Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Assessment (by date, latest first)

Spark Your Students' Creativity with These Engaging Templates!

This resource offers 7 fun and engaging narrative writing templates to inspire your students' imaginations.

What's Included:

• 7 Narrative Writing Templates: A variety of templates to spark different writing styles and genres.

Benefits:

• Engaging and Fun: The templates provide a structured framework for writing while allowing for creativity.
• Improves Writing Skills: Helps students develop their storytelling abilities, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Sparks Imagination: Encourages students to think outside the box and explore different genres.
• Promotes Critical Thinking: Challenges students to analyze characters, plot, and setting.

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Escape the Snow Globe: A Narrative Writing Adventure!

Spark your students' imaginations with this exciting narrative writing activity!

They have been trapped in a snow globe!

Why?

• Snow Globe Escape! (Writing Prompt): A captivating prompt that transports students to use their creativity to describe their snow globe surroundings, explain how they got trapped, and devise a plan to escape!
• Paragraph Power: A guide to writing strong paragraphs, including clear transitions and a variety of sentence structures. This helps students structure their narratives effectively.
• Snow Globe Design: A fun worksheet where students can personalize their snow globe adventure! They can illustrate the scene inside the globe.
• Bonus Pages: Extra lined writing pages are included to accommodate longer narratives and encourage students to fully develop their escape plans!

How to use it?

• Independent Writing Activity.
• Partner Up! Pair students to brainstorm ideas and share their escape plans with each other.
• Whole-Class Brainstorm: Have students share their snow globe ideas and escape strategies as a class, sparking creative thinking and storytelling.

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Who Will Guide the Sleigh?

Dear Santa, Villains Edition

⭐Thanksgiving narrative writing: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner**⭐**

⭐Journey to the center of the Earth narrative/descriptive: Earth Layers**⭐**

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• 10 Winter Holiday Narrative Essay Picture Prompts & Planner: Engage students in narrative writing with holiday-themed picture prompts and a structured planner to develop plot, character, and setting in alignment with creative writing standards.
• Christmas Hip Hop Lyrics Analysis: Teach figurative language, rhyme schemes, and tone through an engaging analysis of hip hop lyrics, blending music and ELA standards for Grades 6-8.
• St. Nick: Informational Text Structures: Explore main ideas, text structures, and author’s purpose with this winter-themed set of informational texts designed to strengthen critical reading skills.
• Unraveling Krampus: Text Structures and Critical Analysis: Develop students’ ability to identify text structures and analyze information critically with this high-interest resource focused on the Krampus folklore.
• Informational Text Structure Coloring Sort: Combine creativity and learning as students sort and color-code winter-themed informational texts to practice identifying text structures.
• Winter Wonders: Exploring Text Features Through Snow-Themed Articles: Strengthen comprehension and analysis skills by examining text features in engaging snow-themed articles, perfect for enhancing nonfiction literacy.
• Christmas Winter Holiday Characters from Around the World Research PBL: Dive into global holiday traditions with this project-based learning activity that encourages research, critical thinking, and presentation skills.
• Holiday Figurative Language & Movie Clip Standard-Based Learning Activities: Analyze figurative language through fun, holiday-themed movie clips that align with ELA figurative language standards for middle schoolers.
• Virtual Winter Sports Exploration: Engage students in a digital exploration of winter sports, focusing on informational text comprehension and analysis for Grades 4-6.
• Analyzing Narrative Point of View Winter-Themed: Develop higher-order thinking with winter-themed narrative texts that challenge students to analyze and compare points of view using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Winter Vacation PBL: Inspire creativity and practical application with this low-prep, project-based learning activity where stude

Delve into the intriguing world of Krampus with this comprehensive ELA resource, designed specifically for upper middle school students. "Unraveling Krampus" presents a unique opportunity to explore this mythical figure through a literary lens, enhancing key reading and analysis skills.

What’s Inside:

• Five Engaging Articles on Krampus: Each article focuses on a different text structure – compare and contrast, description, problem and solution, cause and effect, and chronological order
• – providing a multifaceted view of Krampus' lore and cultural significance.
• Skill-Focused Comprehension Quizzes: After reading, students can apply their knowledge with quizzes targeting central ideas, author's purpose, inferences, summaries, and text-dependent questions.
• 15-Slide Google Slides Presentation: A visually engaging presentation to introduce or reinforce each literacy skill. These slides are interactive and tailored for upper middle school learners, perfect for both classroom and remote instruction.
• Targeted Skill Development: This resource is crafted to bolster students' abilities in identifying text structures, understanding authorial intent, drawing inferences, summarizing, and engaging with text-dependent analysis.
• Interactive Annotation and Reading Experience: Encourage active reading with annotation prompts, fostering deeper comprehension and critical thinking.

Benefits:

• Enhances Critical Thinking: Cultivates analytical skills essential for upper middle school ELA.
• Captivating Content: The mysterious and intriguing subject of Krampus keeps students engaged and curious.
• Facilitates Deeper Understanding: Helps students grasp complex concepts like text structure and author's purpose in an engaging context.
• Ready for Classroom Use: A complete, ready-to-use package that saves preparation time for busy educators.

Ideal For:

• Upper Middle School ELA Teachers
• Reading and Literacy Coaches
• Homeschool Educators
• Tutors Specializing in Advanced Literacy

Step into the captivating folklore of Krampus and transform your ELA lessons into an exciting and educational exploration. "Unraveling Krampus" not only offers a deep dive into a unique cultural phenomenon but also arms students with critical literacy skills. Add this rich, engaging resource to your educational toolkit and elevate your teaching approach today!

For lower level readers, try this resource: St. Nick: Informational Text Structures, Main Idea, Author's Purpose 5 text sets (TeachShare.com)

Unveil the world of St. Nicholas through this captivating ELA resource, specifically crafted for middle school students. "Discovering St. Nicholas" offers a rich, multifaceted learning experience, designed to enhance key literacy skills while diving into the historical and cultural aspects of this beloved figure.

What’s Inside:

• Five Comprehensive Articles: Explore the intriguing story of St. Nicholas through five meticulously written articles, each employing a different text structure – descriptive, chronological, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution.
• Interactive Comprehension Quizzes: After reading, students can test their understanding with comprehension quizzes. Questions are crafted to reinforce central/main ideas, author's purpose, inferences, summaries, and text-dependent analysis.
• 15-Slide Google Slides Presentation: Kickstart each lesson with our engaging presentation slides, designed to introduce or reinforce each focused skill. Perfect for classroom or remote learning, these slides are interactive and visually appealing.
• Skill Building Focus: This resource hones vital ELA skills such as understanding text structures, pinpointing author’s purpose, making inferences, summarizing text, and answering text-dependent questions.
• Annotation and Interactive Reading: Encourage students to engage actively with the text through annotation, fostering a deeper understanding and critical thinking.

Benefits:

• Boost Literacy Skills: Strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and critical thinking abilities.
• Cultural Insight: Dive into the historical and cultural significance of St. Nicholas, enriching students' global understanding.
• Engage and Inspire: The intriguing content about St. Nicholas keeps students interested and motivated to learn.
• Versatile Teaching Tool: Ideal for in-depth study units, literacy centers, independent work, or as supplementary material for your ELA curriculum.
• Ready-to-Use: Save valuable prep time with this ready-to-go, comprehensive package.

Ideal For:

• Middle School ELA Teachers
• Reading Specialists
• Homeschooling Parents
• Tutors focusing on Literacy and Comprehension

Transform your ELA sessions into an exciting exploration of St. Nicholas and his world. "Discovering St. Nicholas" is not just an educational journey; it's a gateway to mastering essential literacy skills while uncovering the layers of a fascinating historical figure. Add this invaluable resource to your teaching toolkit today and watch as your students' comprehension and analytical skills soar!

For higher level students, try this resource: Unraveling Krampus: Text Structures and Critical Analysis Print and Go! (TeachShare.com)

This seasonal product is absolutely perfect for teaching comprehension and encouraging higher-level thinking. It is also themed around winter/Christmas to engage students! This product includes TEN unique pages. Each page includes a reading passage, three recall questions pulled straight from the text, and one higher-level question that involves personal connection or inference.

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This bundle contains holiday & winter projects, a holiday/winter game plus a sub plan - enough projects to successfully get you to winter break and lessons ready to go when you return in January PLUS it contains a sub activity.  

This bundle has 23 projects that are highly engaging, cross-curricular, and have lots of bonuses - National Arts Standards & TEKS, literacy & cross-curricular connections & project & material variations. This is what I call a Now & Later bundle - plenty of projects for now to get you to the holiday break and more for after winter break. The sub plan & holiday ornaments include multiple one day projects for all of those unexpected schedule changes that occur this time of year. 

This bundle is in multiple PDF files and includes:

Holiday Ornaments (41 pages) 

Holiday Trees (13 pages)

Winter Holiday Art Game (24 pages)

Winter Landscapes (19 pages) 

Mosaics Sub Plan & One Day Project (57 pages)

Hot Cocoa Art Projects (26 pages)

Egyptian art projects (29 pages) 

Give yourself the gift of time this holiday season with this highly discounted bundle purchase. Ready to go lessons now & more lessons when you return from holiday break = less stress & planning. 

This bundle is in multiple PDF files and contains over 200 pages. It includes:

• Step-by-step instructions with photos for 23 projects (includes 5 holiday tree projects, 2 holiday ornaments projects, 4 day mosaic project, 4 winter landscape projects, 5 hot cocoa projects, 3 Egyptian art projects)
• Instructions & photos for one day projects (holiday ornaments & mosaics)
• Sub plan with templates & lots of bonuses
• Literacy & cross-connection connections
• Project & material variations
• National Core Arts Standards & TEKS
• Assessment ideas (holiday trees)
• Project reflection & discussion questions (holiday trees)
• Drawing guides (Egyptian art projects & hot cocoa projects ) 

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Down in the Art Room

Looking for a quick and easy art lesson that students love but is not a coloring sheet? Try this game. This roll the dice game has 2 different games - a holiday version (stocking) and a winter version (mitten), each with 2 variations.

It is super engaging and is perfect for a 1 day lesson, a no-prep sub lesson, as an assessment for students, for early finishers, or to set up as an activity for centers.

Instructions for use and instructions for assessment are included. Written assessments include version with sentence stems for English language learners and without.

So much is included with this highly engaging lesson! Included in the PDF file is:

• 2 Roll a Stocking dice game boards
• 2 Roll a Mitten dice game boards
• 2 blank Roll game boards
• 2 original printable stocking drawings (full page)
• 2 original printable mitten drawings (full page)
• Printable student instructions for use as a center or early finisher activity
• Project instructions and assessment ideas
• Assessment worksheets for elements of art & principles of design both with and without sentence stems for English language learners
• National Core Art Standards & TEKS (Texas)
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections

The game is perfect for a sub lesson for grades 2-5 (or middle school). Leave copies and dice or laminate blank game boards and let students design their own game using dry erase markers, then play the game they created.

Use the mitten game for students to practice before making their own game to play using the blank template provided.

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Down in the Art Room

13 color-coded, figurative language Santa-themed activities that include definitions, examples, and writings. Fun for learning and using figurative language! Includes: Alliteration Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Internal Rhyme Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Symbolism Writing Activity Word Search Activity Mix and Match Activity Answer Keys to Activities Use individually, small/whole group, as competitive activities and for Common Core Standards review or assessment of figurative language. Colorful Santa images to spark creativity!

53 slides of Holiday/Christmas themed cartoon pages for student authors to write and color then bind in book format. Includes: comic-like frames with black & white images directions speech/thought bubbles introduction sheet 4 Title pages animals boys elves girls gifts nativity scenes (can be removed from packet) Santa sleighs snowflakes winter homes scenes wreaths 4 "The End" pages optional lesson plan ideas peer workshopping component instructions for binding Project is excellent for increasing inferencing skills, practicing peer workshopping, using writing concepts and working on process factual/fictional statements.

20 Christmas story starters with catchy headline title areas. Includes starters such as: 1. Santa gets stuck in chimney and is saved by... 2. “Party at Mr. and Mrs. Clause’s home was the highlight of the season!” said... 3. Naught and Nice list causes a stir at... 4. Interview with Santa reveals new information about... and 16 more fun prompts! Adorned with Christmas images to color. Great for grammer and writing practice, main ideas, titles, inferencing, peer workshopping, and on-demand assessment writing.

Persuasive Writing and Decimal Math Christmas Bundle

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Math- Operations with Decimals Christmas Party Planning

This set includes 3 differentiated levels of decimals operations practice to meet the need of all your students!

Writing- Persuasive Writing Elf Job Application

This fun writing activity includes the graphic organizers, job application, and fun bulletin board display. Your students will love writing with this fun activity!

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Christmas Decimal Math Activity Differentiated Decimal Operations

Get your students in the Christmas Spirit with this fun decimal math activity! Students practice decimal operations while planning the menu for a Christmas party. Students must add, subtract, divide, and multiply decimals to plan the perfect Christmas party for Mrs. Mistletoe

Decimal math is a real world skill that students must master to find success in math. Use this real life planning activity to add some Christmas fun and allow your students meaningful decimal math practice activities!

This activity include 3 different leveled activities so every student will work at their ability!

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Key Words: Decimals, Decimal Math, Decimal Operations

Directions: Use these sheets to help students practice subitizing and array identification of objects. Subitizing is the ability to instantly and accurately recognize groups of objects between one and three items. Array identification refers to the mental counting of objects and can be assessed with arrays containing four to seven objects. These sheets should be flashed in front of a student for less than 1 second, and the student should be able to recognize the amount of objects.

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• Halloween

• Christmas

• Valentine’s Day

• St. Patrick’s Day

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Directions: Use these sheets to help students practice subitizing and array identification of objects. Subitizing is the ability to instantly and accurately recognize groups of objects between one and three items. Array identification refers to the mental counting of objects and can be assessed with arrays containing four to seven objects. These sheets should be flashed in front of a student for less than 1 second, and the student should be able to recognize the amount of objects.

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Have fun this holiday with these festive Christmas Print Your Own Stickers Pack. This printable pack includes 16 holiday inspired pages filled with adorable Christmas characters. Each sticker template is thoughtfully crafted with both colorful backgrounds and a set of the same designs without background color, ensuring easy and cost effective printing. Included is an extra sheet featuring all the festive designs on one page, as well as another sheet adorned with charming Christmas phrases. These printable stickers are perfect for a multitude of purposes, from marking assignments, homework and assessments to spreading seasonal cheer as rewards. Print these on sticker paper and let the celebrations begin. Experience the magic of the season with these charming sticker templates designed to add an extra sprinkle of joy to your Christmas festivities. Grab yours today and spread the holiday spirit in style.

Phrases used in this sticker pack:

1. Great Work!
2. You Rock!
3. Awesome Job!
4. Keep it up!
5. Well Done!
6. Super Star!
7. Fantastic!
8. Terrific!
9. Outstanding!
10. Bravo!
11. Excellent!
12. Thumbs Up!
13. Way to Go!
14. A+ Work!
15. You're Amazing!
16. Top Notch!
17. You're a Star!
18. Good Job!
19. Brilliant!
20. Impressive!
21. You're a Rockstar!
22. Keep Shining!
23. High Five!
24. Perfect!

Christmas Phrases used in this sticker pack:

1. Jingle all the Way!

2. Merry and Bright!

3. You are Magic!

4. Snow Much Fun!

5. You are a Star!

6. So Merry!

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Are you feeling excited to the Christmas? If you're searching for fun and interactive worksheets, your search ends here.

This " How Many? Christmas Math Numbers Count, Color and write" worksheets are perfect addition to bring the joy of Winter and Christmas into your classroom.

These worksheets are a cool way for students to learn counting right from the beginning. Kids will enjoy counting and being creative with coloring.

This pack includes 31 pages:

• cover page ( can be used as coloring page)
• 15 pages of activities where students can count, color and find the corresponding number.
• These same 15 pages also have space for students to count and write the number.

The best part is that these worksheets require no preparation – simply print and you're ready to go. It couldn't be easier!

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Are you feeling excited to the Christmas? If you're searching for fun and interactive worksheets, your search ends here.

This " How Many? Christmas Math Count Numbers to 20" worksheets are perfect addition to bring the joy of Winter and Christmas into your classroom.

These worksheets are a cool way for students to learn counting right from the beginning. Kids will enjoy counting and being creative with coloring.

This pack includes 21 pages:

• cover page ( can be used as coloring page)
• 20 pages of activities where students can count, color and write the number.

The best part is that these worksheets require no preparation – simply print and you're ready to go. It couldn't be easier!

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Engage your kindergarten students in an exciting math adventure with this Winter-themed Christmas Counting and Adding Fun activity! This resource is perfect for reinforcing addition skills up to 10, while keeping students entertained and eager to learn.

This Winter Math Addition With Pictures packet is perfect for the little learners. The worksheets are ideal for individual practice, group work, or even math centers. making it a valuable addition to any math curriculum.

Have the child solve each problem by counting, coloring and adding pictures. Encourage the kids to be creative with their coloring and use different colors for each addition problem.

With 21 pages, each featuring vibrant winter graphics, children will practice and enjoy addition problems from 1 to 10.

A cover page is included, to help you get your resources organized.

Easy-to-Use Worksheets, the activity pack includes user-friendly worksheets that are easy to print and implement.

I hope you will enjoy this activity with your students.

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Discover a festive and educational Christmas Math craft with our Build a Reindeer Math Activity Packet! Engage your little kids in 7 exciting math activities, including addition, subtraction, and number sense.

Each reindeer part corresponds to a specific activity, with a reindeer part displayed in the lower right-hand corner as a guide.

Here's how it works:

1. There are 7 Math Activities, featuring Addition, Subtraction, and Number Sense.
2. Each Reindeer Part is associated with a particular activity.
3. A reindeer part is displayed in the lower right-hand corner to guide students through each activity.
4. As students complete each math task, they get to color the corresponding reindeer part.
5. Once all 7 activities are completed, and the reindeer parts are colored, students can cut them out and assemble their very own festive reindeer!
6. Answer key is available

Not only is this a fun and educational project, but it also makes for an adorable bulletin board display. Watch as your students proudly showcase their completed reindeers, adding a touch of holiday spirit to your classroom!

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