Kick Off The New Year With The August PebbleGo & PebbleGo Monthly Holiday Calendar! Turn It Into An Interactive Research Choice Board For Your Students & Teachers!

It's time for a new school year and time for a NEW year of the amazing PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Monthly Holiday Calendars that our friends at Capstone create for us each month. 

In this post, I share more about the PebbleGo Monthly Calendars. 

I love making paper copies of these to share with our teachers and kids. 

They hang them up in their classrooms and hang them in our library too. I also share them online through social media and as an image in Google Classroom or Seesaw. 

The teachers even use the PebbleGo Calendars for mini research opportunities throughout each week. The students use PebbleGo Create to share what they learn throughout the month with the calendars. 

Here is the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next August 2024 Holidays Calendar. 

Last year, when I was sharing the calendars with teachers and students, I thought....Hey, this would be really fun in a choice board! 

So, I opened up a Google Slide, uploaded the PebbleGo August 2024 Holidays Calendar, and added a little chalk board with text over the top.  

Then I went through the calendar and found every special day in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next.  

For example, World Wide Web Day is August 1, so they have the What is the internet? PebbleGo article featured. I went to PebbleGo and found the article about What is the Internet?

 I grabbed the link, as shown in the image above. 

I took that link and added a linked text box around each special date. 

Now, when the kids click on a holiday, it will take them directly to that PebbleGo article.  

If you want to use the template to create your own, you will find the Google Slide here to make a copy and add links to the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles. 

And to make it a choice board, just Publish to the web, as shown in this image above. 

You will share that Published Link with your students.  

I love sharing these interactive PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars with our students and teachers. They love learning all about these special days that are highlighted each month too.

I am excited to have the August 2024 PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next ready to go as we go back to school the end of the month. I hope you will find ways to use it with your students and teachers this month, and all throughout the school year too.