ESL Holiday Lessons
Christmas Day
Celebrary the holiday season fluently with a packet designed for English learners. The resource includes reading comprehension, spelling, scrambled sentences, and writing worksheets focused around Christmas.
Curriculum Corner
Australian Christmas
Where is Australia? How is an Australian Christmas from other Christmases around the world? Learners participate in a mini-research project where they discover what an Australian Christmas is like.
ELT-Connect
Happy Valentine's Day
Shelves filled with heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. Bouquets of red roses. Racks of romantic cards. Stores are preparing for Valentine's Day. Has the holiday become too commercialized? That is the question asked by a lesson designed...
ABCya
New Year's Day Crossword Puzzle
Three, two, one—Happy New Year! Ring in the magical moment between old and new years with an interactive crossword puzzle. Pupils read clues to guess words such as millennium, countdown, and fireworks.
PreKinders
Halloween Word Cards
Halloween doesn't have to be spooky! Bring these cute pictures to your preschool or kindergarten class to help kids learn about Halloween and the fall. Each card features a picture of a Halloween item, including a bat, a witch, and a ghost.
Dick Blick
Mardi-Gras Mask
Celebrate Mardi Gras in style with beautiful sparkling masks! Class members use provided materials to create their own Mardi Gras masks and then don their costumes for a fun masquerade.
PhysEdGames
Santa Tag
Choose a class member to be the Santa. Everyone else is a reindeer and spreads out around the gym. Santa's objective for the game is to tag the others so he can round up his reindeer. When a reindeer is tagged, they must step out of the...
Coloring Squared
Snowman—Practice Multiplication
What has a carrot nose, wears a scarf, and is made out of snow? Looks like you'll have to solve the multiplication facts to figure out the colors of each box that makes up this multiplication color-by-number worksheet.
Curated OER
December Holidays Vocabulary Dice
In this holiday activity, students cut out a dicut shape of a dice and put it together. Students put together the dice which has 6 holiday vocabulary words on it.
Curated OER
Writing About Holidays
Students research a holiday celebrated by their family and write a studenT story in which they explain the history of the holiday and describe ways in which it is celebrated.
Curated OER
Happy Holidays
In this holiday themed worksheet, students discuss holiday celebrations with their parents or grandparents. They determine how their celebrations are the same and different before writing or drawing about them.
Curated OER
Valentines Day - Elementary
In this ELL worksheet, learners match 6 definitions with pictures and then write the word each definition and picture represents. Students read a passage with pictures in place of missing words and then answer 5 fill in the blank...
Curated OER
What is Kwanzaa?
Describe the general characteristics of Kwanzaa after reading Seven Candles of Kwanzaa. For this Kwanzaa instructional activity, learners study the principles of the Kwanzaa holiday and interpret the principles through music and...
Curated OER
What is el Dia de los Muertos?
Learners explore the Mexican celebration el Dia de los Muertos. For this Mexican celebration lesson, students discuss ways people in the US honor the dead. Learners compare and contrast Mexican holidays and American holidays. Students...
Curated OER
Cinco de Mayo
In this holidays worksheet, students read 10 statements about Cinco de Mayo. Students fill in the blanks with the correct response.
Curated OER
Printing Practice: Happy Holidays
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the phrase "Happy Holidays," then color a picture of a Christmas tree. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
Curated OER
Comparing Christmas Around the World
Christmas inspired lesson and project ideas that help students sharpen critical thinking skills.
Curated OER
More Reasons to Love Valentine's Day
Heart-themed curriculum connections that your class will fall in love with.
Curated OER
Color Me: Le Sapin
The holidays are around the corner...excite your young French speakers with this coloring activity. They color a decorated tree, learn the French word le sapin, and rewrite the word in the space allotted.
Curated OER
El calendario notes guide
A comprehensive note-taking guide for days of the week, months, seasons, dates, and holidays. Either design your lessons around this guide (so that learners fill it out as you teach), or consider distributing this as a review guide...
Calendar Labs
School Month Calendars (Jun 2014 - Sep 2015)
At last! A template for an editable calendar that includes major holidays and permits users to easily design their own format. Key concepts to be covered can be indicated at the top of the template as can the course name and/or the...
Oregon Education Professional Development Commission
The First Days
Designed for first-year teachers, this 116-page packet has it all. Questions you should ask administrators and fellow teachers, a checklist of things to do before school starts, a school-year calendar to record special school events and...
Curated OER
The School Holiday Calendar
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...
Education.com
Winter Break Survival Kit
Help parents and children survive the long winter break with this collection of fun activities. Offering suggestions for volunteering during the holidays and making family New Year's resolutions, as well as a variety...