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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa unit plans
Christmas and Holidays Around the World Upper Elementary Passages, Map Skills
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD UNIT WITH 21 CELEBRATIONS! ⭐ "Very engaging for my 3rd-5th graders, and perfect for the weeks leading up to Christmas break. There are so many resources here that I didn't even get to use all of them in class, but it was great because I could pick and choose what would be most meaningful for my students. I loved the research pages for students to do their own research on a country, and my students had a lot of fun with that!"⭐ 2023 BONUS: 5 HOLIDA
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3rd - 6th
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Friendly Letter Study and Writing - Holiday Activities (with digital versions)
Tap into students’ natural excitement about the Christmas season with this fun, engaging, and super educational Reindeer Mail Mini-Unit! Filled with six activities that address critical ELA skills there is nothing “filler” about this unit! This resource includes 6 activities (plus two optional activities) that not only celebrate the Christmas holiday, but teach students important English Language Arts skills. In this unit students will make inferences, compare and contrast, read for informatio
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4th - 6th
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A Christmas Carol: Novel Unit with Cause/Effect Essay and other assignments
Christmas Carol Novel Unit - This Christmas Carol pack has everything you need while reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The focus is on the cause/effect essay which proves Scrooge changes throughout his experience. Other concepts covered in unit include persuasive techniques and letter writing, symbols, character analysis (traits), and note taking.
Materials Included:
-Ghost Synonym Poster for display during reading of text
- Group Character Traits Poster Project describing Scrooge
Grades:
7th - 9th
Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour!
The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
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6th - 8th
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December Lesson and Unit Plans - BUNDLE - 5 units to teach all December long!
Check out this bundle of 5 engaging units that you can teach during the entire month of December! That’s right! Just download these units and you won’t have to do a bit of lesson planning! This bundle includes five resources that perfectly pair together, celebrate the time of year, AND help students learn a ton of skills in just 20 days! This bundle is filled with timely resources as well, so that students can celebrate the festive season while learning!This bundle includes:• Flashback and F
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5th - 8th
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The Best Ugly Christmas Sweater Ever!
My students have a blast with this engaging, Christmas themed opinion writing activity. Students design their own "ugly" sweater and then write a paragraph stating why their sweater is the best. This product includes anchor charts for opinion writing, a model paragraph, graphic organizer, stationary, a template and two versions of a rubric.
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Music Game - Film Scores A Holiday Music Mini-Unit & Game
A Christmas Music Game Min-Unit that is both engaging and curriculum-based - Enough no-prep lessons to fill your December music classesThis unit focuses on how making specific choices (tone colour, melody, dynamics, etc) within a composition can evoke specific feelings within a listener. “What makes Christmas music SOUND like Christmas?” is the question we’re trying to answer – and what better way to do it than through the scores of popular Christmas films?This mini-unit is written for junior gr
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas Music Activities - Music Teacher's Holiday Survival Kit
History of the Christmas Tree
This zipped Christmas and winter holiday resource contains 3 separate files related to the history of the Christmas tree and the use of evergreens in winter festivals. Files include:
* Christmas Tree History - A reproducible article/reading passage on the origins of the Christmas tree, along with 4 reproducible pages of templates for creating an accordion shape book. After reading the article, students write a summary of each major event in the history of the Christmas tree and compile a shape
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3rd - 7th
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Christmas independent reading Activities Unit Sub Plans crafts Early finishers
Christmas All around the world English language arts, The Christmas theme is math & writing reading activity, the winter holiday vacation topic is English language art activities, Christmas icebreaker game BUNDLE, December, Santa Claus, Snow, snowflakes, mistletoe, reindeer, Jesu writing craft activities, winter break morning work reading for an early finisher, back to school after winter break phonics main idea centers activity NO PREP, wintertime substitute, winter unit brain breaks Classr
Grades:
3rd - 12th
December Speech Therapy Idioms - Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Abstract and figurative language are always harder for students in language therapy or ESL or ELL classes. My students were always confused by the typical idiom lessons that included literal pictures of the idiom's meaning. These were especially hard for my concrete learners and those students on the Autism Spectrum.This themed packet is DIFFERENT because it gives students a logical way to group idioms ( by seasonal theme) while still scaffolding them through the learning process.Themes address
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Idioms School Year Bundle for Middle and High School Speech Therapy
The Grinch Unit
The Grinch unit for middle to high schoolers. The product includes a fun story cube activity, a figurative language activity, a character type activity, and a whole story analysis page. You can use this with the full story or the movie. Students can take a hands on approach to learning during the holiday season!
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Holidays Around The World -Christmas in Mexico Feliz Navidad Unit
Feliz Navidad , Christmas in Mexico Unit
Holidays Around The World
Includes:
-Powerpoint (45 slides)
The history, traditions, about, crafts, and more!
- "My Feliz Navidad Christmas in Mexico book" goes along with powerpoint, workbook (28pages)
- Teacher edition workbook is the PowerPoint
- 2 Mexican crafts (paper bag piñata and create a poinsettia)
-3 Activities (Sing Feliz Navidad, Acrostic Poem, Nativity Scene Play)
- 1 Recipe (sweet rice pudding)
This is a fun interactive unit t
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K - 6th
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Holidays Around The World -Christmas in Italy Unit
Christmas in Italy Unit
Holidays Around The World
Includes:
-Powerpoint (51 slides)
The history, traditions, facts, crafts, and more!
- "My Christmas in Italy" goes with powerpoint, workbook
- Teacher edition workbook is the PowerPoint
- 3 Hanukkah crafts ( Befana's Broom, 3D Manger, Pasta snowflake ornament)
-3 Activities (Color Befana, Decorate a Stocking, Befana writing prompt_
- 1 Recipe ( Spaghetti and anchovies)
This is a fun interactive unit that dives right into the traditi
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K - 6th
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A Christmas Carol Unit PowerPoint
Teaching A Christmas Carol? Kick off this time-honored classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 32-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students' interest. Slides include informative facts on Charles Dickens, Victorian London, themes, and character descriptions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.Need more products for A Christmas Carol? Check out my A Christmas Carol Unit Bundle! Make connecting with text
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Bundle
A Christmas Carol Unit - 2 Weeks - Holiday Novel Study, Charles Dickens, CCSS
This is a fun 2 week unit plan for A Christmas Carol, the classic novella by Charles Dickens. Engage your students during the holiday season by delving into this classic story. Students will: Participate in engaging PowerPoint sessions, read the text (included), collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences about themes supported by evidence, and complete a writing assessment as a final analysis. Note: The standards are aimed toward upper high school grade levels. The unit can
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Also included in: Christmas Literature Bundle - 3 classic units for the season - CCSS
Strummer's First Christmas Concert | Concert Band
Do you have a holiday performance coming up and need something simple, fun, and crowd-pleasing? Look no further than Strummer's Christmas First Concert which is a collection of six easy and unison Christmas melodies for concert band. Parts included: flute/oboe, clarinet/trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, horn, trombone/baritone/bassoon, tuba, timpani, percussion, mallets, rehearsal piano, conductor score. Versions with "notes written in" are included.Also included are four different backing tracks in
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4th - 6th
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Christmas and December Writing Lessons for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
This is a Christmas writing unit for the month of December that covers Common Core standards for 3rd-5th-grade persuasive, informative, and narrative writing. The standard and objectives are written on each lesson. For each writing topic of persuasive, informative, and narrative writing there are 4-5 lessons. The lessons build on each other and end with a final writing project. For Persuasive Writing the students will write an email to Santa Claus persuading him which gift to give them for Chris
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6th
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Christmas in the Trenches (World War l Picture Book) - A Complete Teaching Guide
Christmas in the Trenches is a beautiful picture book based on true events during the first and second winters of World War l. This guide was written to help you utilize this wonderful story in your social studies or literacy classrooms. The guide includes:
Synopsis and Review
Ideas for Instruction
Ideas for Questioning
Connections to Historical Content, Discussion Points, Teachable Moments, Ideas for Extension
Content Vocabulary
Student Printables (with activities that include content voc
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4th - 8th
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Christmas Advertising. Make and Sell A Toy. Analyzing Media Ads. Media Literacy.
Teaching in December is challenging... for many reasons. Children are in the holiday spirit and would much rather work on Christmas lists and talk about toys than work.So- what if toy shopping became work? Specifically, what if you could cover media literacy curriculum expectations while boosting Christmas cheer in your class? Children will think they are just browsing for toys!I think I may have just created a new top to your teacher Christmas list: Analyzing Christmas media ads and designing a
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4. Writing Bundle One.
Beginning Strings Christmas Bundle | String Orchestra
Get your beginning students in the Christmas spirit with our simple and easy Christmas beginning strings bundle.This bundle includes:Four Easy Christmas SongsFour Easy Christmas DuetsEach product includes parts for violin, viola, cello, and double bassCheck Out More Christmas Strings Products16 Flex CarolsChristmas ChoralesChristmas Warm-upsChristmas Theory Activities
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4th - 6th
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Navidad en Guatemala - Christmas in Guatemala power point
This presentation covers all the different aspects of how Christmas is celebrated in Guatemala, but it is also is a springboard to elicit language from your students and help them make cultural connections. With beautiful pictures and age appropriate videos, students get to experience Navidad in this Central American country. It has simple text in Spanish, more detailed explanations in English, as well as a page to compare traditions in the States and Guatemala. It has a printable group task rel
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4th - 7th
January Speech Therapy Idioms - Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Abstract and figurative language are always harder for students in language therapy or ESL or ELL classes. My students were always confused by the typical idiom lessons that included literal pictures of the idiom's meaning. These were especially hard for my concrete learners and those students on the Autism Spectrum.This themed packet is DIFFERENT because it gives students a logical way to group idioms ( by seasonal theme) while still scaffolding them through the learning process.Themes address
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Idioms School Year Bundle for Middle and High School Speech Therapy
Holidays Around the World -Differentiated -3 Reading Levels, Activities, & More!
Differentiated Holidays Around the World:Travel to 6 countries with your students this December! With passports and boarding passes you and your kiddos will get to dive into different traditions around the world. Each country has a reading passage on 3 different levels and 5 different question sets! After reading have your students scan the QR code on their boarding pass for a video to learn even more about the holiday time in that country. Now that you and your students have a good idea of how
Grades:
K - 8th
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Christmas (and other December Holidays) Around The World
Set off on a world adventure as you learn about Christmas (and other December holidays) around the world! Inside the unit study you will find plane and train tickets to take you on your journey. The Elf on the Shelf suggestions and recipes to bake together will surely help you make lasting Christmas memories!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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