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Read-Alouds for the Holidays and Winter

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
These five titles will inspire creativity, research, and reflection in your classroom.
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Color the Turkey!

For Students 2nd - 4th
Celebrate the season! Your elementary Spanish learners will love coloring in this turkey prior to Thanksgiving Day. Each part of the turkey has a designated color, but learners must match up the number associated with each part with its...
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Decorated Primary Writing Paper

For Teachers K - 5th
Spark inspiration with some special stationery. The featured page here comes with a clip art image of a candy cane and colorful wide lines made for young writers. See the materials tab for additional designs. Most of the pages in this...
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Deck the Halls with Literature Trees

For Teachers K - 12th
Reinforce and assess reading comprehension by having your class make a literature tree! After reading a book, pupils make decorations to represent the book's themes, characters, and setting. Materials for decorating can be as diverse and...
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Weave a Wreath

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars employ simple measuring and weaving techniques. Then they experiment with the negative and positive space of a cutout. Students also follow directions to complete a multi-step process that results in an attractive holiday...
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Russian Star Ornaments

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students research Russian Orthodox Christmas traditions in pre-soviet Russia and in other parts of the world. Then they create a handcrafted ornament in the style of old Russia. Students also decorate their Russian Star Ornament with...
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Dreidel Card Holder

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars identify and interpret the historic background of the Jewish holiday Chanukah. Then they recognize a traditional game associated with Chanukah. Students also create a Chanukah card holder showing one of the four Hebrew...
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School for Santas

For Students 6th - 8th
Being able to read and recall is a very important skill. Why not have learners read about an American holiday phenomenon? They'll answer who, what, when, where, why, and how with regard to a New York Times article about a school for...
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Stories! Imagination! Joy!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Rekindle the art of storytelling through imagination and oral tradition.
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Es Rudolph!

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
Your young Spanish speakers will love coloring Rudolph during wintertime! Consider reading them Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or teaching them the famous song in Spanish! It's a day they're sure to remember. 
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Halloween Division Practice

For Students 4th - 5th
Boo! Young mathematicians divide one-digit numbers into four-digit numbers with no remainder in a Halloween-themed worksheet.
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The School Holiday Calendar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Various Muslim holidays and their meanings are researched and your students will predict whether or not they should be recognized on the New York City school calendar.  An extension could be to write a letter to the Mayor about their...
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Re-Name That Tune: A Vocabulary Activity

For Teachers K - 12th
Students build vocabulary skills by rewriting the names of some popular holiday songs, and create a fun "Holiday Tune" bulletin board display.
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Happy Holidays from a Class Full of Angels

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create a bulletin board of photos of themselves that are superimposed to form the outline of an angel. They use the angels to create special greeting cards for parents and guardians.
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Picture Yourself in an Ornament

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create an ornament with their photo inside of it. To create the personal memento, students observe demonstrations and follow directions. Students experience making a craft and giving the memento to a family member.
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Christmas Word Problems

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Here's a little holiday-oriented math review/challenge. Three-up on a single sheet for copying, each set consists of five problems that range from three- and four-digit subtraction to multiplication and division to four and five. Typo...
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Peek-Inside Egg

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research information about Easter celebrations in several cultures and identify symbols of the holiday. They find out about famous egg-decorating eggs from countries that have a tradition of egg artistry. Studnets create theri...
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Holiday Handprint Banner

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create gifts for family member. After painting a background, students create foam figure stamps and press impressions of them onto the paper, creating a design. They paint their hand a contrasting color and then press the palm...
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Create a Holiday for Your Favorite Hero

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a holiday for a hero. The person may be someone in history who is not currently honored with a holiday, another famous person, a family member, a friend, or someone else they admire.
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Create a Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create their own holidays, describing them in booklet form. They develop the holiday's name, symbol, colors, food, and historical significance.
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Decorative Gift Boxes

For Teachers K - 8th
Students use different materials to decorate boxes for gifts. They use a variety of boxes of their own choosing to decorate.
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Giving Thanks to Mother Earth

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners create an art project to be made into a laminated placemat to use during a classroom Thanksgiving feast. The lesson involves choosing at least three cutouts of elements of nature to glue onto a background page, drawing one...
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Two-Digit by Two-Digit Multiplication [H]

For Students 3rd - 4th
Here is a multiplication worksheet in which learners solve a total of 42 problems; all problems multiply one two-digit number by another.
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Two-Digit by Two-Digit Multiplication [J]

For Students 3rd - 4th
Learnerssolve a total of 42 problems; all problems multiply one two-digit number by another.