Holidays Around the World Review Packet

Here is something I whipped up tonight while watching TV--A Holidays Around the World Review Packet.

Holidays Writing Retell Sheets
3 options available:

• Students write sentences to match the pictures (2nd and above)
• Students write the missing holiday name in the shape box font. (1st grade)
• Student traces the holiday name within the sentence. (Kindergarten)

Holiday Around the World Fact Cards: BW and Color Options

• Print, laminate, and cut out to use as pocket chart cards or review for learning facts about each holiday.
• Use the black and white version to create a mini-book.

Holiday Around the World Word Wall Cards:

• Print, laminate, cut and place in your word wall or hang on bulletin board.

You can find this HERE at my TPT store.

Clip Art Sources:

Clip Art by Carrie

Melonheadz Illustrating

EduClips

Holidays Around the World Mini Book Bundle

Just put together a Holidays Around the World Mini Book bundle that includes:

• Holiday Traditions Around the World Mini Book (includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Las Posadas, and Diwali)
• What is Kwanzaa?
• What is Hanukkah?
• What is Christmas?
• What is Las Posadas?
• What is Diwali?

If you'd like to see the exact words in these books you can look at each item's description in my TPT store.  Or click on the links to take you to my blog post for each of the books where you can see the words to each book.

You can find this HERE at my TPT store.
You can find this HERE at my TN shop.

SAVE by buying all these book in the bundle!

Holiday Traditions Around the World Mini Book

Great book to use as an introduction to a few of the Holidays Around the World.

You can find this book HERE at my TPT store.  Scroll down to see the words and content included in this 22 page mini book.

Holiday Traditions Around the World Mini Book

There are many holidays around the world. 
This book is about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali,
Christmas, and Las Posadas.

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday in December.
It is called the festival of lights. 
Children get a small gift each night.
A candle is lit on the menorah each night. 
The middle candle on the menorah is called a shamash. 
It is the helper candle.
Children play with a toy called a dreidel.
Jewish chocolate candy coins are called gelt.
Jewish people eat latkes. They are a potato pancake.
They eat sufganiyah or jelly-filled donuts.

Kwanzaa is an African holiday in December that lasts for 7 days.
It is a harvest festival to celebrate African culture.
The colors of Kwanzaa are red, black, and green.
The flag is called a bendera.
A kinara is a special candle holder for Kwanzaa.
One ear of corn is placed on the mat for each child.
People drink from the unity cup to remember their ancestors.
They say, “Let’s pull together.”
The fruits and vegetables remind people
of the food that people in Africa ate.
Children get homemade gifts on the last day of Kwanzaa.

Christmas is a holiday celebrated in December
by many people all over the world.
People decorate a tree with ornaments.
They put gifts under the tree.
A Christmas wreath is put on your house
to decorate your front door.
The elves help Santa fill his sleigh with toys.
Rudolph and the reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh through the sky.
Santa brings presents for children
and fills their stockings on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas morning, people open presents from each other.

Diwali is India’s biggest holiday of the year.
It is celebrated in October or November each year.
Diwali started as a harvest festival
that marked the last harvest before winter.
People would celebrate and pray for success in the new year.
People in India get together with family.
They light clay lamps, light fireworks, hang lights,
and have bonfires to worship Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth.
There are 5 days of Diwali.
On day 1 people buy gold and silver for good luck.
On day 2 people decorate their homes.
On day 3 people pray, eat, and light fireworks.
On day 4 people visit family and friends and give gifts.
On day 5 brothers visit married sisters
to show how much they love them.

Las Posadas is a Mexican holiday in December that lasts for 9 days.
People in Mexico decorate their home with the poinsettia.
Each night children dress up like an angel,
a shepherd, and Mary and Joseph.
People carry candles as they walk
down the street to the party. They sing songs.
Then they have a feast, break a piñata,
play games, and drink hot chocolate.
On the last day of Las Posadas,
families go to church at midnight.

Written by Carrie Hanson
Clip Art by Carrie Teaching First

Check out my mini-books for each of these holidays:

What is Hanukkah? What is Kwanzaa?
What is Diwali?
What is Christmas?
What is Las Posadas?

What is Christmas? Mini-Book

This year we plan on adding a few different holidays to our Holidays Around the World theme in December.  Last year we added Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, this year Diwali and Las Posadas.  I created a mini-book for each of those holidays so wanted one for Christmas as well.  Here is my "What is Christmas?" Mini-Book:

• Christmas is a holiday celebrated in December by many people all over the world.

• People decorate a tree with ornaments.  They put gifts under the tree.

• A wreath hangs on your door to decorate for Christmas.

• People go shopping or make ornaments for the ones they love.  They wrap the gifts in paper and put a bow on top.

• Santa lives at the North Pole with Mrs. Claus. The elves help Santa make toys for children all over the world.

• The elves help Santa fill his sleigh with toys for Christmas Eve.

• Some families go to church on Christmas Eve.

• The reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh in the night sky.

• People make cookies at Christmas. They leave them out on Christmas Eve for Santa to eat.

• Santa puts presents under the Christmas tree while everyone is sleeping. He fills your stocking with goodies.

• On Christmas morning, people open gifts from each other.

You can find this mini book HERE at my TPT store:

Written and Illustrated by:
Carrie Hanson
Clip Art by Carrie Teaching First
www.ccteachfirst.blogspot.com

Las Posadas Mini Book

This is a kid-friendly book about the Mexican holiday called Las Posadas:

• Las Posadas is a Mexican holiday in December that last for 9 days.
• People in Mexico decorate their home with the poinsettia
• It is a flower with bright red leaves.
• Las Posadas lasts from December 16 to Christmas Eve.
• Each night a children dress up like an angel, a shepherd, and Mary and Joseph.
• People carry candles as they walk down the street to the party.
• A different family has the party each night.  People sing songs and celebrate.
• Then they have a feast, break a piñata, play games, and drink hot chocolate.
• People break the piñata to wish for happiness, food, and the well-being of others.
• On the last day of Las Posadas, families go to church at midnight.

You can find this mini book HERE at my TPT store.

Written by: Carrie Hanson
Clip Art by Carrie
www.ccteachfirst.blogspot.com
Images: cactus, notes, thought bubble, table, lamp, couch, chair, jar, DECEMBER 16-24, Christmas candle w/holder, hot chocolate, moon, cross

Creative Clips by Krista Wallden
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden
Image: smiley face

EduClips
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Educasong
Images: Las Posadas characters (Mexican boy/girl, Mary, Joseph, nativity, donkey, pinatas, poinsettia, candle)

Graphics From the Pond
www.frompond.blogspot.com
Images: scribble background

Sketchy Christmas Doodles with FREEBIE

Here is my latest:  Sketchy Christmas Doodles!  I've been playing around with a new app on my iPad called iDraw.  I think I like it so far, but I'm still exporting my images into Art Studio to add the color fill.  In this set you'll find these sketchy/stick-like images:

sketchy ornaments (yellow, blue, green, red)
sketchy ornament with tree
sketchy ornament with candy cane
sketchy candy canes (green, red)
sketchy stockings (yellow, blue, green, red)
sketchy stocking with tree
sketchy stocking with candy cane
sketchy presents (red, green)
sketchy Santa
sketchy stick elf boy
sketchy stick elf girl
sketchy Christmas tree
line art images (elf boy, elf girl, stocking, ornament, gift)

Where you can find this set:
My TPT store HERE
My Teachers Notebook clip art gallery HERE

And a Merry Christmas to all!  Here's your FREEBIE:  Just right double click on the image and right click to do a save as.  Thanks for stopping into my blog!

Santa Craftivity FREEBIE

Looking through my documents folder this week and came across this project that I started last year about this time and never finished.  Thought I'd put it out there as a Christmas FREEBIE!  Have your student make this Santa craft after you do any creative writing around the Christmas/Santa theme.

Simply copy the Santa body parts on card stock or construction paper, cut a piece of colored construction paper to glue the writing sheet to, and you'll be all set!

You can find this HERE at my TPT store.

Holiday Cards for Letter Writing: Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa

It's that time of year and wanted to put out a freebie for all my followers and people who come across my store.  Get your students excited about writing a special message to someone by having them write a Holiday Card for a friend or family member.  Cards options are centered around the Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas traditions.  Melonheadz has super cute Hanukkah and Kwanzaa clip art bundles.  Check out her store HERE.

You can download this Holiday Cards freebie HERE at my TPT store.  I would love your feedback!

Santa Skip Counting and Santa Poem FREEBIE

Can you believe its less than 3 weeks until Christmas?  We are well into our Christmas theme and just finished one of our biggest projects yet:  The Holiday Cookbook.  They are sent off to the AEA for publishing and we are now awaiting a return so we can wrap them up as gifts for mom and dad.  This week we also did 2 other Christmas gift projects:  Reindeer Handprint Ornaments and a special Christmas Ornament telling their mom or dad why they are so special.

Santa Skip Counting:
Here is a Santa Skip Couning activity that is similar to the Pumpkin and Turkey Skip Counting activities we posted about earlier.  We added a skip counting by 25s to make this one a bit more challenging.  We'll soon be introducing the quarter and skip counting by 25s is very helpful when counting money.

You can find this activity HERE at our TPT store.

 

 

Santa Poem FREEBIE:

Here is a link to a Santa Pocket Chart Poem with a file folder retelling for you for FREE!  One of the ways we want to say Merry Christmas and thanks for being our followers.  You can download it HERE through Google.  Large version is for the pocket chart and the smaller version and the poem page are to make a file folder retelling of the poem.  (Glue the poem onto the front of the file folder, cut out and laminate the small pieces, and attach with velcro to have an independent work station where students retell or re-read the poem and self-check to see if they got it in the right order.)

 

Clip Art used to make the Santa poem is from DJ Inkers.

 

   

 

 

All Things Christmas Vocabulary Book

Just finished our new vocabulary book called "All Things Christmas", which tells about all things Christmas related things. It is very similar to our Thanksgiving Vocabulary Book, which focuses on the story of the first Thanksgiving. Focus words for this story include:

tree, star, candy cane, wreath, stocking, gifts, bow, Santa, sleigh, reindeer, presents

Students will be using our theme related word wall to help them fill in the missing words.  (Check out our Christmas and Winter Word Wall Cards that go along with this book.)  We plan to read aloud as a shared read with our class, either showing this on the optima first or having the students follow along with their fingers as we read aloud to them. Or possibly show in the optima and use the mimio to write in the missing words.  Then when we are done the students write the missing focus word by using the word wall and paying attention to the picture clues in the store and context clues they heard during the shared read.

This activity will probably be a whole class activity for 1st grader for the reading part, as they would need instructional support, but could be independent for second graders.

For the past few years we've done a book called "Santa Claus" that we got the words from somewhere in cyberspace.  It really didn't focus on as many Christmas words that we wanted to it to, so that's why we revamped it for this year.  We plan on offering the old one as a FREEBIE on here soon.  We just need to upload our JPEG images into a PDF file.  So check back soon, as we'll have that available for free download through Google Drive/Docs.
You can find this vocabulary book HERE at our TPT store.

"I'm a Little Reindeer" Animated Movie FREEBIE

Our students this year are really "in" to the Optima and multi media presentations, so we have been creating little animated Power Point slideshows and a few "movies" if you want to call them that.  Just finished a little animated version of one of our favorite poems we do with our first graders:  I'm a Little Reindeer.

I'm a little reindeer
ready to fly.
I'll pull Santa's sleigh
up in the sky.
Christmas is here.
We can't be late!
All the little children
just cannot wait.

You can download this freebie HERE at our TPT store.  Here's the preview of the movie you can watch here.  Quality is much better if you download from the TPT store.  Hope you like it.  We can't wait to do this next week with the kids!

Christmas and Winter Word Wall Cards

Always looking ahead to the next theme as you are teaching the current one.  Does anyone feel like that's how teaching goes?  Here are the Christmas and Winter Word Wall Cards that we will use in our theme Word Wall Pocket Chart this year.

This set includes word wall cards for these words:

Santa, Mrs. Claus, elf, star, gingerbread man, gingergread woman, gingerbread girl, gingerbread boy, gingerbread house, gingerbread cookies, reindeer, Rudolph, Christmas tree, stocking, ornament, candy cane, sleigh, mug, hot chocolate, toy sack, snowflake, present, snow drift, snowman, stocking hat, mittens, boots, scarf, snowball, sled, shovel, ice skates, snowboard, button, carrot, sticks, top hat, pine tree, iPad, iPod, teddy bear, train, doll, candy, letter, beard, holly

You can find this word wall card set at our TPT store HERE.  We would LOVE your feedback.

Christmas & Holiday Riddles

Whoa!  I know its only October, but November is just around the corner, and before you know it, here comes Christmas!  October, November, and December are my three favorite months of the school year:  Farm, Pumpkins, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and North Pole themes.  My brain kinda goes 100 miles a minute and can't plan or create/make fast enough.  Since I just finished my Christmas Doodles clip art, I thought I better get to doing more of our theme related riddles card sets.  The kids are attentive listeners and its so much fun!

Riddles included for: Santa, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, Christmas tree, pine tree, sleigh, stocking, toy bag, star, hot chocolate, candy cane, elf, holly, present, ornament, letter, scissors, kid, gingerbread man, snowflake, snowman, polar bear, North Pole

Check out our Christmas & Holiday Riddles set HERE at our TPT store:

Christmas Doodles and FREEBIE Candy Cane

Just finished my Christmas Doodles digital clip art collection.  This a personal and commercial use digital clip art collection which includes all the images shown in the preview file in BW and full-color PNG format:

Santa, Mrs. Claus, elf, boy with present, girl with present, gingerbread man, reindeer, Rudolph, snow plop, snowflake, holly, cup, Christmas tree cup, candy cane, stocking, toy bag, Christmas tree, pine tree, sleigh, Santa head, star, ornament

If you are interested in purchasing this set you can find it:
Carrie's Teacher's Notebook clip art galary HERE
C&C Teach First TPT store HERE

Here's your freebie candy cane:

Thanks for stopping into our blog.  We are feeling truly blessed!  We have just passed 100 followers on our blog and over 300 people at our TPT store.

 

 

~Carrie

North Pole-Christmas Mini-Unit

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So excited to share this updated mini-unit with you all.  We just purchased some new clip art by KPM Doodles this weekend and couldn't wait to start revamping some of our North Pole theme activities and create some new!  During the month of December we teach a unit all about Christmas and what Christmas is:  a time of giving.  Some of the big projects that we do are:

1. Write a special messgae to mom or dad and laminate for an ornament to hang on tree
2. Handprint Reindeer ornament for tree
3. Holiday Cookbook (student version of their favorite recipe); See picture below of our example of how we used picture clues to help write the directions to a recipe:



Activities included in the new North Pole mini-unit at our TPT store:

1. “Dear Santa” letter writing sheet
2. “Santa Claus is coming to town.” cut-apart sentence
3. “Christmas is a time of giving.” cut-apart sentence
4. “Why Did Santa Grow a Beard” writing sheet
5. “If I Was Santa’s Helper” writing sheet
6. “Christmas Is” writing sheet (looks, smells, sounds like)
7. “In My Stocking” pocket chart poem
8. “In My Stocking” poem fill in the blank sheet
9. Poems: Santa, Little Elf, Little Reindeer, Christmas Tree
10. “Counts by 2 Santas” (2-18)
11. “Elf Ornament” writing sheet
12. Santa Claus PP Sight Word mat
13. Mrs. Claus PP Sight Word mat
14. Boy Elf Primer Sight Word mat
15. Girl Elf Primer Sight Word mat
16. Teddy Bear Primer Sight Word mat  

You can preview and purchase our unit at our TPT store:  HERE.