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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa service learning study guides
Gift of the Magi-- Readers' Theater Adaptation with Activities
Included in Gift of the Magi-teacher and student pages-vocabulary -pre-reading activities-questions -projects-quiz-answer key -synopsis -suggestions for teacher useThis readers’ theater adaptation of “Gift of the Magi” adheres wholly to the plot, setting, characterization, and themes of the original story from which it is adapted. It can be used with both large and small groups in language arts classes. Students in regular, remedial, gifted, and special education classrooms, in both middle and h
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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The Legend of the Christmas Stocking
This reading and writing lesson was designed to help your students learn the legends behind our Christmas stocking traditions. Your students will read two different stocking legends in order to complete a compare and contrast activity. Next, they will complete a craftivity and a service learning project that will help teach your students the importance of giving to others this time of year!
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Christmas Legends Bundle
Secret Student Christmas Writing Prompts | Secret Santa Writing Unit
Secret Santa Writer's Workshop Unit is a classroom community building service unit and writing unit. Students will become a "Secret Santa" for another student in the class. Students will have 10 writing prompts to write letters to their Secret Santa. They will also have 4 accountability writing prompts in which they report their acts of service to their teacher. At the end of the unit, the students reveal their Secret Santa with a fun activity!Best of all? This unit has just been REVISED to incl
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Secret Student Writing Activities Full Year Bundle, Prompts and more
Random Acts of Kindness | Christmas
I think any sort of activity that teaches kindness is a must in an elementary classroom. I typically do a unit on "random acts of kindness" during the time after Thanksgiving Break and before Christmas Break. This year I decided to pair my unit with an "Elf on the Shelf." Please note - This activity does NOT have to be done with an elf on the shelf. It will work with or without one. I have included a sample of the letter that I gave to my kids when our elf arrived. Our elf hangs around each day
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Not Grade Specific
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Christmas Ornaments for Gratitude
These Christmas ornaments are a great way to get your students thinking about others during the holiday season. Using the Christmas ornament templates provided, they will write a note to someone - either thanking or complimenting them. String them together and you have a positive garland to hang in your classroom!Students could also think of a family member, friend, classmate, staff member, etc. who deserves a gift for the holiday. They can use the writing pages to describe the gift, who it i
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3rd - 5th
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Study Guide No Prep Worksheets
"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson is the perfect book to read in your classroom in December. This is a complete novel study guide for that book. I have divided the book into three units so you can cover it in three weeks. This study guide contains over 25 no prep printable worksheets covering a variety of literacy lessons plus 7 writing prompt pages.***New - Google Classroom Ready - Perfect for Distance Learning***Are you doing distance learning? This product is also ready to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Mini Novel Bundle 3rd - 5th Grade
Holiday Kindness Countdown Calendar for Christmas or Winter, Digital & Editable
Help children learn what kindness looks, sounds, and feels like this holiday season by creating a countdown calendar (similar to an Advent calendar) that can be used to countdown the days until Christmas, winter, or your holiday break. Each day, pull an ornament that displays a daily random act of kindness (in print or using the digital Google slides) that kids can do in school or at home (editable version included). Or hide the ornament with your Classroom Elf. Children get involved from the
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Christmas Bundle | Holiday Traditions
Short Story & Movie Guide: The Greatest Gift; It's a Wonderful Life Workbook
This is a two week study for the short story titled "The Greatest Gift" (by Philip Van Doren Stern) and the movie titled It's a Wonderful Life."The Greatest Gift" is the short story that provided the inspiration for It's a Wonderful Life. The short story is available as a hardcover book and as an e-book. An Afterword by the author's daughter is found at the end of each of these books:"The Greatest Gift" 1996 edition"The Greatest Gift" 2014 editionThe guide contains 10 sections and includes:voc
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Christmas Elf Grams! Have You Been Elf-ed, Yet?
Celebrate the Holidays with these "Feel Good" Elf Grams!Make someone smile with these very colorful and cute messages of love and respect. What's Included?1. 10 different colorful characters2. 8 unique gram sayings: "You're the Jingle to my Bell" Because... "You're the Holly to my Jolly" Because... "You're the Marshmallow in my Cocoa" Because... "You're the Star to My Tree" Because... "You're the Candy to My Cane" Because... "You're the Holly to my Ivy" Because...
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Not Grade Specific
A Christmas Carol Animated 2009 Starring Jim Carrey Video Study Guide
This video study guide contains 39 questions and is designed to keep students engaged and on task during a class's viewing of "A Christmas Carol" starring Jim Carrey (Walt Disney Production 2009). This is a classic film of Dickens's timeless tale of redemption. . This version retains much of Dickens's language. All questions are in viewing order. The video study guide is excellent to use as a tool to help students remain engaged and focus on plot details to increase their understanding and comp
Grades:
5th - 12th
Twas the Night Before Christmas Common Core Study Guide for Middle School
Introduce the classic holiday poem to your students with rigor and creative thinking! This product includes the text of the poem, a vocabulary activity, questions about form/style, and an SBAC style SCR. The SCR also includes a template for students to follow in order to write a solid paragraph response. Finally, there is an art project assignment, with rubric, to support the focus on imagery in the assignment.
It is based on 7th grade standards, but due to the cyclical nature of the Common Co
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas and Winter Holiday Mega Middle School Bundle-Save 50%
Christmas Recipes in a Jar Project Special Education Entrepreneur Activities
Here are over 200 craft recipe ideas for gifts in jars! These DIY mason jar gifts are perfect for parents, staff, colleagues, volunteers, and more! These crafts are great for service learning, school fundraisers, pay-it-forward projects, entrepreneur activities, and your own personal gift-giving. Please click on the PREVIEW.NOTE: This isn't a fancy resource and simply has one recipe on each page. It is a great resource to save you time from searching!There are craft recipes for:Cookies, Breads,
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Not Grade Specific
A Christmas Carol starring Patrick Stewart (TNT1999) Video Study Guide
This video study guide contains 45 questions and is designed to be used with a class's viewing of "A Christmas Carol" starring Patrick Stewart (TNT TV Production 1999). This is a classic film of Dickens's timeless tale of redemption. The film is available on www.tntdrama.com and DVD. This version retains much of Dickens's language. All questions are in viewing order. The video study guide is excellent to use as a tool to help students remain engaged and focus on plot details to increase their u
Grades:
6th - 12th
Student Christmas Gift to Parents Following Directions Winter Holiday Gift Craft
You will download a Christmas or winter holiday gift craftivity for your students in 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, middle school, ESL, speech and language therapy, and special education students. They will use this fun packet to practice following directions by reading the recipe to make a yummy cookies in a jar recipes for their parents, other teachers, principal, support staff, volunteers, paraeducators, student teacher, grandparents, and more!This winter project also
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Not Grade Specific
Advent Prayer Service for Kids
This is the Advent Prayer Service my second graders do at school. It would work for younger or older students as well. Included are the following:Two versions of the prayer service: 14 students or 28 students. You can edit the "parts" so you have enough parts for your kids. A copy of the readings for the priest or principalLetter home to parentsWords to songs NOT written by me (O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Mary Had a Baby/Go Tell it on the Mountain)Words to an Advent Song sung to the tune of D
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1st - 5th
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FREE CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY – Acts of Kindness Checklist - Advent Calendar for Kids
Encourage students to be generous this Christmas with the FREE acts of kindness advent calendar. Use the kindness checklist to complete good deeds with ideas for each day of December (with a few free choice squares). If you'd like a whole grade challenge, try the bulletin board advent calendar. ➡️ Teacher Feedback"We started using this Advent calendar this week. The graphics are appealing and the kindness tasks each day are perfect! We use the daily kindness tasks as a focus after our morning p
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Holiday Short Story for 6-9: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" Dylan Thomas
Help students to better understand the lovely language of Dylan Thomas in this charming winter story. Two versions, one without decorative borders and clipart, possibly for older students. Story NOT included but see the link below for a copy. What you get:Critical-thinking Questions include literary elements such as allusion, humor, symbol, theme, figures of speech, mood and more. Students make personal connections with the text.An Opinion Paragraph activityVocabularyDetailed Answer KeyTeach
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6th - 9th
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Study Guide: A Christmas Carol Workbook
This is a literature study guide for the classic story titled A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. The guide contains: vocabulary activitiesdiscussion questionsliterature analyses: similes, satire, idiom, repetition, characterization, the number 3, allusions, point of view, analyzing writing, personification, alliteration, inference questions, word origin, theme, comparisons, onomatopoeiaextension activitiesgamespersonal applications/Bibleweb linksa crossword puzzleactivities that can be used
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9th - 12th
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Party with a "Purr"pose: Christmas Service Learning Project for Homeless Animals
HALF OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS PRODUCT WILL BE DONATED BACK TO MY LOCAL ANIMAL SHELTER!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting this cause!
The holidays are right around the corner and what’s a better way to celebrate than by giving back to those in need. I have a strong love for animals and this year my class shares that love too. Our class will be participating in a service learning project for our local animal shelter. A service learning project integrates meaningful communi
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K - 5th
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Christmas Activities, Home Alone 2 Complete Movie Unit, Questions/Activities
Are you looking for a fast and free Christmas lesson for your teenage students that not only engages them during the holidays, but also connects standards and sparks a real-world service project to take their learning from the classroom to the community? Perhaps you need a sub plan during the holidays and a movie would make planning so much easier! This no prep, movie-viewing guide for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has everything you need! Student Experience: While students watch this all-time
Grades:
6th - 11th
Charlie Brown Christmas Study Guide-Common Core Aligned for Middle School
This product is ready to print and use today! In those hectic days before Christmas break, it's always nice to have a movie day...but of course you don't want to lose instructional time. This study guide is here to save the day!
Questions align with the 7th grade Common Core standards for reading literature (but due to the spiraling nature of the standards, it works well for grades 6-8). All questions are short-response, so students must think critically. Questions relate to conflict, recurring
Grades:
6th - 8th
Study Guide: Treasures of the Snow Interactive
This is a literature study guide for the book titled Treasures of the Snow, by Patricia St. John. The book is set in Switzerland; it is an amazing story of forgiveness and redemption.NOTE: This study guide is for the original book that is out of print (not the revised edition that is now being published by Moody). The first publishing date for this book was 1950 in England. The ISBN # for the original Moody Edition is 9780802400086.The Moody edition is available on loan at Internet Archive --
Grades:
5th - 8th
Kindness for Kids in the Classroom, Community, and School Setting!
Are you inspired to teach your students about the true meaning of the holiday season- the importance of kindness and service towards others? I created the unit because the group of students I have this year really need explicit examples of kindness in action. I wanted to create meaningful and authentic lessons so my students could experience the benefits from small and simple acts of kindness. I was absolutely amazed with how excited my group of students were to perform these acts of kindness!1.
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1st - 5th
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CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDAR CHALLENGE Kindness Display, Writing, Coloring Pages
This engaging advent calendar, kindness coloring pages, and writing activities bundle is an exciting way to foster positive character traits at the end of the year. ACTIVITY 1Our Christmas kindness advent calendar is supplied in various formats for teachers to encourage kids to do a good deed every day during December. Acts of kindness help build character and nurture the spirit of giving during the festive season. Use the bulletin board printables to create a countdown for the classroom or prin
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2nd - 4th
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