20 celebrations this holiday season besides Christmas

Explore how other religions and cultures celebrate their holidays.

These Christmas seasonal pages will provide you with great resources for the Christmas holiday season. Ideas within this section include: journal activities, ornaments, craft ideas, word searches, word scrambles, recipes, colouring pages, bulletin board ideas, lesson plans, and more.

The story follows the journey of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises the joy and warmth of Christmas. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of the consequences of his selfishness. Throughout the night, Scrooge is visited by three spirits: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These spirits show him his past, present, and future, revealing the impact of his actions on others. The experiences lead Scrooge to transform into a kinder, more generous person who rediscovers the true meaning of Christmas: love, compassion, and the importance of helping others.

Educational Resources to Teach Your Students about Christmas

The Christmas season is a wonderful time to expose your young students to traditions in other cultures. While it is a religious holiday, it also embodies many cultural customs. This is a wonderful opportunity to expose your students to how other people celebrate. And of course putting a picture Santa or presents on any worksheet or activity helps children get excited and engaged. That's where a handy list of printables and clip art can become extremely useful.

Our list of resources also includes songs, a variety of lesson plans, worksheets and a complete list of teacher resources. This year, help your children embrace the true meaning of Christmas. Teach them about tradition, expose them to a variety of cultures, and use the holiday to make all your lessons fun.

Christmas is a time for sharing, singing, decorating, and enjoying the season. Experience the joy with your students, using these Christmas lesson plans, activities, printables, and skill builders. There are free worksheets, bulletin board ideas, printable art activities, literature units, and more! They will also enjoy Christmas games that you will find educational as well. You can discuss the religious and cultural meaning behind Christmas in your social studies class, create holiday crafts and decorations for art class, incorporate the seasonal theme into your math class, and read Christmas books in reading class. There is so much for your students to enjoy!

"'Tis the season for fun writing prompts! Because we all know getting students to write can be a challenge! So why not summon the inspiration of ugly Christmas sweaters, snowmen, and Santa's elves? These 18 holiday-themed prompts will engage your writers all season long!"

Christmas is right around the corner, and there are plenty of ways to bring the holiday cheer into the classroom. Education World has curated a list of resources and lesson plans teachers can use in the classroom for Christmas time.
The resources include:
- 3-D Snowflake Magnets
- Christmas Poems
- Snowman Picture Christmas Ornament
-The 12 Days of Christmas: How Much Does True Love Costs These Days?
- Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men

In this fun engineering activity, you are challenged to build a gingerbread house that meets specific design requirements.

Holiday fun!

Gingerbread men and gingerbread houses enjoy special popularity around the holidays, but many of these gingerbread activities are timeless and complement literature titles that teachers use at the beginning of school or after the holidays. It's very easy to incorporate mathematics into a study of gingerbread men, and students will enjoy the data collection activities and games while learning math skills and deepening their understanding of important mathematical concepts. Look through these math activities and add some to your repertoire. Consider broadening the gingerbread math to include measurement, games and problem solving this year.

This package has been generously provided by Zorbit's Math.

The ‘holiday slide’ in our students can be just as concerning as the dreaded ‘summer slide’. Zorbit’s offers students a fun way to keep their math skills up to snuff over the holidays and avoid this slide.

Holiday Trivia game especially for Educators. Spice up your December PD!

Many of us enjoy watching traditional year-end holiday movies and television specials. At SimpleK12 we also enjoy exchanging trivia questions about these holiday programs with our friends, families, and Teacher Learning Community members.
Over the years we’ve compiled a list of these questions and we thought you would enjoy them too. We encourage you to challenge your colleagues, students, and friends with these questions.

http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/Audio-CDs.htm "Jingle Bells" sung in Cree by Laura Burnouf. This and 3 other Christmas songs can be found on our websi...

"The week-long holiday of Kwanzaa begins on December 26 each year. Celebrate African-American and Pan-African families, communities, and cultures with Kwanzaa worksheets, printable reading, arts and crafts activities, and much more."

You can come to this site and watch Reindeer live on camera! Santa even makes appearances to feed them. Apparently you can catch elves or the Grinch from time to time as well!

You can check to see if you are on the nice list!

You can also come here to listen to Santa read stories. How cool is it to have Santa read you a bedtime story?

This would be a good creative writing or journal entry prompt for ELA as well.

This site includes resources, PD and more.

"The Jewish Education Project has curated a list of high-quality Hanukkah resources for every type of learner. With lessons and content for Early Childhood through Teens, as well as resources for addressing different learning styles, Jewish educators will find ample opportunity to write engaging lesson plans to bridge the Miracle of Hanukkah with students' modern lives."

Everything you need to learn/celebrate Hanukkah!

Action Plan: To communicate with a school in Scotland and compare Christmas
traditions in each country

"Embrace the fun over winter break with these creative activity ideas. Cut out the cards and drop them into a jar for kids to choose from.
Challenge them to complete 10 before the New Year!"

These sheets were created and designed to be used "outside" of Writing Workshop as a "Working on Writing" Daily 5 option, at a Writing Center, Creation Station, for early finishers, possibly homework, maybe even for those reluctant writers who can never think of anything to write about. Students do like a little spark when it comes to writing, and hopefully these fun sheets will do just that for the creative and imaginative writer in all our students! Here's something else kids LOVE to do...COLOR! Kids will love this eye-catching clipart and word banks, if necessary. Teachers will love that there are options for using just the front and/or the front and back. Teachers will also love that there are two line options; less lines and more lines, depending on the stage of your writers.