Here's a fun
creative writing activity for the new year that teaches students about the history and etymology of New Year's Day and has them apply what they've learned to a creative writing activity. This activity is exerpted from
The Complete Teacher's Almanac and kindly posted on
TeacherVision.

We here at EMC would like to say thank you to all of the devoted language arts
teachers out there and wish you a very happy holiday season and new
year! See you in 2015!!