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Giving with Imagination
Demonstrate gift giving as an act of caring about someone versus gifts for show (or gifts from the purse). Elementary learners practice giving gifts from the heart by creating a poem for someone special to them.
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Curled-Paper Winter Holiday Cards
Pupils research a winter holiday and create unique holiday greeting cards. After learning about their chosen holiday, they use the paper-folding technique called quilling to make one-of-a-kind cards.
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Christmas Modifiers: Change the Adjective to an Adverb
Incorporate a grammar lesson into your winter holidays celebration by asking class members to change the adjectives in sentences into adverbs. You'll be amazed how quickly learners catch on.
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Books for Teaching about Cultural Diversity Through Celebrations
Learn about different holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, La Posada, by listening to stories. After reading about each holiday, they participate in a discussion and complete a fun activity.
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Blue and White Pictures
Students study a Hanukkah tradition. In this Hanukkah lesson plan, students use light blue and white construction paper to create Hanukkah pictures.
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Stories! Imagination! Joy!
Rekindle the art of storytelling through imagination and oral tradition.
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Dreidel
In this dreidel instructional activity, learners use each letter in the word dreidel to represent a verb or phrase. Students create 7 verbs or phrases in this verb chart.
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Find the Hanukah Words
In this Hanukah terminology worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight six key holiday Hanukkah terms in a holiday word search puzzle.
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Which Comes First?
In this Hanukkah activity worksheet, students read the words that relate to Hanukkah. Students write the words that comes first on the line for the 15 words.
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HANUKAH WORD SEARCH
In this Hanukah word search, students are given ten words to locate in a word puzzle which is shaped like a menorah. An answer key is provided.
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Color the Chanukah Gift
In this Chanukah coloring worksheet, students color music notes according to the given key to make a picture of a present. Students color in 15 different notes.
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Family Traditions
Honor family traditions with a instructional activity 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...
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Alliterations
In this alliteration worksheet, students read alliterative phrases and underline the alliteration they see. Students also complete alliteration phrases.
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Celebra Kwanzaa
¡Celebramos Kwanzaa! Celebrate Kwanzaa through the fictional story Celebra Kwanzaa con Botitas y sus gatitos to delightfully explain the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Dual language learners participate in reading and vocabulary...
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Winter Celebrations Coloring Sheet
For this winter celebrations coloring worksheet, students color the picture of a winter scene and then respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Waking Up, Stepping Out
Students focus on a rich and colorful description of a culture unfamiliar to most of them. They compare the similarities and differences they find between Nepali culture and their own and determine our similarities as people can bridge...
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Alex Schlotsky: "Full Court Miracle"
Learners view a film about a young man on a basketball team who is tired of being called a loser. They examine Jewish traditions as the young man in the film relates to his hertitage. They also examine the holiday of Chanukah.
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December Holidays Antonyms and Synonyms Worksheet
In this holidays worksheet, students write antonyms and synonyms for common holiday vocabulary words. Students write antonyms and synonyms for 15 words.
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December Holidays Multiple Choice Definitions Worksheet
In this holidays worksheet, students choose the correct definition for the holiday term provided to them. Students complete 15 multiple choice questions.
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December Holidays Sentence Worksheet
In this holiday vocabulary worksheet, students put holiday vocabulary words into sentences. Students put 15 words into sentences.
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Using Abbreviations for Months of the Year
In this abbreviation for the months of the year activity, students review correct abbreviations, then write the month of the year and its abbreviation indicated by a statement about that month.
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Dreidel Play
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read the 11 clues that relate to a dreidel. Students then use the word box to help them complete the crossword puzzle.
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Kwanzaa in the Classroom
You can teach your students about Kwanzaa using these interesting lessons.
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Holiday Activities for Everyone
There are ways to include all students, even those who don't celebrate holidays, in activities during the holiday season.