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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.3.1a resources
Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Christmas Holiday Writing Prompts and Writing Paper
20 Christmas/holiday writing prompt cards to practice opinion and narrative writing skills in color and black & white, SANTA and CHRISTMAS acrostic poem paper, and 8 writing pages in color and black & white with dotted AND single lines! Great for writing about holidays or writing letters to Santa or an Elf on the Shelf! Each page has a different holiday picture. Print them in color, or print in black & white and have your students color their own! The designs coordinate with each
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in:Â Year Long Holiday Writing Prompts and Paper BUNDLE
How to Catch an Elf Trap Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity and STEAM Challenge
Can your students catch an Elf? Learn how to catch an elf with this super fun and engaging Christmas STEM Activity!Students design and build an Elf trap! After they have completed their STEM project, there is a persuasive writing activity where students write about setting the elf free.An excellent companion activity to the Christmas read aloud book How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Winter and Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Christmas Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing and Elf Application Project
Christmas Writing, Christmas Creative Writing, Elf ApplicationHO HO HO! 'Tis the season Santa needs extra ELVES on staff!Help Wanted at the North Pole! is a festive writing project, encouraging students to exercise their creativity and practice the "art" of writing a letter of interest. Students will begin by listening to How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky (not included) and completing a corresponding graphic organizer. Next, students will receive a Help Wanted at the North Pole! advertise
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Winter and Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Your class will have their best Christmas ever with Christmas Read Aloud STEM Challenges! Create a Gingerbread Disguise. Trap an Elf. Build a Polar Express Maze. Help Olive the other Reindeer fly. Your students will love this STEM bundle!Literacy Integration:Includes 4 Christmas Activities and lessons as amazing companion activities to our favorite Christmas Read Aloud Books: The Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgOlive, The Other Reindeer by J.otto Seibold and Vivian WalshThe Gingerbread Man by
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
 ...
Olive the Other Reindeer Activities Beyond the Text
Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Activities Beyond the Text Unit Do you love sharing the misguided tale of, "Olive the Other Reindeer" with your kiddos during the holiday season? Then, they'll love this fun Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Unit! and you'll adore the academic focus this unit has! This unit is packed with a week's worth (or more!) of Olive the Other Reindeer activities that are perfect for sprinkling in the fun while building your students' reading comprehension this holiday seaso
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Winter Holiday Activities - Ugly Sweater Creative Writing for January & December
Want to provide holiday activities for your upper elementary students before winter break while also practicing multiple writing skills? This Ugly Sweater Christmas Writing resource gives students short, engaging writing tasks before the holiday break. The holiday writing prompts are interconnected and follow a similar set-up so they’re engaging for students and simple for you. What’s Inside:✔ 5 days of interconnected short writing prompts✔ Graphic organizers to plan writing✔ Pages for writte
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Winter Holidays Around the World Activities Multicultural Reading, Writing, Art
Learn about winter holidays from around the world with this culturally responsive, informational unit for 5 diverse winter holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, Las Posadas, Diwali and Kwanzaa. Non-fiction passages with comprehension, a print and go trifold for each holiday, 5 nonfiction small readers, writing extensions, graphic organizers, report templates, art and fun rolled into to one great unit. Common Core aligned for the elementary classroom!What’s Included in this culturally inclusive unit?❄️
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Holidays Around the World Suitcase & Passport: Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Take your class on a holiday journey around the world, all while focusing on reading comprehension and opinion writing skills for Common Core. Students get their own suitcase, passport, map, and travel guide book as they "travel" to learn about how holidays are celebrated around the world. They can do a Close Reading of up to 10 different countries/continents, and then complete an opinion writing assignment to this prompt: “In your opinion, in which part of the world would you most like to visit
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Connect Holiday STEM And Literacy in 1st Grade through 5th Grade!This Christmas STEM Activities and Challenges BUNDLE is full of amazing Christmas Activities that connect STEM and literacy. Build a Christmas Tree and House out of Legos.Design Binary Code Christmas Ornament.Launch Santa over the moon with a Santa Catapult.Decorate a Mooseltoe Christmas Tree!Literacy IntegrationPerfect companion activities to the following Christmas read aloud books:Auntie Claus by Elise PrimaveraHow Santa Got His
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
 ...
Christmas Opinion / Persuasive Writing: A Low-Tech Christmas - Grades 3-5
Eddie the Elf (one of Santa’s hardest-working elves), is trying get Santa to stop the production of ALL electronic toys, video games, and computers at the North Pole. Eddie has been explaining to Santa that kids should receive toys that have them up and moving, not sitting around, being a bump on a log.THIS IS READY AS A PRINT VERSION AND A GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION TO SHARE INTO GOOGLE CLASSROOM! UPDATED 11/30/2020!Also check out the ULTIMATE Christmas Bundle by clicking here!Students are asked to
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Ultimate Christmas Bundle: Social Studies, Reading, Writing and Math!
3rd Grade Christmas Activities 3rd Grade Reindeer Games Reading, Writing, & Math
3rd Grade No-Prep Christmas Activities “Reindeer Games”: Keep your students engaged and motivated this December! This set of “reindeer games” themed, no-prep Christmas reading, Christmas writing, and Christmas math activities for 3rd grade will make the days or weeks before Christmas break fun and engaging in your classroom! These third grade Christmas activities are aligned to the 3rd grade Common Core Standards. You can relax and enjoy the holidays with your 3rd grade students and continue mee
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Christmas Santa Writing
A Christmas writing project where students will complete the full writing process to practice persuasive writing. Students till complete a job application to relate this project to their real life! Students will be convincing others why they should be Santa or work at the north pole.This project is a mentor text writing project with the story "How Santa Got His Job" by Stephan Kerensky!Why will these activities help your students grow and make you happy?Engagement- The students will LOVE applyin
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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December Writing Center | Paragraph Writing Lesson | 2nd Grade 3rd Grade
Do you need a hands-on approach to writing a paragraph for your students? Or maybe paragraph writing is new to your entire class and you want a scaffolded resource for your teaching in 2nd grade, 3rd grade, or 4th grade! Try my themed paragraph puzzles! This tactile method helps students see exactly how the topic sentence can lead to details.What does this download include?6 different paragraphs, with each sentence in its own box. Cut the boxes out into strips and allow students to piece the par
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â Paragraph Writing Hands-On Activity | Writing Center BUNDLE | 2nd Grade
Run a Christmas Store | Holiday Themed | Third Grade Math Game
The holidays are a great time to practice adding up the items on your Christmas list and subtracting money because of sale prices! In this real-world activity, students will run their own toy store. They will use second and third-grade math to practice staying within a budget, solving two and three-step story problems for customers, and graphing their sales. Language Arts standards have been integrated into this holiday activity! Students will use their knowledge of character traits to brainstor
Grades:
2nd - 4th
The Gingerbread Baby Gingerbread Man Trap STEM Activity
Integrate STEM in your classroom this Christmas Season with Gingerbread Man Trap STEM Challenge!Students discover how to catch a Gingerbread Man as they design and build a their very own Gingerbread Man Trap! Increase problem solving and engineering skills through this engaging Christmas STEM challenge. An excellent companion activity to the book Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflectio
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Gingerbread READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Christmas Writing Activities Persuasive Letters to Santa December Prompt
Christmas writing made simple! Looking to engage your students and welcome the holiday season into your classroom this December? This real-world letter-writing project for Santa is just what you need! Your students will LOVE to write to Santa with a purpose! Perfect to keep students engaged and working hard during the month of December.This set includes 4 different prompt topics. Help your students master the skill of writing a persuasive writing letter to convince Santa to do one of the followi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages Writing Activities Math Games
Elf Activities - Elf Application
Are you looking for a fun Christmas writing activity that gets your students engaged AND still meets standards? This Elf Application is just what you need for your holiday writing! This Christmas writing resource is aligned to the CCSS! This activity gives a short lesson to go along with the book How Santa Got His Job, but the book is not necessary and you can easily complete the application without the book.Included in the Resource:Teacher instructions for before, during and after reading str
Grades:
1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â December Activities BUNDLE
Elf for Hire Character Traits and Opinion Writing Project
Calling on all qualified applicants! Do you have what it takes to work at the North Pole? Engage your class in this fun holiday activity! This activity is perfect for reviewing character traits and opinion writing, with just the right amount of fun. At the beginning of this project, a Help Wanted sign will mysteriously appears in the classroom calling on students to apply in writing to work as an elf this holiday season. Students must then prove they are the right elf for the job by describing t
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Dear Santa Persuasive Letter | Christmas Craft | December Opinion Writing Prompt
Writing Letters to Santa has never been so fun! These Dear Santa Letter templates are the perfect addition to your December writing prompts. Students will practice writing a persuasive letter to Santa to let him know how good they have been this year and what they would like for Christmas. These Dear Santa Letter Templates are differentiated for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students.What's Inside the Dear Santa Letter Template:Teaching Guide and Photo ExamplesStudent Planning Page3 Differenti
Grades:
K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Year of Creative Writing Prompts | Bulletin Boards & Activities
Gingerbread READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Your class will have their best Christmas ever with Gingerbread Read Aloud STEM Challenges! Create a Gingerbread Disguise for the Gingerbread Man. Build a Gingerbread Trap for the Gingerbread Baby. Engineer a Gumdrop Bridge for the Gingerbread Boy. Make a Gingerbread House for the Gingerbread Mouse.Includes 4 Gingerbread Activities and lessons as amazing companion activities to our favorite Gingerbread Read Aloud Books: The Gingerbread Man by Eric Kimmel, The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett, The G
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
 ...
MEMOIRS OF AN ELF activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these Memoirs of an Elf activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, Memoirs of an Elf by Devin Scillian.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar sk
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Auntie Claus Christmas READ ALOUD Unplugged Coding Activity
Create a Binary Code Christmas Ornament Unplugged Coding for Hour of Code, STEM Club, and First Grade through 5th Grade Classrooms! Make learning fun with this Christmas Coding Activity where students learn how to code and decode binary codes. They build their own Binary Code Christmas Ornament to give to a friend and write about what the word or letters mean.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use binary coding to create their own Christmas Ornament. Perfect activity for a Chri
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
Also included in: Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
THE NIGHT TREE activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Night Tree activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Night Tree by Eve Bunting.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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