Christmas Activities and Ideas

Tons of ideas and freebies for your classroom (and a few fun ones for home).

473 Pins

Collection by

3 New Years Resolutions for Teachers

New Years resolutions are sometimes a sore subject, but they can be helpful if planned and executed carefully. As you head into another new year in your classroom, consider these three New Years resolutions for teachers--and take it easy on yourself! Being a teacher is hard work and a challenging career choice. You make a million decisions every day, all with the intent of doing the best you can. Click through for support from a fellow educator. #NewYears #NewYearsresolutions #teachertips #teach

Christmas Activities For Kids

Upper Elementary Christmas

Christmas Activities

Holiday Activities

Reading Activities

A Collection of Christmas Activities - Ashleigh's Education Journey

This collection of Christmas activities will keep students engaged during the busy Christmas season!

This blog post gives more information about several of Rachel's favorite freebies for Christmas and Hanukkah. Your kiddos can still have fun in the last days of school before holiday break while learning at the same time! With these freebies, you can work on a variety of academic skills all while allowing your students to partake in the fun of holiday activities before winter break. These activities are great for any elementary school grade! Click through to grab freebies. #Christmas #Hanukkah Close Reading, Christmas Maths, Christmas Math, Christmas Hanukkah, Christmas Ideas, Hanukkah Activites, Winter Activities

Christmas and Hanukkah Activities

This blog post gives more information about several of Rachel's favorite freebies for Christmas and Hanukkah. Your kiddos can still have fun in the last days of school before holiday break while learning at the same time! With these freebies, you can work on a variety of academic skills all while allowing your students to partake in the fun of holiday activities before winter break. These activities are great for any elementary school grade! Click through to grab freebies. #Christmas #Hanukkah

Setting New Years resolutions is inspiring, but sometimes we don't meet those goals. I love this idea of making New Years resolutions with adjectives in order to help make them more attainable and achievable. Plus, adjectives are fun and engaging because they encourage creativity in your thinking, so students enjoy working with them in their writing. Try this method when setting them with your students after the new year! Click through to read the post. #NewYears #NewYearsresolutions #writing Reading Resources, Upper Elementary Resources, 4th Grade Writing, Primary Students, Teaching Jobs

Reading Resources

Upper Elementary Resources

4th Grade Writing

Primary Students

Teaching Jobs

New Years Resolutions with Adjectives

Setting New Years resolutions is inspiring, but sometimes we don't meet those goals. I love this idea of making New Years resolutions with adjectives in order to help make them more attainable and achievable. Plus, adjectives are fun and engaging because they encourage creativity in your thinking, so students enjoy working with them in their writing. Try this method when setting them with your students after the new year! Click through to read the post. #NewYears #NewYearsresolutions #writing

Every student needs a brain break now and then, and these fun and festive brain breaks are the perfect way to let them shake off the cobwebs while doing a fun game or activity with a holiday theme! Behavior management can be a challenge in December, when teachers and students are all looking forward to winter break. But, to bring in some of the holiday spirit and to give your elementary school students a chance to burn energy, try these brain breaks! #Christmas #brainbreaks #classroommanagement Gift Wrapping, Gym, Christmas Teaching, Teaching Holidays, Christmas Science

Christmas Brain Breaks!

Every student needs a brain break now and then, and these fun and festive brain breaks are the perfect way to let them shake off the cobwebs while doing a fun game or activity with a holiday theme! Behavior management can be a challenge in December, when teachers and students are all looking forward to winter break. But, to bring in some of the holiday spirit and to give your elementary school students a chance to burn energy, try these brain breaks! #Christmas #brainbreaks #classroommanagement

Summarizing task cards are an excellent addition to your centers or to your classroom games. This set of summarizing task cards features a winter holidays theme, covering Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Plus, they're free! These task cards make for an engaging way to keep your students working on academic learning in the days leading up to winter break and will introduce them to other holiday traditions they may not know about. Click through to download! #taskcards #holidays #Christmas #ELA Worksheets, Christmas, Fourth Grade, Christmas Freebie, Christmas School, Christmas Therapy

FREE Summarizing Task Cards for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa

Summarizing task cards are an excellent addition to your centers or to your classroom games. This set of summarizing task cards features a winter holidays theme, covering Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Plus, they're free! These task cards make for an engaging way to keep your students working on academic learning in the days leading up to winter break and will introduce them to other holiday traditions they may not know about. Click through to download! #taskcards #holidays #Christmas #ELA

You know we love "Would you rather..." questions here at Minds in Bloom, so we made one just for Christmas, of course! Get your students thinking and practicing decision-making skills with these fun Christmas Would You Rather Questions. You can use these questions as writing prompts or as discussion prompts. Other ideas include using them as a station during a Christmas party or winter holiday party or during centers. Click through to get them for free! #Christmas #writingprompts #ELA #centers Christmas Trivia Games, Christmas Trivia, Christmas Games, Holiday Facts, Christmas Fun, Christmas Themes, Christmas Party Games, Christmas Download

Christmas Trivia Games

Christmas Party Games

Christmas Download

Christmas Would You Rather Questions

You know we love "Would you rather..." questions here at Minds in Bloom, so we made one just for Christmas, of course! Get your students thinking and practicing decision-making skills with these fun Christmas Would You Rather Questions. You can use these questions as writing prompts or as discussion prompts. Other ideas include using them as a station during a Christmas party or winter holiday party or during centers. Click through to get them for free! #Christmas #writingprompts #ELA #centers

The question, "What do you want for Christmas?" is an age-old one that could use some updating. In this post I list 10 fun, creative spins on the question that will encourage your students to practice creative and critical thinking in order to answer it. You can use these as writing prompts or as discussion prompts in your elementary classroom. These are great questions for kids in elementary school, and they'll love sharing their answers! Click through to read. #Christmas #writingprompts #ELA Detox, Christmas Crafts, Christmas Decorations, Christmas Tree, Fact Family Christmas Tree, Christmas Tress, Holiday Decor

Detox

Christmas Crafts

Christmas Decorations

Christmas Tree

Fact Family Christmas Tree

Christmas Tress

Holiday Decor

10 Creative Spins on the Question: What Do You Want for Christmas?

The question, "What do you want for Christmas?" is an age-old one that could use some updating. In this post I list 10 fun, creative spins on the question that will encourage your students to practice creative and critical thinking in order to answer it. You can use these as writing prompts or as discussion prompts in your elementary classroom. These are great questions for kids in elementary school, and they'll love sharing their answers! Click through to read. #Christmas #writingprompts #ELA

Making New Years resolutions with kids can be a challenge. I provide guidance on how to do this in such a way that the child has control and accountability in this blog post. Of course, when we encourage children to create New Years resolutions, we want them to be attainable goals that kids can reasonable achieve within a period of time, a lot like SMART goals. Use the guidance and insight in this post to help you guide your students in this! #NewYears #NewYearsresolutions #elementaryschool #ELA English, Parents, Guidance

English

Parents

Guidance

Making New Years Resolutions with Kids

Making New Years resolutions with kids can be a challenge. I provide guidance on how to do this in such a way that the child has control and accountability in this blog post. Of course, when we encourage children to create New Years resolutions, we want them to be attainable goals that kids can reasonable achieve within a period of time, a lot like SMART goals. Use the guidance and insight in this post to help you guide your students in this! #NewYears #NewYearsresolutions #elementaryschool #ELA

Favorite Christmas Books to Read Out Loud

We all have our favorite Christmas books that we love to read out loud to our children and students. We love certain stories and characters, and we like to share them with our students in the ELA classroom leading up to winter break. But, if you're in the mood to switch things up this holiday season, then check out this list of Christmas books that are perfect for read alouds. See if your favorite is listed in this round-up blog post! #Christmas #readalouds #Englishlanguagearts #reading #holiday

Celebrate the holidays with these fun 3-D star ornaments! Your students can color these templates and mix and match them to make festive 3-D stars! These ornaments would be a really fun addition to your class Christmas party or winter holiday party before winter break. Or, you could include them in your centers rotations in the days leading up to break! Click through to read about different ways to mix up the templates and how to use them. #Christmas #Christmasornaments #coloring #coloringsheets Festive Crafts, Pre K, Christmas Writing, Christmas Projects, Holiday Crafts, Kids Christmas, Christmas Writing Prompts

Christmas Writing Prompts

Got Kids Who Love to Color? Make this 3D Star Ornament!

Celebrate the holidays with these fun 3-D star ornaments! Your students can color these templates and mix and match them to make festive 3-D stars! These ornaments would be a really fun addition to your class Christmas party or winter holiday party before winter break. Or, you could include them in your centers rotations in the days leading up to break! Click through to read about different ways to mix up the templates and how to use them. #Christmas #Christmasornaments #coloring #coloringsheets

20 Christmas Writing Prompts

Here are 20 Christmas writing prompts to help you pass those last few stressful days until Christmas break and to get your students thinking and writing creatively! Creative and critical thinking are important skills to practice, and they're targeted especially well with these writing prompts. The best part is that these ELA writing prompts are FREE! Click through to this blog post to get them, and you can share them with your upper elementary students. #writingprompts #Englishlanguagearts #ELA

This Christmas analogy freebie will allow your students to celebrate the holiday while practicing word work at the same time. Sounds like a win-win to me! With a focus on fun Christmas themed word pairs, this analogy activity will help your students improve their vocabulary skills. You can use these analogies during a winter holiday party, during English language arts class, during literacy centers, or even for early finishers. Click through to get them! #Christmas #winterholiday #ELA #wordstudy English Language Arts, Common Core Reading, Literacy, Literacy Centres

English Language Arts

Common Core Reading

Literacy

Literacy Centres

Christmas Analogy Fun

This Christmas analogy freebie will allow your students to celebrate the holiday while practicing word work at the same time. Sounds like a win-win to me! With a focus on fun Christmas themed word pairs, this analogy activity will help your students improve their vocabulary skills. You can use these analogies during a winter holiday party, during English language arts class, during literacy centers, or even for early finishers. Click through to get them! #Christmas #winterholiday #ELA #wordstudy

This blog post gives more information about six of Rachel's favorite freebies for Christmas and Hanukkah. Your kiddos can still have fun in the last days of school before holiday break while learning at the same time! With these freebies, you can work on a variety of academic skills all while allowing your students to partake in the fun of holiday activities before winter break. These activities are great for any elementary school grade level! Click through to grab freebies. #Christmas #Hanukkah Art, Christmas Lesson, Christmas Reading, Christmas Activities For School

Art

Christmas Lesson

Christmas Reading

Christmas Activities For School

Freebies for Christmas and Hanukkah!

This blog post gives more information about six of Rachel's favorite freebies for Christmas and Hanukkah. Your kiddos can still have fun in the last days of school before holiday break while learning at the same time! With these freebies, you can work on a variety of academic skills all while allowing your students to partake in the fun of holiday activities before winter break. These activities are great for any elementary school grade level! Click through to grab freebies. #Christmas #Hanukkah