TeachersFirst's New Year's Resources
The New Year is a wonderful time for setting goals, reflecting, looking ahead, and making some resolutions! This collection of reviewed resources offers ideas to incorporate New Year's activities in the regular curriculum. Whether you focus on a specific activity or simply share these for enrichment outside of class, your students will find some refreshing new ideas.

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All About the Holidays - PBS Learning Media
Grades
K to 12tag(s): 100thday (9), back to school (55), chinese new year (5), christmas (38), cinco de mayo (10), easter (10), elections (81), fathers day (14), fire prevention (16), flag day (5), halloween (33), hanukkah (12), hispanic (36), holidays (194), july 4th (12), Juneteenth (22), kwanzaa (12), labor day (5), martin luther king (46), new years (5), pi (28), presidents (136), rosh hashanah (13), st patricks day (12), thanksgiving (24), valentines day (11), veterans (27), women (152), womenchangemaker (37), womens suffrage (52), yom kippur (15)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for teaching material during holidays throughout the year. For each holiday use a bookmarking site such as Wakelet, reviewed here, to organize and share lesson materials, videos, and game sites for your students. Instead of worksheets or written reports, enhance student learning by asking them to create infographics sharing information about any holiday. Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here, is a very easy to use tool that includes pre-made templates. Don't keep student learning to yourself, share their knowledge through holiday podcasts for your entire school and community to hear. Spotify for Podcastors (was Anchor), reviewed here, features many kid-friendly tools to get you started with creating and sharing podcasts.Celebrating the Holidays with a Kid's Heart - Roxie Carroll - A Kids Heart
Grades
K to 4This site includes advertising.
tag(s): christmas (38), earth day (61), fall festival (6), hanukkah (12), holidays (194), july 4th (12), martin luther king (46), new years (5), preK (286), rosh hashanah (13), st patricks day (12), valentines day (11), yom kippur (15)
In the Classroom
Need to find quick activities for a special holiday in your class? Find ready-made activities to use during center time, class celebrations, or special reward time on your interactive whiteboard. After school programs can easily use activities for all different interests during holiday times.New Year's Day Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): new years (5)
In the Classroom
Use these resources to connect New Years and related "new" celebrations to your curriculum in almost any subject or select one or two ideas to highlight along with your regular lessons. Note that a new school year is also a good time for resolutions!DLTK's Custom Chore Chart - DLTK
Grades
K to 6tag(s): behavior (43), charts and graphs (171), preK (286)
In the Classroom
Create charts for a variety of needs. Charts always come in handy for students who struggle to stay on task or to complete assignments. Charts are a fun and tactile way for students to monitor their success and stay on target with responsibilities. Use a chart system to teach organization and self monitoring for things such as homework, chores or daily jobs, morning or end of day tasks and behavior, backpack organization, reading books, math skills, and whatever else you or your students can "chart." Use this tool in the beginning of a new school year to help with expectations or recording. Special ed and gifted teachers will want to have students create their own charts to take ownership for individual goals. This is also a great tool for students to use to record their success for specific New Year's resolutions. This is definitely a link you want to list on your class website for parents to use at home.New Year's Resolutions - Myvocabulary.com
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): new years (5)
In the Classroom
Share the puzzles on your interactive whiteboard or projector or make them available as links on your teacher public page. Replace pen and paper and have students write a blog entry about their New Year's Resolution using 6-10 of the words from this theme. Use Telegra.ph, reviewed here. With Telegra.ph a unique URL is provided, and you just click on an icon to upload images from your computer, add a YouTube or Vimeo, or X (formerlyTwitter) links. If you'd like to make this a bit more challenging, modify learning by encouraging students (or groups) to create their own illustrated dictionaries of terms using a tool such as Book Creator, reviewed here, or Bookemon, reviewed here. As you add more vocabulary lists during the year, have them select their favorite 6-10 terms from each list to add to their "book."Six Calendars of Special Days and Festivals - Woodlands Junior School( Project Britain)
Grades
K to 8tag(s): calendars (37), christmas (38), easter (10), holidays (194), st patricks day (12), valentines day (11)