Less than $5 Elementary School Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Games (by date, oldest first)

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This is a NO PREP, print and go resource.

This download includes:

• 18 Hanukkah scavenger hunt fact cards

Level 1 – Write in the answer

- 2 answer sheets with 9 questions each

Level 2 – Cut & paste

- 2 answer sheets with 9 questions each

• Follow up worksheet with 10 questions
• Total of 5 worksheets and 46 questions
• Teacher guide
• Teacher answer key

With this interactive scavenger hunt students will learn fun and interesting Hanukkah related facts like: Did you know Hanukkah is also known as the festival of lights? Or Did you know there is 16 different ways to spell Hanukkah? The scavenger hunt includes 18 fact cards and asks students to read the cards closely for information to fill in the answer sheets. Fact cards are numbered and provide all the information needed for students.

This scavenger hunt will still work broken into shorter segments for multiple lessons or a shorter activity.

This scavenger hunt also works well as a scoot game!

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Christmas Color by CVC Word puzzles covering short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each color by word puzzle features 4 to 5 CVC words for a vowel family in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

Words Included:

Short a - tag, fan, cap, pan

Short e - bed, gem, pen, wet

Short i - win, lid, pig, pit, dip

Short o - pot, hot, box, top, dog

Short u - tub, gum, bug, sun

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Just like my Christmas Bingo, this junior version is a complete set with bingo caller cards, card markers in four different designs, and 30 unique full-page bingo cards. Perfect for learning symbols of Christmas, practicing holiday vocab, for a fun game during a classroom party or for speech therapy, young learners and ESL students! These are ready to cut apart and go, or laminate and use again and again.

Introduce the Christmas words used in the bingo game before you play with the Winter Holiday Vocabulary Word Wall Cards.

Have a range of ages playing along? Check out my Christmas Bingo set. These cards have more bingo spaces, smaller words, and smaller markers, but have the exact same images so you can use them together with the junior set.

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These Christmas themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20, as well as matching numbers and pictures up to 10.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 2 piece number and counting object match
• 3 piece number, word and object match

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Counting to 10
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

This product is included in the following bundle:

Holiday Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

Where is the present? This Christmas alphabet game is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's the Present? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a present is hidden behind a Christmas tree. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the present is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the present is behind the tree, then the present must be hidden again to play further. If the present is not behind the tree, then the poem is chanted again with a new letter. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

More Alphabet Centers and Activities

Hands On Alphabet Mats

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this set of first grade sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words

• Writing sight words

This product contains all 41 First Grade Sight Words:

after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this set of preprimer or pre-k sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This packet contains all 40 Preprimer Sight Words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this set of primer or kindergarten grade sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 52 Primer sight words:

all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this set of second grade sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words

• Writing sight words

This product contains all 46 Second Grade Sight Words:

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this set of third grade sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

This sight word set includes sight words printed on Christmas tree cards. They are perfect for a Christmas themed sight word or word work center!

Ways To Use

• Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Place a set of cards in ABC order.

This product contains all 107 Zeno Sight Words:

This trick word set includes sight words printed on Christmas tree cards. They are perfect for a Christmas themed sight word or word work center!

Ways To Use

• Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Place a set of cards in ABC order.

This product contains all Level K Trick Words:

This trick word set includes sight words printed on Christmas tree cards. They are perfect for a Christmas themed sight word or word work center!

Ways To Use

• Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Place a set of cards in ABC order.

This product contains all 84 Level 2 Trick Words:

again, against, always, America, animal, answer, August, away, beautiful, both, bought, breakfast, brother, carry, change, city, country, couple, cousin, daughter, December, different, done, early, earth, eight, enough, every, family, father, favorite, February, full, goes, great, head, house, January, July, knew, know, large, laugh, learn, lose, Monday, mother, move, night, ocean, often, once, only, picture, piece, place, please, pretty, pull, ready, right, Saturday, school, shall, something, son, special, sure, talk, thought, Thursday, together, tomorrow, trouble, Tuesday, use, used, walk, Wednesday, whose, won, world, young

This trick word set includes sight words printed on Christmas tree cards. They are perfect for a Christmas themed sight word or word work center!

Ways To Use

• Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
• Place a set of cards in ABC order.

This product contains all Level 1 Trick Words:

Practice matching shapes and simple counting with this fun Christmas themed card game.

Decorate the Tree!

1. Give each student one Christmas Tree mat.

2. Shuffle the shape cards and place them face down in the middle of the students.

3. The first student will draw a card and place that many of the particular shape on their tree. If the “Give a gift” card is drawn, then if the student has enough shapes on their tree, then they are to give one to each of the other players.

4. When all the cards are gone, the game is done.

The playing mats and game cards are available in color and in black and white. Use shape blocks to place the correct shape(s) on the tree.

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set of cards are for Fry words 1-100.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all of Fry's first 100 sight words:

a, about, all, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, called, can, come, could, day, did, do, down, each, find, first, for, from, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, like, long, look, made, make, many, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, oil, on, one, or, other, out, part, people, said, see, she, sit, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, time, to, two, up, use, was, water, way, we, were, what, when, which, who, will, with, words, would, write, you, your

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set of cards are for Fry words 101-200.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all of Fry's second 100 sight words:

These Christmas sight word cards make a fun Christmas literacy center or Christmas sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set of cards are for Fry words 201-300.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own Christmas tree card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all of Fry's third 100 sight words:

Use this Christmas-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Christmas spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "It is acceptable to play Christmas music after Halloween."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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AVID Winter Activity - Build a Costa Snowman Digital Resource: This digital lesson and activity is the perfect Winter or Christmas resource for building critical thinking skills in your AVID classroom! Use it as an inquiry icebreaker activity, a supplemental lesson for Costa's Level of Thinking, an inquiry lesson, a Fun Friday activity, or even for your Christmas/Winter party!

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Directions:

• This 18 interactive Google Slides presentation first goes over Costa's level of thinking with details and examples for all 3 levels.
• Then students will follow directions on drawing or creating their own Costa snowman while answering leveled questions on the way!
• After students create their snowmans and answer the Costa questions about them, they will write their own questions based on a winter scene!

What's Included:

• Essential questions slide
• 7 Costa's Level of Thinking teach slides
• 7 direction slides with step-by-step directions on how to create a Costa snowman and leveled questions for students to answer about their snowmen
• 1 slide with a winter scene where students will write their own leveled questions!

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