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3 Holiday Projects

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the concept of reusing and recycling everyday materials and make holiday-oriented decorations and gift wrapping. Letters containing environmental issues are composed and sent to political and corporate decision-makers.
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Sentence Completion: "A Holiday to Singapore"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a three paragraph story that has nine missing words. They choose words from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence.
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Adele's ESL Corner: A Holiday to Singapore-Vocabulary Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary activity, students complete a paragraph using words shown at the top of the page. Students may click on a button to hear the audio version.
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Thanksgiving Mural

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a mural of the history of Thanksgiving. In this holiday lesson, students recall the history of Thanksgiving and create a mural of the holiday using large paper and crayons.
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Arthur's Thanksgiving

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners investigate Thanksgiving by reading a children's book.  In this holiday lesson, students read Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown and create a turkey fact book after reading an electronic encyclopedia.  Learners bring...
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A Gift to Give

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils investigate the holiday Kwanzaa by drawing pictures. For this cultural tradition lesson, students discuss the history and actions that take place during the holiday of Kwanzaa. Pupils draw a picture of a gift they would give to a...
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Collage of Kwanzaa Colors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore African cultures by creating a holiday collage. In this Kwanzaa art lesson, students identify the popular colors associated with the African holiday and create a collage using them. Students present their art work for...
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Handprint Angels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars trace their hands onto white paper and cut them out. They create a holiday art piece by adding a "head" and a "body" and then decorating them to resemble an angel. (Their handprints become the wings.)
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Halloween Comic Strips

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a lesson on the subject of creating comic strips. They create facial expressions in drawings for practice and gradually progress to making their own comic strips based on the holiday of Halloween. The...
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HANUKKAH: A Mini-Unit

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students engage in a variety of activities concerning the holiday of Hanukkah. The use of brainstorming important to generate ideas and tap prior knowledge. They move from brainstorming to a choice of other activities.
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Jingle Bells Coloring Page

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this holiday worksheet, students color the jingle-bells and read the song at the top of the page. The sheet could also include writing.
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Valentine Character Mailbox

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners create a valentine mailbox. In this holiday lesson plan, students celebrate Valentine's Day and create a mailbox for valentines.
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Making Christmas Cards

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners construct Christmas cards for loved ones. In this holiday instructional activity, students use various art materials such as construction paper, sequins, buttons, cotton balls, and felt to decorate a Christmas card.
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Making Santas

For Teachers K
Students construct Santas. In this holiday lesson, students demonstrate how to cut with scissors and glue with glue sticks to create their own Santas from paper and felt. Students work on developing their fine motor skills.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the holidays by performing a song with their class.  In this Christmas lesson, 4th graders recite some of their favorite Christmas songs and read the lyrics to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."...
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Classroom Christmas Tree

For Teachers K
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity.  In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree.  Students are given...
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Different Ways We Celebrate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine a variety of ways that families celebrate winter holidays. They complete a graphic organizer comparing Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and write a five-sentence paragraph about one of the holidays discussed. Students...
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Happy Holiday

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students greet individuals in forms that are appropriate for certain relationships, the time of day, and specific holidays and occasions. They discuss the differences in forms of address for age, rank, and greetings, listen to the clues...
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Researching and Writing About Another Country's Holiday: Documenting and Communicating Information

For Teachers 5th
This lesson is a culminating lesson which follows students researching, collecting citations, evaluating and selecting text, graphic materials and visual aids. In this concluding lesson, 5th graders discuss the assessment task and how to...
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Holiday Hints

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this holiday hint worksheet, students learn how to have a pet safe environmentally "green" Christmas by reading 6 tips. The underlined words in the tips are found in a word search puzzle and there is also a coded message.
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Write an Election Day Letter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For some, getting to the polls to vote is no easy task. Voting may mean needing to choose between a job and civic duty. But what if Election Day was a national holiday? After reading an article about the pros and cons of designating...
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A Variety of Christmas Activities

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this Christmas worksheet students complete a variety of holiday activities. Students follow directions to color some bells, put holiday events in order, and make a Rudolph head.
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Giving Can Be Fun!

For Teachers K - 2nd
That it is better to give than receive can be a difficult concept for little ones, especially during the Christmas holiday season. A reading of Jan Brett’s, Christmas Trolls, helps children focus their attention away from what they want...
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Diwali Doorway

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students research Diwali, an important Hindu holiday in India. They identify authentic graphic designs that are common symbols used during the Diwali Festival of Lights. Afterward, they create a block-printed doorway decoration that is...

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