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Fun in the Sun
Students freeze colored water. In this art lesson, students take the blocks of ice out of the freezer, put the blocks into a small pool and watch the ice melt.
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Hide the Acorns
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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Mother's Day Butterfly and Poem
Students make butterflies out of paint and an open hand. In this art lesson, students press an open hand with paint on paper spreading the fingers to represent wings.
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Potato Head
Students create a potato looking object. In this art lesson, students decorate hamster bedding with a face making it look like the potato. Students water the object causing the grass to grow making it look like hair.
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Valentine Hat
Students create a valentine hat out of red construction paper and a paper towel tube. In this art lesson, students create a hat out of strips of red construction paper attached to the paper towel tube. Students glue hearts on the hat as...
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December holidays dotted handwriting worksheet
In this holiday vocabulary instructional activity, students trace and write 3 words having to do with the holidays in regular printing. Students trace and write the words adapt, Kwanzaa, and ornaments.
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December Holidays Cursive Practice
In this cursive practice worksheet, learners practice tracing and writing 3 words: adapt, Kwanzaa and ornaments. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Researching and Writing About Another Country's Holiday: Documenting and Communicating Information
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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Researching Another country's Holiday: Organizing and Recording Information
Prior to this instructional activity, 5th graders will have collected notes from several sources. Students extend their note taking to include at least one example each of summarizing and paraphrasing. They record bibliographic...
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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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Multicultural Holidays
Students create a cube exploring different holiday traditions. In this multicultural appreciation lesson, students research Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Kwanzaa holiday traditions. This lesson encourages the use of an individual...
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Africa
In this Africa activity, students use each letter in the country Africa to represent a verb or phrase. Students create verbs or phrases for 6 letters in this verb chart.
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Kente Cloth
Students attempt to research the history of using the kente cloth for its cultural purposes. They comment in discussion about the highly visual appeal of the cloths while going through the process of creating their own. The importance of...
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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
For 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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Idea Generator
Second graders listen to a story about gift giving and letter writing and generate a class list of presents they have received.
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Mother's Day Bookmark
Students create a Mother's Day bookmark. In this Mother's Day gift lesson, students get a bookmark and copy a short poem about their mom. They glue a picture of themselves at the top and give it as a gift.
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Nativity Play
Students participate in a play. In this Christmas lesson, students act out the Nativity. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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A Day of Hanukkah
You can teach your students about Hanukkah using these fun activities.
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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.
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Christmas Around the World
Students demonstrate an understanding of how different cultures celebrate Christmas by participating in artistic, musical, culinary and role play activities.
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Eat and Be Merry - Planning a Mexican Posada
Students plan their own fiesta. They study information about a "posada"
and explain the significance of a pi??ata. Afterwards, they construct a pi??ata to be used for end-of-unit party. in addition, they read a story and answer questions...