10th Grade Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Resources (by date, oldest first)

This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey of Christmas Around The World with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

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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!

Check out some of my other HOLIDAY resources:

December Life Skills Morning Work - Holiday Edition - BUNDLE

Holiday Shopping Task Cards

Product Label Comprehension - Holiday Edition

December Life Skills Morning Work - Holiday Edition - Paper

December Life Skills Morning Work - Holiday Edition - Digital

Holiday Shopping Task Cards/ Worksheets - Canadian Dollar

Every year there's that ONE holiday toy that captures the hearts of kids and sends parents off to the store to grab the last one. This mini unit covers the history of Christmas toys through four decades (some of which you will remember!). The unit is divided into three parts and relies heavily on student research. The parts can be done at your own pace over the course of a week or over several weeks.

Part One

-Includes two reading passages, one about the history of holiday gift giving and one about the rise of the toy industry.

-Research Project: Students are given four worksheets, one for each of the decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s), and they must research toy trends for each decade

Part Two

-All of part two is in the included PowerPoint. This covers holiday advertising, starting with the early days of ads, through the department store catalog, and into modern television commercials.

-There are three links to toy commercials from the 70s, 80s, and 90s to watch with students

Part Three

-In part three, students will conduct an interview with an older friend or family member about their own holiday toy memories

-Final Project: Students pick one of three final projects to complete. Each project relates back to a different part of the unit.

This unit is geared towards a classroom, but is easily adapted to a homeschooler...in fact, I originally created it for mine! Every research activity is done solo and the PowerPoint can easily be used just for one or a handful of kiddos. This is also easily adaptable, in case you want to change anything for your students, but is no-prep, ready to go, as it is!

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Looking for other activities for older kids?

Winter Activities for Older Kids - No Prep

Christmas Around the World - Who is/What is Cards

Middle School Vocabulary Worksheet {plain and themed versions}

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These Who is/What is Cards feature Christmas figures and traditions from around the world. Each page features a half-page card with a reading passage about the holiday and a half-page fact card. Perfect for use with Christmas around the world worksheets, games, and units or as supplemental posters for your classroom. Print on cardstock and laminate to use again and again.

Included:

La Befana

Christkind

St. Lucia

Christmas Tree

Mistletoe

Poinsettia

Three Kings Day

Tree of Light

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Winter Activities for Older Kids - No Prep

Holiday Toy Trends Mini Research Unit

Middle School Vocabulary Worksheet {plain and themed versions}

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Use these Christmas Themed Google Slides Digital Lessons to teach time skills in your special education classroom including: AM/PM, digital time, analog time, reading a schedule, and elapsed time (finding end time)! The whole group lessons follow a student, Anna, as she practices time skills over Winter Break in December!! Perfect for teaching strategies and providing multiple practice opportunities to your math groups! This product is meant to be taught using an interactive whiteboard.

How Do I Use This Resource?

There are 5 whole group math lessons to teach time telling math strategies. Use your own resources for small group/individual practice, or purchase the Christmas Telling Time Bundle!

These engaging worksheets are great for high school and transition age students working on the following skills:

Life Skills

Functional Math

Telling Time

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Use these Holiday/ Christmas themed Google Slides to teach money math skills in your special education classroom including: counting mixed bills, finding the total, change back, do you have enough?, Next dollar up and comparing prices (which costs more/less)! The whole group lessons follow a student, Anna, as she goes Holiday Shopping for her family! Perfect for teaching strategies and providing multiple practice opportunities to your math groups! This product is meant to be taught using an interactive whiteboard.

How Do I Use This Resource?

There are 6 whole group math lessons to teach money math strategies. Use your own resources for small group/individual practice, or purchase worksheets/workbooks below!

These engaging worksheets are perfect for high school and transition age special education students needing support and instruction in the following concepts:

• Community Based Instruction (CBI)
• Functional Life Skills
• Consumer Math
• Money Math

Looking for more Life Skills Math?

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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

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Use this Christmas ornament writing activity to decorate your classroom tree and to get your AVID (or any content area) students in the holiday spirit! Students will choose 1 of the 8 mandala ornaments to decorate or create their own with the blank version provided. Then they will write about their greatest gift, cut and glue that to their ornament!

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What's Included:

• A PDF Document with 8 Mandala Ornaments for students to choose from
• Ornaments for responding to "My greatest gift is..."
• One blank ornament for students to create their own mandalas

Directions:

• Students will choose a mandala ornament to decorate or use the blank one provided to make their own.
• After decorating their ornaments, students will respond to the prompt, "My greatest gift is..." using the writing-lined ornament.
• Next, students will cut out their mandala and writing ornament and glue the lined writing ornament to the back of their mandala ornament.
• Last, laminate and cut them out, hole punch the top, and add a string! Hang them on your classroom tree.

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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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Check out other winter resources HERE!

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Are you looking for an engaging Reindeer in Disguise Take Home or Class College Research Project for your AVID students this Christmas season? This how-to disguise a Reindeer hands-on, interactive project is the perfect engaging twist on your college research projects! You can print or use the digital template and allow students to copy and paste images to disguise their reindeer in Google Slides.

Christmas will be here soon and the reindeer are getting nervous for their duties! Our students will be able to help keep them safe and away from all their stressful duties. Your students will love creating and writing about their reindeer and the college that it hides at to stay in disguise.

This resource includes everything you need to create an adorable bulletin board project for your AVID students!

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Directions:

• Print out the reindeer template or use the digital template provided.
• Students will color or cut-out designs, use construction paper and crafts to disguise their reindeer OR find digital images to copy and paste to the digital reindeer.
• Students disguise their reindeer in college gear from the college they are interested in researching.
• Students then answer the 18 college research questions about the college of their choice.
• Lastly, students write a story naming their reindeer and describing a day in the life of their first day of college as he/she hides from their Santa duties. Their paper should also include 5 pieces of information from your college research.

What is included in this product?

• Reindeer Template (Printable or Digital)
• Project Requirements
• Career Research Websites List
• 18 Career Research Questions
• "I am NOT a reindeer" writing pages

Your students will love getting creative with this fun Reindeer in Disguise Writing Craft.

**Are you worried about prepping these activities? Don't be! This mini-unit is quick and easy to prep...**Just print the student pages and you'll be ready for a fun and engaging project!

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Use this Spanish Christmas ornament writing activity to decorate your classroom tree and to get your Spanish students in the holiday spirit! Students will choose 1 of the 8 mandala ornaments to decorate or create their own with the blank version provided. Then they will practice their Spanish writing skills while writing about their greatest gift and responding to the prompt, "Mi mejor regalo es." Afterward, they can cut and glue that to their ornament and hang them on your class Christmas tree or bulletin board!

What's Included:

• A PDF Document with 8 Mandala Ornaments for students to choose from
• Ornaments for responding to "Mi mejor regalo es..."
• One blank ornament for students to create their own mandalas

Directions:

• Students will choose a mandala ornament to decorate or use the blank one provided to make their own.
• After decorating their ornaments, students will respond to the prompt, "Mi mejor regalo es..." using the writing-lined ornament.
• Next, students will cut out their mandala and writing ornament and glue the lined writing ornament to the back of their mandala ornament.
• Last, laminate and cut them out, hole punch the top, and add a string! Hang them on your classroom tree or bulletin board display.

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Your students will love and hate the It's not fair Game! This game includes questions about vocabulary and culture - how do the French celebrate Christmas and the holiday season? To play, open the gameboard and let students pick questions. If they answer correctly, they can keep the points or pass them to another team - but they won't know how many points they've "won" until they make their decision.

This item contains instructions for the game and four PowerPoint game boards - two in English (multiple choice and open answer versions), two in French (multiple choice and open answer versions). The boards are fully editable, so adjust the questions and point values as needed for your classes.

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This French reading comprehension activity will entertain your students while teaching them about French culture and the holiday season.  It is suitable for novice-high/intermediate-low students with teacher guidance and higher level students to work independently. Père Fouettard is tired of always being the bad guy. So this year he makes a deal - HE will be delivering the presents and getting to be part of the joy of the season! What could possibly go wrong? It turns out, quite a bit!  Kids are scared, nobody trusts the new guy, and nobody is quite sure exactly how the presents will get delivered.

This item includes:

• 5 page story with glossary of less-frequent words
• Comprehension questions in English
• Comprehension questions in French
• Illustrate the story activity
• Who/what/where/when/why/how activity
• Answer Key
• infographic about Christmas in France
• resources for learning more about the holiday

This short story is appropriate for intermediate and advanced classes - there are lots of examples of the passé composé and imparfait. 

What other teachers have said about this short story and French reading comprehension activity:

"This resource adds a specific flavor and cultural experience to the normal holiday information. My kids loved learning about this side of the Christmas tradition."

"One of my favorites. Students enjoyed this so much. Looking forward to using again next year. Merci!"

"Thank you for this reading activity with follow up worksheets. It allowed an opportunity to discuss cultural elements as well as a holiday reading."

Related Products

• Christmas in France - magazine and activities - Noel en France

• Digital Breakout - French Holidays

• Joyeux Noel - digital breakout game for int/adv French learners

• Petit Papa Noel - activities to accompany the song

Make learning about La Navidad fun and interesting with this no-prep Spanish digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams. 

This breakout explores the topic of la Navidad. While the breakout itself is in English, most of the sites the students will need to solve the puzzles are in Spanish. It would be appropriate for 2nd year and later Spanish classes.

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles without being 100% focused! 

Topics in this game include:

• las Posadas
• la Misa del Gallo
• los Reyes Magos
• Tamales
• las Velitas

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

Related Products

• Cinco de Mayo digital breakout

• Dia de los muertos - Digital breakout game

It is also included in the bundle:

• Digital Escape games - Spanish Bundle

Are you looking for a way to teach about the holiday season in France with your students? Would you like your students to learn about the customs and traditions of a French Christmas but you aren't sure where to start? This full-cover printable pdf magazine will help! Share it with your students online, project it to a screen, or print copies (note that there are many photos and backgrounds, it will print best in color).

The pdf magazine has 26 pages of readings and photos so your students can learn about the holiday while staying in the target language. Topics included in the magazine are:

• Key vocabulary words of the season
• How to find the perfect gift
• Food specialties of the season
• Christmas songs
• Shopping at the Christmas markets
• How to spend the holiday like a French person
• Père Noël, Père Fouettard, and Saint Nicolas - what's the difference?
• Recipes of the season
• Important dates
• How to make Crêpes
• Winter in France
• Santons
• A letter to Père Noël
• New Year's Eve celebrations

Once you're read the magazine, there is a variety of student activities:

• Compare and contrast: Christmas in the US vs. France
• Shopping for gifts
• Les Vitrines
• Which one is it: Père Fouettard, Père Noël or Saint Nicolas?
• Resolutions for the new year
• Letter to Père Noël
• Design a santon
• Vocabulary matching activity
• True or False

Other holiday products

• Digital Breakout - French Holidays

• Joyeux Noel - digital breakout game for int/adv French learners

• Les Aventures du Père Fouettard - a story for int/adv French learners

• Petit Papa Noel - activities to accompany the song

• Digital game to practice French Christmas vocabulary

• Le Nouvel An - comprehensible input lesson for French learners

Get a full year's worth lessons and activities for second year French. These ready-to-use French unit resources and readings include everything you need to teach and practice the typical things taught in a level two French course.

Teaching from a textbook can get boring, and sometimes textbooks simply don't give enough practice to learn vocabulary and grammar. Maybe you would rather focus on communication, and you plan to use a comprehensible input approach, but your textbook doesn't really work for that. This French curriculum bundle will give you everything you need to have structure, variety, and practice in your level two French classes.

This French curriculum Bundle Includes:

• 8 full units using comprehensible input - cover the same material as most second year French textbooks but using the language with repetition and context.
• 9 Digital games to practice vocabulary and grammar
• 4 Digital escape games to practice the imparfait and passé composé as well as cultural topics.
• 2 sets of Interactive notebook pages for some of the biggest grammar points in second year.
• 2 Hidden images games to practice verb conjugations
• 104 different reading activities - use for free voluntary reading or read as a class! A variety of topics so there is something for every interest.
• Activities to accompany all 13 episodes of the French educational video series Extr@! - comprehension activity printables and "the Unfair Game" for each episode.
• 3 Class games to play to practice direct and indirect object pronouns
• 13 movie talk activities to practice listening and retelling using narratives.
• 5 targeted grammar lessons to learn the passé composé, imparfait and more!

Use the full units as the backbone of your instruction, and the digital games will give students extra practice with the vocabulary and grammar points. For fun, you can spice it up a bit with an escape game or a reading activity.

The French bundle includes these items:

Comprehensible Input Curriculum Units

Each unit includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, teacher planning guide, assessments, and a video version of the unit story.

1 – La rentrée

2 - Je me prépare

3 – Le weekend passé

4 – Quand j’était petit

5 – Le Meilleur

6 – Le voyage

7 – Le futur

8 - Les problèmes mondiaux

Targeted grammar lessons

Each targeted grammar lesson includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, reading based on the grammar lesson and answer key.

Imparfait

Passé composé with avoir

Passé composé with être

Reflexive verbs

Negatives

Digital escape games

Perdu au Louvre

Prisoner in the Bastille

Les Bijoux de Versailles

Le Trésor de Chambord

Extra activities

Each activity packet includes vocabulary activities, comprehension questions, fill in the blank activities and more!

Episodes 1-13 (printable)

Unfair game 1-13 (PowerPoint)

Interactive notebooks:

Past and compound tense verbs

Irregular verbs

Digital games

Imparfait verbs Hidden pictures

Passe compose hidden pictures

Vandertramp verbs

lire/dire/ecrire

direct object pronouns

direct and indirect object pronouns

Connaitre/savoir

Reflexive verbs

Vouloir/pouvoir/devoir

Y and en

Passé composé or imparfait ?

Passé composé - avoir or être ?

Movie talk

Movie talks include story script, pre and post-viewing activities and answer key.

Sock world

Decaf

Laundry Quandary

Wishgranter

Shoot

Print your guy

Mezcaliente

Beyond the Lines

Egyptian Pyramids

Spellbound

Fauche

Heavenly Appeals

In a heartbeat

Reading activities - each reading activity includes reading with glossary, comprehension questions and links to websites and videos for extension activities.

2017 Presidential election

2022 presidential election

2023 protests

Alain Robert

Amaury Guichon

Andree peel

Animals in Space

Antoine Griezmann

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ants

Arc de Triomphe

Arsène Lupin

Artificial intelligence

Bazar de la Charite

Beavers

Black swallow of death

CRISPR

Cathares

Chambon sur lignon

Chameleon

Chartres Cathedral

Chunnel

Cinema

Claude Monet

Coco Chanel

Coeur de Pirate

Concorde

Coronavirus

Dangerous Animals

Data Forensics

Ebola

Edith Piaf

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Elephants in Danger

Euro song contest

Foie gras

French Foreign Legion

French government

GIGN

Gevaudan

Grippe de 1918

Grumier

Guerre du PSL

Guerre du chocolat

Guillotine

Haiti

Hockey

Hotel de glace

Jeanne de Clisson

Joan of Arc

Joseph Bologne

Josephine Baker

Knights templar

LHC

La femme sauvage

Leonardo da Vinci

Loire valley chateaux

MOF

Macron

Man in the Iron Mask

Man who sold Eiffel Tower

Manger les insectes

Maple Syrup heist

Marie Antoinette

Marie Curie

Mbappe

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Metier Explosif

Millau Viaduct

Mont Saint-Michel

Nancy Wake

Natural Disasters

Nina Simone

Notre Dame

Oradour sur glane

Pandas

Parkour

Pasteur

Pere Fouettard

Peste Noire

Piton de la Fournaise

Prehistoric cave art

Princess Grace

Père Lachaise

Queen Brunehaut

Roller coasters

Saint-Malo

Sapeurs

Sharks

Sidney Crosby

Sloths

Social media

Sous Paris

Spiders

Stromae

Summer Sports

TGV

Tacos

Tardigrades

Timothée Chalamet

Tirailleurs Senegalais

Tour de France

Truffles

Un diner spécial

Urban experiment

Versailles

Vie troglo

Webb telescope

World cup

Zidane

Zombies attaquent

Do your AP French students need practice reading non-fiction in order to prepare for the test? Are you looking for interesting reading activities that can be done as class readings, independent reading, or free voluntary reading? Are you doing plenty of fun stories in your CI-driven French class, but you'd like to expose students to some less-common vocabulary or non-fiction readings? These readings are perfect for your intermediate and advanced French classes, levels 2 (with scaffolding) and up (more independently).

This bundle includes ALL of the intermediate and advanced French readings from the store. The price will go up as new items are added, but once you purchase you'll receive all of the new readings for free!

Most are non-fiction, but there are a few fiction stories mixed in. Science, culture, biographies, current events, cultural readings - a little bit of everything in one place! There are currently 118 different readings - enough to keep your students busy for the entire year. As new readings are added to the store, they will be added to this bundle as well.

Each reading includes:

• a printable article
• comprehension questions
• answer key
• additional resources

ACTFL performance descriptors:

• Comprehends simple stories, routine correspondence, short descriptive texts or other selections within familiar contexts. (int)
• Generally comprehends connected sentences and much paragraph-like discourse. (int)
• Comprehends information-rich texts with highly predictable order.(int)
• Comprehends paragraph discourse such as those found in stories, straightforward literary works, personal and work-related correspondence, written reports or instructions, oral presentations (news), anecdotes, descriptive texts, and other texts dealing with topics of a concrete nature. (adv)

A set of French reading comprehension units with readings and activities about French cultural topics.

Each unit deals with a different aspect of French culture. Students will learn about the French school system, how the Métro works, the role of sports in France, French cuisine, how French housing looks and how people find a place to live and more!

The units include readings (some in both French and English, see the product description for each one) and activities that have students doing real-world tasks. Some of the units have colorful vocabulary posters that you can project digitally or print out for decorations.

Just in time for the winter season, this French winter activities bundle will let you celebrate the cold weather and holiday season. Includes a variety of printable and digital/distance items. Whether you teach level 1 or advanced French, there will be something for your students in this bundle.

Included in the French wintern bundle you will find a nice variety of short stories, non-fiction readings, games and activities. It’s a mix of print and digital items - so if you’ve never tried assigning a Google drive or Boom cards activity before, this can be a way to try it out.

Short Story:

• Les aventures du Père Fouettard - a printable short story for Christmas. Père Fouettard is tired of always being the bad guy. What happens when he changes roles with Père Noël?

Digital activities:

• Gingerbread digital stickers - A set of digital stickers that you can use wherever you like - One Note, Google drive, or any digital platform that allows png images.

• Llama digital stickers - A set of digital stickers that you can use wherever you like - One Note, Google drive, or any digital platform that allows png images.

• Llama holiday agenda slides - 8 digital backgrounds that you can use to organize your daily lessons, announcements and agenda.

• Winter agenda slides - 8 digital backgrounds that you can use to organize your daily lessons, announcements and agenda.

• Christmas vocabulary digital game - Includes 30 vocabulary words about the holiday - a fun, no-prep way to learn and practice the vocabulary.  Both a PowerPoint/PDF/Google drive version and a Boom version are included.

• Noël Digital magnetic poetry - A Google drive activity with “magnets” of French words that students can move around to make their own poems with a Christmas theme.

• Winter Digital magnetic poetry - A Google drive activity with “magnets” of French words that students can move around to make their own poems with a winter theme.

• French holidays digital escape game - A fun and challenging game for your students!  They will learn about some of the different holidays in France and how they are celebrated   No need to prep - just share the URL with your students!

• French Noël escape game - A self-correcting escape game using Boom cards that will have your students practicing vocabulary, reading, listening and writing.

Non-fiction readings:

• Le Hockey - learn about the sport of hockey in this reading and activity unit.
• Le Noël CI lesson - a non-fiction lesson using comprehensible input to teach your students about the Christmas holiday and how it is celebrated in France.
• Le Nouvel An CI lesson - a non-fiction lesson using comprehensible input to teach your students about the New Year's holiday and how it is celebrated in France.
• Le Noël en France - a full-cover printable pdf magazine about the holiday and different aspects of its celebration.

Song:

• Petit Papa Noël - activities to help your students understand the song

BONUS:

As a special part of this bundle, you will also receive a copy of the Unfair Game for Christmas! It includes an English and French version of the game, multpile choice and open-ended versions - a game your students will love to hate!

Make learning about Spanish culture and history interesting with this no-prep digital escape game bundle.  The games include access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams.

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles without being 100% focused! 

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

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