I do love holidays! And, any excuse to sneak holidays into school work is fine by me! Hence, I give you another fun graphing worksheet for kindergarten or first grade. Use the pictures to fill in the graph with data. Click here for the free worksheet (PDF): I Can Graph the Pictures- Winter 2
December is my favorite month. By far. If’s full of the best holidays of the entire year! And there are so many cute kids crafts for Christmas, Hanukkah, and winter. Here are some of my favorites:
1. Melted Snowman
Santa Barbara Snowman: This activity was easy-peasy and made a neat and funny craft. Living in sunny Southern California, we don’t really have opportunities to make snowmen, so using a simple pre-printed sheet with the outline of a puddle and an overturned paper bowl the kids made their own melty, sunshine snowmen. They put the usual accessories on, with the exception of the sunglasses, and then wrote a sentence about where their snowman should move to or what happened to him. A lot of bang for the buck. (source)
2. Paper Plate Wreaths
Here’s a fun activity to use in a unit on symmetry or during a discussion of story setting (since lots of holiday stories take place at a gingerbread house!). Print off one page for each student and have them finish the rest of the picture. Make sure to help students focus on whatever aspect you’re learning about (symmetry, setting description, etc). You could extend this activity further by turning it into a writing project. …Or just color it and have fun! Here’s the free printable PDF: Finish the Drawing- Christmas 1 Happy holidays & Merry Christmas!
Click here for more fun and free Christmas/Winter stuff for kids!
More practice for reading circle graphs/pie charts… with a holiday twist! It deals with determining the greatest and least in the data set, subtraction and addition. So without further ado, here’s my free worksheet for kids: Tracking Toys- Christmas Graphing page
I love finding ways to incorporate seasonal things into my classroom! So I made these free printable winter/Christmas activity pages to help your kids review parts of speech (nouns, verbs and adjectives) while celebrating the holiday season! Enjoy!
Click here for the free printable grammar activities (PDF): page 1 page 2 page 3
Click here to see more fun (and FREE!) Christmas/Winter activities for kids!
When it gets close to Christmas and winter break, it gets tough to help students stay focused. So here’s one winter language arts activity that will help you review some grammar while celebrating winter holidays! Click here for the free printable PDF: Grammatical Poetry- Winter
Here’s what the page looks like:
You know that there are great art lesson plans and blogs out there. But where to start? Let me tell you about some of the best ones I’ve seen (in no particular order):
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Getting Santa to give you the exact present you want is tricky business. Do this with your class and see who’s got it all figured out! Fun writing project for the holidays!
Click here for the free PDF worksheet: How to get what you want from Santa.
Merry Christmas!
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