Less than $5 12th Grade Winter Lesson

New Year's Write the Room: Celebrate the New Year with this engaging printable write-the-room activity! Use this writing activity in your AVID classroom, ELA, or any content area. This activity features 8 unique labels you can display around your room, each representing a letter to spell out "New Year." These labels come with thought-provoking prompts that encourage students to reflect on their goals and aspirations for the upcoming year. The recording sheet allows students to organize and document responses. Make the transition into the New Year a memorable one!

Directions:
Students will complete the New Year’s prompts around the room and record their responses on the provided recording sheet.

What's Included:

• 8 classroom labels each representing a letter to spell out "New Year" with prompts that encourage students to reflect on their goals and aspirations for the upcoming year.
• A recording sheet with a chart where students write their responses next to the corresponding letter.

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This may be the most meaningful and memorable lesson you teach in December!

This product features an engaging "Christmas Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, collaborating, speaking, and moving around in one class period! In this activity, they must choose between 5 different quotes from famous figures about Christmas and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective about the holiday. I use this lesson every year during the week leading up to Christmas vacation to make sure that my students take some time out of their hectic lives to consider what Christmas truly means not to society, not to others, but to them.

Product includes:

• Comprehensive lesson plan
• "Christmas Talk" Sheet for students to fill out
• 5 Corresponding "Christmas Quote" signs to hang up around your room

I hope that this lesson is as meaningful and successful in your class as it is in mine!

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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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This may be the most meaningful and memorable lesson you teach in December!

This product features an engaging "Christmas Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, collaborating, speaking, and moving around in one class period! In this activity, they must choose between 5 different quotes from famous figures about Christmas and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective about the holiday. I use this lesson every year during the week leading up to Christmas vacation to make sure that my students take some time out of their hectic lives to consider what Christmas truly means not to society, not to others, but to them.

Product includes:

• Comprehensive lesson plan
• "Christmas Talk" Sheet for students to fill out
• 5 Corresponding "Christmas Quote" signs to hang up around your room

I hope that this lesson is as meaningful and successful in your class as it is in mine!

___________________________________________________________________

Also, check out more great holiday products by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Figurative Language Lesson Plan

⭐The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan

⭐The Gift of the Magi & The Necklace Compare/Contrast Essay

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⭐Christmas Song Figurative Language Powerpoint Presentation

⭐Figurative Language in Christmas Songs - 32 Task Cards

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⭐We Didn’t Start the Fire Activity

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After Winter Break Write the Room: Use this writing activity in your AVID classroom, ELA, or any content area. Allow students to reflect on their winter break with this engaging printable write-the-room activity! This activity features 11 unique labels you can display around your room, each representing a letter to spell out "Winter Break." These labels come with thought-provoking prompts that encourage students to reflect on their winter break experiences! The recording sheet allows students to organize and document responses. Make the transition back from winter break a memorable one!

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Directions:
Students will complete the winter break prompts around the room and record their responses on the provided recording sheet.

What's Included:

• 11 classroom labels each representing a letter to spell out "Winter Break" with prompts that encourage students to reflect on their experiences during the break.
• A recording sheet with a chart where students write their responses next to the corresponding letter.

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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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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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