Labor Day Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterSeptember 1, 2008


History

Today is Labor Day! Learn more about it with this fun scavenger hunt: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt044.shtml


Reading

Read more about Labor Day here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question459.htm

Then answer the questions below:

1.What is Labor Day?
2. How long has it been celebrated?
3. Who created the first Labor Days?
4. When was the first Labor Day parade?
5. Which President made Labor Day a national holiday?

Vocabulary

See if you can find these Labor Day words: http://homeschooling.about.com/library/laborword.pdf



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