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We Wish You A Merry Christmas! This collection of Christmas-related resources is sure to get you into the spirit. Find historical information and research, some neat ways to correlate the Christmas Holiday into your language arts classes, art, social studies, and many other subjects, plus some “educationally fun” ideas to use to celebrate. There are resources here for all grades. Don’t let the season pass you by without checking out these FREE resources. Be sure to check out our resources for all December holiday celebrations on our TeachersFirst Classroom Planning Calendar.
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Duckie Deck Educational Games for your Kids! - Duckie Duck
Grades
K to 2
tag(s): animals (197), christmas (58), colors (56), counting (99), dental health (17), geometric shapes (73), halloween (33), matching (23), numbers (159), painting (58), preK (163), seasons (24), snow (19), social skills (14), sorting (10)
In the Classroom
There is SO much here to explore for primary students. Share specific activities on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Find useful activities to complete as a class such as counting, seriation, or basic geometric figures. Make sure you have students operate the whiteboard, manipulating the activities themselves. Set up a learning station using this website and let your students explore. Provide this link on your class website for students (and parents) to access at home. Be sure that parents use the "i" icon so they can make game play meaningful together with their child.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Classroom Jr. - Wendy Piersall
Grades
K to 3This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (180), alphabet (76), bullying (44), christmas (58), columbus day (10), earth day (104), easter (18), fathers day (12), halloween (33), handwriting (13), holidays (116), july 4th (8), memorial day (6), mothers day (14), phonics (62), poetry (193), preK (163), presidents (87), printables (27), subtraction (145), thanksgiving (25), vocabulary (288), vocabulary development (74)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource for lesson plans and activities for your classroom. Share specific activities such as reading, handwriting, or science worksheets on your classroom website for parents to use at home with their student. Provide this link on your class website for students to use at home on a rainy/snowy day. Substitutes might find some of the activities useful as take-alongs in case lessons do not last a full period.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sparky Teaching - SparkyTeaching.com
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): christmas (58), creative writing (98), creativity (83), problem solving (150), thinking skills (14), writing prompts (63)
In the Classroom
Display one of the 365 things that make you go hmmm... prompts on your interactive whiteboard. As students enter class, have the class use Postica (reviewed here), to create web-based sticky notes on a sticky board with responses. Demonstrate and share the 10 word stories with students then challenge them to make their own 10 word story to summarize classroom reading materials, books, math processes or tips, or any other classroom topic. Be sure to check out the articles and reviews on the site for more creative thinking ideas. Use the 12 Days of Christmas activity and worksheets to sneak in some math practice around the holidays!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Engage - ReadEngage.com
Grades
3 to 6tag(s): christmas (58), digital storytelling (66), holidays (116), news (148), newspapers (38)
In the Classroom
View articles together on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Discuss the articles as a class, and have students complete accompanying activities. As you look for informational text practice for CCSS, try using some of these articles. Assign cooperative learning groups different articles to read and share their findings with the class. After students read articles, have them create magazine covers using Magazine Cover Maker reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Christmas Around the World Advent Calendar Quiz - Woodlands Junior School
Grades
1 to 5tag(s): christmas (58), counting (99), countries (48), cultures (75), holidays (116)
In the Classroom
Have this site on a classroom computer and use the calendar as a morning station. Assign a student to answer the question and then report it to the class. Use a projector and have students answer the questions whole group. You might want to start the calendar at the end of November so you will have time to open all of the days before students leave for vacation. Please note that this is a 2011 calendar but the advent calendar only has numbers 1 - 25 listed without the year so use it any anytime.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Christmas Activity Advent Calendar - Kent ICT
Grades
K to 1tag(s): christmas (58), colors (56), counting (99), keyboarding (25), preK (163)
In the Classroom
This advent calendar would be good for the classroom computers as a center to help young students build keyboarding and mouse skills. Use this on an interactive whiteboard (or projector) and ask a different student each day to choose the day and play the activity.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Gifts of Character Readalouds - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 6tag(s): christmas (58), holidays (116), independent reading (69)
In the Classroom
Mark this one in your favorites to bring out in late November, just in time for the holiday season. Or include it during a character education unit. Maybe invite some parents to volunteer as readers, modeling how adults give of their own time to support others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kids' Stories Online - Karen Wade
Grades
K to 6BEFORE submitting any stories created by your students, check with your administrator to be sure that your school allows students to submit stories to such sites.
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tag(s): christmas (58), folktales (59), holidays (116), interactive stories (25)
In the Classroom
ALL elementary students will enjoy reading the simple stories from this site. This site is ideal for the regular classroom, ESL/ELL students, learning support, and the youngest of kindergartners. Share the interactive books on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Save this site on your classroom computer for students to use as a learning center or to explore during an indoor recess. Have students try out this site on individual computers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Christmas Carol - English Language Teaching Resources - Kieran McGovern
Grades
3 to 8This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Share the video on your interactive whiteboard then have students complete quizzes on their own. Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain point of view from each of the characters in A Christmas Carol. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here). Use vocabulary from the site as a starting point for weekly spelling lists. Have students compare and contrast the video on this site to versions of the story they have already seen. Challenge groups to make comparisons using an online tool such as the site - Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Christmas Traditions
Grades
4 to 6tag(s): christmas (58)
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A Victorian Christmas - TeachersFirst
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite on your desktop and use it to add supplementary activities to your classroom before Winter Break. Many of the sites can be used as webquests, classroom activities or Learning centers. This could be a great way to mix the holidays into content, comparing today's celebrations to those of the 19th century.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Make a Victorian Cornucopia - TeachersFirst
Grades
3 to 10In the Classroom
Try this easy activity during a Christmas 'Round the World unit or as part of a study of the Victorian Era. Have students take digital pictures of the steps and include them on your class web page or wiki (with captions!) so others can try the activity at home. Make cornucopias as gifts for a visit to a local nursing home or children's home so the activity becomes a service project.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Aspects of the Antebellum Christmas - Conner Prairie
Grades
7 to 9In the Classroom
Use this website as a resource during a unit on Christmas, or while looking at the differences in American life before and after the Civil War.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dickens and Christmas - David Perdue
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Use this website as a tool during a unit on Christmas or Charles Dickens. Challenge students to create a multimedia presentation around a theme from Dickens using one of the TeachersFirst Edge reviewed multimedia tools.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Parlour Games - Old-Fashioned Living
Grades
3 to 8In the Classroom
Use this website as a resource for finding games that could bring history to life during a unit on Victorian England or Christmas. Plan a Victorian Christmas celebration with historically accurate games, food, and decorations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrate a Victorian Christmas - Victoriana Magazine
Grades
1 to 8In the Classroom
This site is especially useful as a teacher-resource in planning a series of activities centering around an historic, Victorian approach to Christmas. Use it also as the basis for an informational treasure hunt with students from upper elementary through middle school. Use this site as a resource for study of the Victorian Era.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Holiday Traditions: Ramadan Fast and EID-UL-FITR - Museum of Science and Technology
Grades
4 to 6In the Classroom
Share this link on your class website during Ramadan.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Activity TV - activitytv.com
Grades
K to 8tag(s): air (176), christmas (58), comics and cartoons (63), cooking (26), dance (21), easter (18), halloween (33), origami (13), preK (163), thanksgiving (25)
In the Classroom
Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector to accompany curriculum topics in science, art, physical education, language arts, health, or family/consumer science. Or show the videos to a class as examples for writing how-to (demonstration) speeches and/or videos done in language arts classes. Challenge students to create their own videos using a site such as SchoolTube (reviewed here). Look here also for ideas of holiday craft projects. Share the link on your class web page for students to try activities at home during breaks.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Gingerbread Man with Everything - Sprint
Grades
K to 3In the Classroom
Share the gallery and have students experiment together to learn what the tools do on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Be sure everyone knows how to SAVE their creations. Then set up a gingerbread man center for creative expression. Once students create their virtual treats, have them click to SAVE the file on the local computer. They can write stories about them in the pattern of classics: "You can't catch me...!" or in their own fantasy style. Print the illustrations or include both stories and images on your class wiki. Not sure how to make a wiki? Have no wiki worries - check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through. Another option: You could make a class book of the students' creations. For this you might want to use Mixbook reviewed here to add a professional flare.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Christmas Fun - Mrs. Robin Martin
Grades
K to 5*BE AWARE: at the time of this review, a few of the links were "under construction." However, what IS available is worth taking a look at!
In the Classroom
Incorporate fun digital activities into your interactive whiteboard or projector lessons this December. Make a shortcut to links from this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. Read Jan Brett's book "Gingerbread Baby" and then have students create virtual gingerbread cookies from the variety of sites on this blog. Science units covering the states of matter, weather, or water cycle can include a fun diversion to cutting out virtual snowflakes. Schools that celebrate Christmas will enjoy projecting an advent calendar daily and seeing what surprises each new day brings.General Tips and Reminders: Fully preview the links on this site at school before introducing them to students. Some sites may be down or not accessible on your school network. There is some advertising on a few sites. Students may have the opportunity to create virtual cards. These require users to enter email addresses directly into the site. Advise your students to print their work rather than submitting personal emails. Or use a class email (rather than your personal email, create a class gmail account for all students to use).
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