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Christmas Around the World
Students 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition lesson students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions around the world....
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Christmas at Mud Flat Lesson Plan
Students analyze the characters in the book Christmas at Mud Flat. In this early childhood lesson plan, students analyze characters in the book, then choose which character they personally identify with the most. Students then use...
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Christmas Potpourri Hangers
Students create a potpourri hanger. In this Christmas craft instructional activity, students reuse materials to make a Christmas potpourri hangar for the tree or for a gift.
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Fun Christmas Alphabetical Order
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students study the words associated with Christmas. Students order the words alphabetically. Students order 9 words.
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Christmas Acrostic Poem
In this acrostic poem instructional activity, students write an acrostic poem about Christmas. Students begin each line with a word or sentence that starts with the letter on that line.
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Christmas Gifts Word Jumble
In this word jumble activity, learners unscramble the letters to spell words associated with Christmas gifts. Students spell 20 words.
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Hand And Foot Print Reindeer
Learners create reindeer out of paper cut-outs of their own hands and feet in this fun and quick Art activity for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson plan may be accomplished as an individual or small group (partner) project.
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Christmas Around the World
Young scholars demonstrate an understanding of how different cultures celebrate Christmas by participating in artistic, musical, culinary and role play activities.
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Holiday: Christmas Games and Crafts
Students access a variety of Christmas themed websites. They play online games and send e-mail letters to Santa. They complete word searches and read Christmas stories.
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The Miracle of the First Poinsettia
Connecting to literature and learning how to infer are two great reading strategies everyone needs to know. Here, the class will read along with the story The Miracle of the First Poinsettia, review folktales as a genre, and make...
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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Holiday Poetry and Music
Students discuss Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and family traditions. After brainstorming how holidays are celebrated, students write a poem about a chosen holiday and create their own hand-made instrument. They share their poems...
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Santa Countdown Calendar
Learners draw Santa's face on white paper, add color construction paper for his hat, and use the beard section for a "countdown calender" until the end of the month in this creative December activity. Each day another cotton ball is...
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Christmas Syllables
In this Christmas words worksheet, learners combine the first syllable with the second syllable to make words related to Christmas. Students make 16 words.
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Christmas Verbs
In this Christmas verbs worksheet, students study the two Christmas pictures and write verbs around the pictures to tell what action is happening.
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Print-Making Card Designs
Students explore print making. In this art and print making lesson, students listen to biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci, then define "mirror image" as a technique used by this artist. Students cut out magazine pictures...
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Drawing an Angel
In this Christmas vocabulary activity, students read each sentence that begins with "This is.." Students draw a picture that illustrates each sentence. The sentences are each on a separate page, written inside a Christmas ornament...
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Jan Brett Author Study
Expose young children to the wonderful works of author and illustrator Jan Brett using a few of her stories such as Armadillo Rodeo, The Mitten, or Daisy Comes Home through a unit study.
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An Adverb Can Tell When
First, suddenly, always. Adverbs that provide additional information about when an action occurred are the focus of this one-page learning exercise.
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A Polar Express Word Search
All aboard The Polar Express! Use a word search to bring the magic of Chris Van Allsburg's sweet holiday story to your classroom. It features a picture from the book, as well as words and items from the story.
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Wild Christmas Reindeer
Students listen to the children's story "The Wild Christmas Reindeer" while using the pictures from the story to help analyze the plot. In this reading comprehension lesson, students discuss the text and pictures of a story as they read....
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Naughty or Nice?
Students practice computer skills by generating Christmas lists and communicating with Santa using the Internet.
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Creating and Preserving a Tradition
Students explore folk art and tradition. They work in small groups and produce an essay about folk art or traditions practiced in their community. Students discuss the creation and preservation of a tradition. They discuss various...
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A Letter to Santa
In this letter to Santa worksheet, students read the letter, answer multiple choice questions, put sentences in order, tick things mentioned in the letter, and more. Students complete 5 activities total.