with three sets of trivia questions, entitled HAIL TO THE CHIEF, about the American Presidency. Each two-page activity has 20 items. Internet research is the best resource for finding correct answers. Next, for Valentine’s Day, there is STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART, a series of fill-in-the-blank statements structured around phrases that contain the word “heart.” There are 30 items in this activity. The full February set is 8 pages, including answer keys.

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February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson. Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it. Students are challenged to interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains the history behind our language's large collection of idiomatic expressions that erroneously attribute human emotions and personality traits to the heart.

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February Figuratively Speaking is a 13 page activity organized in three parts with 25 items each.

February's jam-packed list of special occasions forms the basis for the original sentences, famous people quotes, and literature passages that illustrate the use of similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeias. Multiple choice questions challenge students to identify and interpret the featured figures of speech. Great test practice as well as seasonal fun.

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From Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the literary world offers a variety of couples whose stories mirror the romantic ups and downs of the real world.

This I Have. . Who Has. . . game features 28 couples on 28 playing cards. Some, like Mickey and Minnie, live in the land of cartoons. Others are imaginative renditions of people with strange quirks, including the likes of Herman and Lily Munster. Romeo and Juliet are among the choice few who earn a special place in our hearts as timeless examples of true love. This selection of love-struck characters will have particular appeal to middle school students (5th-8th), who are in the process of discovering the joys and pitfalls of romantic love. Use this game to give their Valentine’s Day a little extra luster, even if it is based in fiction. They will be right at home!

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Who among us, student and teacher alike, has not stepped over an unpleasant task and assigned it to an undetermined future date? For a select group, piddling around is standard procedure. Procrastination, it seems, is pretty much one of the common denominators of human behavior. So why would we be surprised that the second week in March is designated as NATIONAL PROCRASTINATION WEEK--that is, unless it gets put off until sometime later.

This free download, entitled BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, acknowledges Procrastination Week's existence and then delves into vocabulary with the letters L-A-T-E hidden in their spellings. Students are instructed to use the given definitions and clues to fill in missing letters and unmask 35 different "late" words. Some of the terms will be familiar, but others will be more difficult to identify, if and when your students get around to them.

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Treat your students to March Connections, a three-page collection of mental calisthenics requiring the identification of specific words that will connect three, seemingly unrelated words--Leprechaun's, star, and medal, for instance. With a short brain workout, the word GOLD will come to mind--Leprechaun's gold, gold star, and gold medal. The forty items are related to March events or March weather.  Full answer keys are included.

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Leprechauns are the cornerstone of this set of thirty-six researchable trivial questions about some of the world's smallest places and things. The items are cross-curricular, each one presenting an opportunity for students to sharpen their internet research skills.

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An accompanying graphic organizer, Jackpot of Gold, is an updated approach to the age-old question about what one would do if confronted with sudden wealth.

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