Winter
Holiday Fun!
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Looking
for some great winter and holiday activities for your students? We have come
together to help offer you some fantastic ideas to use! We have STEM, fun math
games, puzzling mysteries, sentence practice, winter reading, and more! Read on for some great ideas from 5 different shops!
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Mrs. Hansen’s Helpfuls
Snow
Globe Adventure
Read
a great original story about two children who enter into a snow globe
adventure! There is a great writing activity that goes along with the story
booklet. Create your own snow globe shaped storybook! Different writing
templates available.
Snow Globe Adventure Link
Polar
Express
Who
doesn’t love Chris Van Allsburg’s
story, Polar Express? This literature unit includes fun activities and an end
of the story craft where students build their own story train!
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Kelly Malloy
I
love to make math fact practice more fun for my students, because let's face
it, the more fun something is, the more likely we are to do it right? One of my favorite ways to practice math
facts during the Christmas season is with this Cookies for Santa
game!
I put
all of the "cookie" pieces in a leftover Christmas cookie tin upside
down. The students pull the cards out
and attempt to answer the fact. If they get it correct, they get to keep the
card. If they get it wrong, it goes back
into the tin. If they get the dreaded KABOOM card - they have to put all of
their cards back. The winner is the
student with the most cards when time is up.
You
can play this game with any type of math facts or vocabulary words written on
index cards, or you can check out my pre-made math facts ones here.
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Angie S.
Christmas
Activity for Speech Therapy Sentence Building
Forming
sentences is very important for young learners. This activity uses real-life
pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence
starters. It is perfect for early readers. This is also an activity to practice
identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of
items. There are 15 groups of winter and Christmas items. The student will
match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many?
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Mrs. J’s Resource Creations
Math
Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf
Uh
oh! Which elf is eating all of the delicious cookies made by Mrs. Claus?
Toy
production and elf morale are greatly reduced in Santa’s toy factory this year.
Students must help Santa figure out who the selfish elf is by using their math
skills to discover important clues. Then, your math detectives will be required
to apply critical thinking to eliminate elf suspects and narrow it down to one.
This activity is a fun way to incorporate math into your Christmas theme and
will engage even some of your most reluctant learners. This math mystery
activity is available in versions for grades 1 – 6. Choose a level that suits
you, or ‘clue swap’ across grades to differentiate this activity with your
class (clue swapping is only available using the 2nd- 6th grade versions).
Check
out the video hook that can be used to introduce this activity here:
(Individual
grade resource links can be found within the video product description
section.)
Once
upon a Crime ‘Rescue Rudolph’ (Reading Mystery)
This
Christmas Reading Mystery 'Once Upon a Crime - Rescue Rudolph' is a fun way to
incorporate a range of ELA skills in one.
Students
will be required to read the story and complete activities to discover clues.
Each clue requires students to critically think to decide which suspects they
can eliminate as being Rudolph's kidnapper.
Everything that you need for this activity is in the download, including
the reading passages. Just print, copy for your students and go! Find it here:
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Jewel’s School Gems
It
can often be a struggle to keep kids engaged during this holiday season.
However, things can be easier for you with the right activities that promote
learning and engagement. My ChristmasAround the World STEM Challenge Bundle
provides
hours of engineering fun while making sure your students learn about the
Christmas traditions of various countries in the world. Countries included are
Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, and Italy. Students can design and build a
surfboard for Santa, a Christmas sock for Papai
Noel, a foldable ladder for Baba Nöel, a
catapult for throwing presents, and a broomstick for Befana. You
and your students will surely enjoy these Christmas STEM challenges. Check it
out today!
I hope you love these activity ideas from all of us! Please enter our raffle giveaway!
Thanks,
Erin
