Less than $5 5th Grade Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Activities (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!

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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

A fun and educational Persuasive Writing Activity to incorporate during the holidays. Santa is now hiring for a sidekick to help him with ideas for the North Pole to run smoothly. This activity incorporates many learning skills including: Writing mechanics, persuasive writing, making a writing plan, parts of a friendly letter, and creativity. Not only will students use their writing skills to persuade Santa, but they will also design and decorate Santa's sleigh to impress him with their creativity skills. The Christmas Persuasive Writing Activity includes: (2) Now Hiring Advertisement Posters to hang around the school, hallway, or classroom. Posters in color and black/white. (1) Job Application (1) Persuasive Writing Plan (2) Decorative Writing Papers -one with smaller lines for older students, and one with larger lines for younger students. (1) Santa's Sleigh Template All handouts are printer friendly. I hope your students love this as much as mine do every year! Check out my Snowman Soup Labels Check out my best seller Common Core Writing Interactive Notebook Please rate and comment. Thank You!

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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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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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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Use this no-prep digital holiday game as an icebreaker, brain break, morning meeting activity or Christmas party game during the month of December. This Christmas Emoji Pictionary Game will have your students eagerly using emojis to guess the Christmas phrases they represent. For example, a rain emoji that is combined with a deer emoji translates to "reindeer."

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What's Included:

• 30 Emoji picture guessing slides
• 30 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• Editable Emoji slide template for you to customize phrases for your own class
• Directions Slide
• Editable Directions Slide

How to play:

• Display the emoji puzzle slide to your students.
• Students will guess the Christmas phrases or words based on the emoji pictures provided.
• Consider letting students work individually or in teams to see who can guess the most emoji phrases!
• Reveal the answer by advancing to the next slide.

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Use this no-prep digital holiday game as an icebreaker, brain break, morning meeting activity or Christmas party game during the month of December. Students will make predictions and guess the mystery zoomed in picture! Students can discuss clues to come up with an answer, share their observations with the class, and agree or disagree with their classmates' predictions! The mystery picture will be revealed on the following slide.

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What's Included:

• 15 zoomed in mystery pictures
• 15 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• directions slide
• editable template to customize your own zoomed in images

Directions:

• Students will look at the zoomed-in portion of a larger image. The first slide of each picture is at maximum zoom.
• Students will try to guess what the picture is based on the tiny glimpse.
• The following slide reveals the mystery picture.

Some zoomed in pictures you will see:

• reindeer
• Christmas cookies
• stockings
• snowflakes

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Do your students need a brain break during the weeks leading up to Christmas? Do your students love to debate? Use this no-prep ice breaker game to allow your students the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly Christmas traditions. Use this game as an ice breaker activity, brain break, morning meeting, community building activity, debates, and so much more!

What do you get?

15 would you rather December/Christmas themed question slides

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Increase student engagement and writing skills during the winter season with these 15 no-prep and Christmas-themed finish-the-story editable narrative writing prompts! These digital prompts provide easy writing activities, collaboration, and public speaking practice, are great for daily writing or journaling, and more!

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What's included:

15 finish the story writing prompts!

1 directions slide

1 editable directions slide

1 editable finish the story template

Directions:

• Print and laminate OR project on the screen.
• Allow students to choose a prompt OR have one picked for each day.
• Once students respond to the prompt they can practice public speaking skills by presenting their stories to the class or to small groups.

Sample Slide:

Being the new kid in town, I took it upon myself to get acquainted with the neighbors. When I knocked on the door, I was greeted by a small army of elves who took me captive...

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Santa Claus is comin' to town! We all know Santa loves his cookies. This hands-on and heartwarming art project combines the joy of holiday traditions with the creativity of personalized expression. This delightful project invites children to embark on a magical journey of self-expression and festive cheer by creating customized cookies for Santa Claus using their own name.

This activity involves cutting and gluing and is fun for many ages/grades!

Christmas Tree Lot Project

Students will be asked to make a tree lot according to the student instruction page. Students will use special skills along with area and perimeter skills. A minor research component is included to research the types of trees to sell on their Christmas Tree Lot.

Materials Included:

· Goals and Teacher Instructions

· Student Introduction Page

· Student Planning Page

· Grading Rubric

· Optional Writing Page

· Christmas Tree Research Page

· Legends Page

· Elements and Pieces page

· 11x14 grid page

Recalling a Christmas Memory Project

Students will be able to use brain mapping worksheets to recall and answer the questions who, what, when where and why in reference to a Christmas memory. The project is a four-paragraph writing project.

Materials Included:

· Goals and Teacher Instructions

· Student Introduction Page

· Student Planning Page

· Grading Rubric

· Optional Writing Page

15-day lesson plans for the classroom or family during the 2020 advent season. The free version has basic lesson plans for classrooms and families to follow. The lesson plans include follow along plans for bible reading, a read aloud, suggested picture books and movies. It also includes suggested weekly themes for each week.

Have students design a concert. They must have a theme, create a stage, costumes, and decorations, and select relevant acts. They will also create a program to tie their concert together. Includes grading rubric.

This product features the perfect activity to include in your holiday repertoire! In this differentiated lesson plan, students examine the figurative language in the classic poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, in a thoughtful, engaging, and creative way. Teach this lesson any time in the month of December to practice figurative language identification and your students will thank you for such a fun activity!

Product Includes:

• Detailed Lesson Plan
• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas lines
• Worksheet
• Student Example
• Color-coded Teacher's Answer Key

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