3rd Grade Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Activities (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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Where is the present? This Christmas sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the third sight word list.
• Present cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words 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 sight word they think the present is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the present is behind the Christmas tree, then the present must be hidden again to play further. If the present is not behind the Christmas tree, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

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

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

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -ide -ight -ike -ind -ime -ine -ite -ive To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -ade -ail -ain -ave -ay To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long A Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -age -ake -ale -ame -ape -ate To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long A Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -each -eal -eam -ean -eat -eck -eep -eet To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -oat -oke -old -ole -one -ope -ote -ow To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Short Vowel Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -ew -ool -oom -oon -oot -ue -une -ute To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Practice putting together addition and subtraction fact families with these present themed Christmas puzzles. Each puzzle has the fact family numbers inside the bow and each corner of the present shows one of the math facts that belong to that family. Students will assemble the puzzle and record the fact families on their recording sheet. This product includes 35 different fact families for addition and subtraction. Each fact family puzzle is available in color and in black and white. A recording sheet is available for students to write their fact families as they complete their puzzles.

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer through third grade word list, for a total of 220 sight word cards for each theme.

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

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

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

This product contains all 220 sight words:

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the third grade word list.

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

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

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

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

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white.

The following word families are available in this packet:

LONG VOWELS

-ade

-age

-ail

-ain

-ake

-ale

-ame

-ape

-ate

-ave

-ay

-each

-eal

-eam

-ean

-eat

-eck

-eep

-eet

-ew

-ide

-ight

-ike

-ind

-ime

-ine

-ite

-ive

-oat

-oke

-old

-ole

-one

-ool

-oom

-oon

-oot

-ope

-ote

-ow

-ue

-une

-ute

SHORT VOWELS

-ab

-ack

-ad

-ag

-am

-amp

-an

-and

-ang

-ant

-ap

-ash

-ask

-at

-atch

-eck

-ed

-ell

-elt

-en

-end

-ent

-est

-et

-ick

-id

-ig

-ill

-in

-ing

-ip

-ish

-ist

-it

-itch

-ob

-ock

-od

-og

-op

-oss

-ot

-ub

-uck

-ug

-ump

-un

-ung

-unk

-ush

-ut

To see a free sample, please check out the following link:

Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie

The following products are available in this bundle:

Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (AGE/AKE/ALE/AME/APE/ATE)

Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (ADE/AIL/AIM/AVE/AY)

Christmas Ornament Long E Word Family Sort (EACH/EAL/EAM/EAN/EAT/ECK/EEP/EET)

Christmas Ornament Long I Word Family Sort (IDE/IGHT/IKE/IND/IME/INE/ITE/IVE)

Christmas Ornament Long O Word Family Sort (OAT/OKE/OLD/OLE/ONE/OPE/OTE/OW)

Christmas Ornament Long U Word Family Sort (EW/OOL/OOM/OON/OOT/UE/UNE/UTE)

Christmas Ornament CVC Short A Word Family Sort (AT/AM/AG/AD/AP/AN)

Christmas Ornament Short A Word Family Sort (AB/ACK/AMP/AND/ANG/ANT/ASH/ASK/ATCH)

Christmas Ornament Short E Word Family Sort (ECK/ED/ELL/ELT/EN/END/ENT/EST/ET)

Christmas Ornament Short I Word Family Sort (ID/IG/ILL/IN/IP/IT)

Christmas Ornament Short I Word Family Sort (ICK/ING/ISH/IST/ITCH)

Christmas Ornament Short O Word Family Sort (OB/OCK/OD/OG/OP/OSS/OT)

Christmas Ornament Short U Word Family Sort (UB/UCK/UG/UMP/UN/UNG/UNK/USH/UT)

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 these sets of preprimer to third grade sight words for a total of 220 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 220 Sight Words:

Where is the present? This Christmas sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the all 200 sight words.
• Present cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words 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 sight word they think the present is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the present is behind the Christmas tree, then the present must be hidden again to play further. If the present is not behind the Christmas tree, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white.

The following word families are available in this packet:

-ade

-age

-ail

-ain

-ake

-ale

-ame

-ape

-ate

-ave

-ay

-each

-eal

-eam

-ean

-eat

-eck

-eep

-eet

-ew

-ide

-ight

-ike

-ind

-ime

-ine

-ite

-ive

-oat

-oke

-old

-ole

-one

-ool

-oom

-oon

-oot

-ope

-ote

-ow

-ue

-une

-ute

To see a free sample, please check out the following link:

Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie

The following products are available in this bundle:

Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (AGE/AKE/ALE/AME/APE/ATE)

Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (ADE/AIL/AIM/AVE/AY)

Christmas Ornament Long E Word Family Sort (EACH/EAL/EAM/EAN/EAT/ECK/EEP/EET)

Christmas Ornament Long I Word Family Sort (IDE/IGHT/IKE/IND/IME/INE/ITE/IVE)

Christmas Ornament Long O Word Family Sort (OAT/OKE/OLD/OLE/ONE/OPE/OTE/OW)

Christmas Ornament Long U Word Family Sort (EW/OOL/OOM/OON/OOT/UE/UNE/UTE)

This product is available in the following bundles:

Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

Sort between word families with this Christmas tree themed sorting center. Print the trees and ornaments on card stock. Laminate the pieces for durability. Students will sort the ornaments onto the correct tree. There is a page included for students to record their sorting. This product is available in color and in black and white. The following word families are available in this packet: -ade -age -ail -ain -ake -ale -ame -ape -ate -ave -ay To see a free sample, please check out the following link: Word Family Sorting Christmas Freebie The following products are in this bundle: Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (AGE/AKE/ALE/AME/APE/ATE) Christmas Ornament Long A Word Family Sort (ADE/AIL/AIM/AVE/AY) This product is available in the following bundles: Word Family Sorting Christmas Long Vowels Bundle Word Family Sorting Christmas Vowel Bundle

This resource is a ready to go activity booklet. Pages could be used either as a booklet or separate the pages to create quick and easy Christmas stations. This resource is still growing and will be completed by December 1st. Includes: * Symmetry drawings * Write a Christmas story * SENSE-ational Christmas * Christmas traditions * Christmas Acrostic * Christmas letters (Dear Santa, Dear Mom & Dad, Dear Mom and Dear Dad) * Decorate your own ornament * Decorate your own tree Please don't forget to take a look at the other items I have available in my store! Follow me to get the most up to date information and heads up on upcoming sales. All new items are listed at 50% off during the first 24 hours. Another great reason to follow my store. Thank for taking the time to stop by and purchase this resource.

December Days are here. The days are chock-full of special events and holidays. Communities are full of helping hands. Students will enjoy learning about many holiday traditions and how neighbors are helping neighbors in this December-themed Two-Page Activity Set with complementary puzzles. This vocabulary-rich set includes :

• Days of Caring and Sharing Two-Page Activity Set (Holidays, Charities and Gift-Giving) – with 5 mini crosswords, "show you care" word search, and holiday secret message puzzle
• Word Search Puzzle – reinforces key vocabulary used in the Activity Set
• Crossword Puzzle – Holiday Giving and Charity

Topics Explored: December | Hanukkah | Chanukah | Kwanzaa | Christmas | New Year | New Year's Eve | holidays | charity | giving | collection | donation | community | tradition | customs | holiday customs

Holiday caring and sharing during December. See what our neighbors, friends, and family do during the holidays to help others in need and to spread joy with this crossword puzzle!

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Concepts Explored: December | holidays | charity | giving | collection | donation | community