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New Picture Books to Complement Your Curriculum
These picture books are for primary learners and older students alike.
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Messy Bessey's Holidays
Teach your class some fairly complex terms—factors of production, human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and intermediate goods—with a storybook (Messy Bessey's Holidays), plenty of visuals and handouts, and related...
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Read-Alouds for the Holidays and Winter
These five titles will inspire creativity, research, and reflection in your classroom.
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Holidays Around the World
Let's focus on a holiday from around the world! Young researchers choose a holiday from somewhere around the world, and conduct research to answer questions about the holiday. It can be used anytime during the year!
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Family Traditions
Honor family traditions with a lesson that examines the variety of winter celebrations. Class members discuss their family's traditions then complete a cut-and-paste practice page in which they match a picture to the name of a holiday....
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Winter Holiday Celebrations
Students understand how holidays revolve all around light. In this winter holidays instructional activity, students find the similarities and differences between the winter holidays. Students discuss the winter solstice and how it...
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Ruby Bridges
A two-part lesson features Civil Rights hero, Ruby Bridges. Part one focuses on the heroic actions of Ruby Bridges then challenges scholars to complete a Venn diagram in order to compare themselves to her. Part two begins with a...
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4th of July Picture Matching Worksheet
In this 4th of July picture matching worksheet, students draw lines to match 6 pictures to their identical copies in another column.
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Easter Picture Matching Worksheet
In this Easter picture activity worksheet, students draw lines from the 6 Easter-related pictures one the left side of the page to their matching pictures on the right.
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Easter Picture Matching Worksheet
In this Easter picture matching worksheet, students look closely at the 6 pictures in two columns, then draw a line to match the one on the left with the one on the right.
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Christmas Picture Matching
For this Christmas worksheet, students draw a line from the left side of the page to the right side of the page matching Christmas pictures.
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Wonderful Words for Writing!
Twenty slides make up a set of festive, May-themed writing prompts designed to grab scholars' attention and warm-up their writing skills. Prompts include story starters, holidays, research questions, the five senses, and more!
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Red, White, and Blue Holidays Timeline
Fifth graders create a time line listing six national holidays in chronological order of occurrence. In this historical events lesson, 5th graders research holidays and write a paragraph summarizing each one. They then place each holiday...
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Christmas Word to Picture Matching
In this Christmas word/picture learning exercise, learners draw a line from the seven Christmas words listed on the left to the matching Christmas picture on the right side of the learning exercise.
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Mother's Day Cards to Print
Eight printable cards celebrate Mom on Mother's Day. Pages come with pictures to color, space to write, and a special spot for scholars to sign their name.
Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas
Snowman Snowman
What do snowmen eat? Or smell? Read about the senses of a snowman with a cute picture book. Kindergartners cut or fold the pages to create a story about a snowman and what he sees, smells, hears, eats, and feels.
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A Gift to Give
Students investigate the holiday Kwanzaa by drawing pictures. In this cultural tradition instructional activity, students discuss the history and actions that take place during the holiday of Kwanzaa. Students draw a picture of a gift...
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Flag Day Draw and Write
In this Flag Day worksheet, learners draw a picture pertaining to the American flag. Students write an essay or story about the picture.
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Pumpkin Carving for K-2 Students
Students carve pumpkins, draw pictures and label layers of a seed, and write steps needed to carve pumpkin.
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Sandpaper Drawings
In this artistic worksheet, students gather together black sand paper with crayons/chalk and then draw a picture on the sandpaper to create a winter scene or a nativity scene.
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Multicultural Holidays Through Student Artwork
An ESL class writes a description of an aspect of a holiday from another country. They illustrate their description and present their finished work product to their classmates.
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Happy Holidays from a Class Full of Angels
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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Graphing Favorite Holidays
Students create spreadsheets and bar graphs based on results of survey of favorite holidays.
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Easter Word to Picture Matching
In this Easter word and picture activity worksheet, students draw lines from the 6 Easter-related words to their matching pictures.