Happy Sunday! Since most of us have spent time this week preparing for the upcoming holidays, I decided it was the perfect time to share some Christmas freebies with you to help get you through the next few weeks of school!
Start with this FREE lesson on theme from the Christmas classic Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer. Students will watch the movie and determine the theme, providing evidence from the movie to back up their theme. Of course, sample answer keys are included.
Are your students creating ornaments for a class Christmas tree or as a keepsake? Check out this free template from The Doodle Oven. She’s also got several more fun ornament templates here!
These Figurative Language Task Cards by Teaching With a Mountain View are a fun and festive way to learn or practice similes and metaphors.
Need a game or a fun way to pass some time? Look no further than Rachel Lynette’s Would You Rather Questions for Christmas.
This close read about Christmas in the United States by Ashleigh is great for upper elementary students.
You’ll love how complete this persuasive writing project is! Elf for Hire by Teresa Kwant includes so many useful prewriting and scaffolding pages that it truly is a NO PREP freebie!
These task cards from Rachel Lynette are a great way to practice summarizing and include other holiday celebrations as well
You’ll also love this Find the Idioms Christmas Poem activity by The Peanut Gallery!
The Peanut Gallery also has these super convenient FREE Christmas Homework Passes if you’re looking for something to gift your students with.
Your students will love this fun activity, Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook, by Margaret Whisnant.
And finally, here’s your victory freebie! It’s a paid item but will flash free for ONE HOUR following a Saints victory in their noon game over the Texans. This packet includes multiple versions of the classic Christmas story, The Gift of the Magi, plus tons of differentiated activities that teach plot, theme, writing, figurative language, and more.
Happy Sunday!
Thank you for sharing these wonderful resources. I could not get the link for the close reading about Christmas to work. When I clicked on the picture it took me to a blank page with a green rickrack heading. Please let me know if there is a way to access it. Thank You! Liz
Just copy the resource title, go onto TPT and paste the title in the search engine. That’s how I accessed it – I got the green rickrack heading as well when I tried!!
Thanks for the tip! I will try that.