November provides so many opportunities to use Wixie to engage students in learning. While Thanksgiving is always a crowd favorite, use these ideas to celebrate other November holidays and inspire creative writing and project work in your classroom.

November is Picture Book Month. Use the templates in the Language Arts > Story Adaptations folder to have students adapt their favorite stories. Combining multimedia and online forms of writing can help learners connect with content in relevant, authentic, and meaningful ways. 

To tie into Thanksgiving, use a sentence starter like, "The perfect balloon for next year's parade is ________________," after reading Melissa Sweet's Balloons Over Broadway story about Tony Sarg.

You can also use Picture Book Month celebrations to encourage your budding writers to author and illustrate their own picture books from scratch. Students can use the text, paint, stickers, and background images to craft their masterpieces. Students can even record voice or video for even more self-expression.

Student writing needs a real-world audience. Use Wixie’s print options to print a 4-page project as a booklet students can fold, read, and share. You can also embed student stories on your classroom or school website, email parents a direct link with Family Sharing, or export student work as a PDF or even as a movie!

National STEM Day takes place on November 8th. Celebrate by asking students to:

Then, on November 15th, celebrate America Recycles Day. Search “recycle” on your homepage to find a collection of templates to get students thinking about recycling.

Have students support the healthy lifestyles promoted by the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout, which occurs on the third Thursday of every November by encouraging students to create their own health PSAs.

You can also take an open-ended approach and ask students to use a design process to solve a STEM-focused problem. 

For additional ideas, explore the Wixie STEM guide.

It’s easy to engage students in geography with Wixie during Geography Awareness Week. Show off your students’ skills by using Wixie to showcase the geographic features, regions, and economy of a state or region. Browse the Social Studies > Geography folder to find the perfect template to get started.

For example, assign the By My House template to help young learners identify things in each direction around their home. Students can use Wixie’s paint tools to create a map.

In the Geographic Regions template, students create a real estate sign that describes and extols the virtues of a specific geographic region to demonstrate their understanding.

To help students better understand the unique features of a state or country, search for “persuasive” to find a template to guide students as they develop materials to attract visitors to a location at a virtual tourism trade show.

Looking for more geography ideas? Browse the geography ideas in the Curriculum Activities library. 

World Kindness Day, on November 13, is a great opportunity to promote kindness in your classroom. Celebrate and encourage kindness with Wixie by:

You can also assign the Kindness Choice Board to give students voice and choice in how they want to share kindness with others, themselves, and the world. 

No matter what holiday or curriculum your students are working with, using creative tools like Wixie helps motivate and engage students in their learning. 

As always, we’d love to see the projects you create!