Easy, Engaging Holiday Activities
As we enter December and the mental countdown to winter break, we must still attempt to engage our seriously distracted students with meaningful lessons and activities. We find that it helps if we embrace this time of year with some holiday themed lessons. To help out we gathered some of our favorite TpT resources to assist in taming our students' behavior.
First up is our newest product - Winter Holiday Grab & Go! It is full of engaging, yet academic activities to fill your last few weeks before a much needed break! The 8 activities included are:
- Nonfiction article with questions
- Focused Poetry with questions
- Holiday Cause and Effect Chain
- Mentor sentence quiz
- Identifying homophones activity
- Irregular past tense verb activity
- Kindness Calendar - Make the Grinch Cringe
- Blank holiday writing pages
by Kelley Dolling - Teacher Idea Factory
students drop peppermint candies on an adjective mat to help them fill in the blanks on a fun Christmas story template. Our students enjoyed reading each other's silly stories. It's like a fun candy twist on Mad Libs for the holiday.
We absolutely love working with mentor sentences. These fun holiday sentences keep the students working on writing and grammar right up to the winter break.
These free 32 Holly Jolly Homophone Task Cards will help your 3rd - 5th grade students practice identifying various homophones. The cards have a holiday theme, are very kid friendly, and not to mention fun!
Christmas Simile and Metaphor Task Cards by Teaching with a Mountain View
These task cards are adorable and holiday themed. Our students enjoyed learning the differences between similes and metaphors during this chaotic time of year. Such a great free resources.
Mr. Grinch Focused Poetry
By Texas Teaching Chicks
Help your students practice their poetry skills using our Mr. Grinch Focus Poetry. You can work on it a little all week long or do the lessons in one day. The students enjoy singing the Grinch song and working on comprehension questions, vocabulary, figurative language, and grammar.
Perfect welcome back activity to do with your students when they return in 2018!
Have students create a bio poem to describe a snowman! It is a super fun, high interest activity that is a print and go for the teacher!
A simple menu meant to help your students generate kindness during the holiday season! Included is a writing prompt page to explain their experience performing acts of kindness during this wonderful time of year.
My upper elementary friends would love these! Thanks for sharing :)
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