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Football, Thanksgiving,
Election Day, Veterans Day.... just a few of the many events
in the month of November. Submit
ideas for November & share it with others. |
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- Special
Events Days
- Facts
- Birthdays
- Poem
- Activities
Special Event
Days
- 1st Saturday after November
11 is Sadie Hawkins Day
- 4th Thursday- Thanksgiving Day
- 4th week- National Family Week
- Week after Thanksgiving- National
Home Care Week
- National Alzheimer's Disease
Month
- National Diabetes Month
- Children's Book Week
- 4- Will Rogers Day in Colorado
- 11- Veterans Day
- 11- Armistice Day in France
and Great Britain
- 11- Remembrance Day in Canada
- 15- Shichi go San (Seven Five
Three) for boys 3 or 5 & girls 3 or 7 yrs in Japan
- 12- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day
(Equal rights for women)
- 21- World Hello Day
- 30- St. Andrew's Day
- Birthstone- Topaz
- Flower- Chrysanthemum
- 2- North Dakota became 39th
state in 1889
- 2- South Dakota became 40th
state in 1889
- 2- 1st regular radio broadcast
began over station KDKA in Pittsburgh, 1920
- 6- 1st college football game
took place between Rutgers & Princeton in 1869
- 11- Armistice signed ending
World War I in 1918
- 16- Oklahoma became the 46th
state in 1907
- 17- Suez Canal opened in 1869
- 19- Abraham Lincoln delivered
the Gettysburg Address in 1863
- 22- President John F. Kennedy
was assassinated in 1963
- 2- Daniel Boone, 1734
- 3- Stephen Austin, 1793
- 4- Will Rogers, 1879
- 6- John Philip Sousa, 1854
- 7- Marie Curie, 1867
- 15- Aaron Copeland, 1900
- 19- James A. Garfield, 20th
President, 1831
- 19- Indira Gandhi, 1917
- 25- Joe DiMaggio, 1914
- 30- Mark Twain, 1835
November Poem (why don't
you submit a poem?)
"November's sky is chill and drear
November's leaf is red and sear."
Sir Walter Scott
POETRY
READING
Submitted by Kara Stauffacher of Attic Angel Health
Center on Thursday, November 25, 1999
At our nursing
home we did some Thanksgiving poetry reading, along with using the
word "THANKS" and each letter to begin the
line of the poem. The residents were very creative
and wrote a cute poem of THANKS!
Thank you for all my hands
can hold-
Apples red and melons gold,
Yello corn both ripe and sweet,
peans and beans so good to eat!
Thank you for all my eyes
can see-
Lovely sunlight,
field and tree,
White cloud-boats in sea-deep sky,
Soaring bird and butterfly.
Thank you for all my ears
can hear-
Birds' song echoing far and near,
Songs of little stream, big sea,
Cricket, bullfrog, duck and bee!
Written by -Ivy O. Eastwick
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Boo!!
Guess Who?
submitted by
Berni Adamson of Job Haines Home on Wednesday, September
19, 2001
Equipment: camera,
film, Halloween masks, posterboard, masking tape
Description: Take
photographs of residents and staff wearing Halloween masks.
Using masking tape, display photographs on posterboard.
See how many residents and staff can be identified.
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SADIE
HAWKINS DAY PARTY (1st Saturday after November 11)
Invite staff, residents,
and guests to dress-up "country" with bib-overalls,
straw hats, cowboy boots, straws in their mouth, etc.
Play country or bluegrass music. Organize a square dance.
Invite local square dancing clubs to conduct a dance at
your facility. Teach wheelchair square, circle and/or
line dancing. Serve apple cider and apple dumplings |
Turkey Treats
Melissa Cline, CTRS of Morton Plant
Mease Rehab on September 22, 1999
Size: any size
Equipment: Rice Krispy Treats
ingredients, Oreo Cookies, Candy Corn, Mini Chocolate Chips,
Chocolate Icing
Objective: To ensure group
socialization, enhance gross and fine motor skills and to follow
directions.
Description: Have residents
assist you in making rice krispy treats. While the treats are
on the stove, have the residents untwist Oreo cookies. When
the treats are finished, have the residents shape them into
small balls, about the size of a ping pong ball. Cover the top
of the cookie with the white cream, with chocolate icing, which
acts as our "glue", and place treat ball on top. "Glue"
on two mini chocolate chips for the eyes, and a candy corn for
the beak. For the tail, frost the other side of the Oreo and
stick on the back of the treat ball. Place candy corn, small
edge down, between the cookie and treat ball, so the wide end
of the candy appears to be the "fanned" out tail of
the turkey.
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