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Lesson Plans/Christmas Thematic Units/Christmas Activities
Christmas
Around the World
WEAVING TECHNOLOGY INTO THEMATIC UNITS. BROAD GOALS: To develop an understanding and appreciation of different customs around the world To utilize computers and other technology as an integral part of the curriculum.
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Holiday
Customs Around the World
Customs for Christmas from around the
world. Includes art and craft ideas.
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Christmas
at the Holiday
Zone
What is Christmas All About? Action Rhymes and Fingerplays.
Arts and Crafts. Games. Language Activities. Poetry. Secular Christmas Resources.
Songs for Children. Recommended Links.
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The History of Christmas Trees, Part One
Grades: 3-5
Learn the origin of the Christmas tree.
To make children aware that the
custom of decorating a tree during seasonal celebrations is a link with
the historic past and furthers traditions from many cultures.
To create an awareness that the dark of winter encourages us all to
think about our emotional and spiritual ties with our communities and
our families.
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http://www.christmastrees.on.ca/ednet/lesson1.html
Christmas
Theme Activities
Grades: Elementary
A nice site
with lots of Christmas ideas and printouts. Some resources are
free some require a membership.
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The
Christmas Blizzard
Grades: 3-8
Nice lesson plans to go with the book The
Christmas Blizzard.
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Count down chain for
Christmas
Grades: Elementary
Make a 25 link paper chain
to count down the days until Christmas. Includes a poem.
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Christmas Story
Grades: All
Kids work together to
create a Christmas story.
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Merry Christmas Writing
Center
Grades: Elementary
Writing center to develop vocabulary words related to Christmas.
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Christmas Tree (Elementary,
Mathematics) Grades:
Elementary
Make a Christmas tree.
The lesson focuses on recognizing smallest to largest.
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Mexican Version of The
Night Before Christmas
Grades: 4-7
Students
read the following poem aloud and then participate in enacting the scenes of the
poem. Discuss the variations of this poem and the traditional English form as
well as the significances of the changes and variations.
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Feliz Navidad (A Mexican
Christmas Unit)
Students will participate in interdisciplinary activities related to a Mexican Christmas celebration .
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Christmas
Internet
Resources/Christmas Internet Activities
How
Christmas Works
A page from howstuffworks.com explaining many aspects
of Christmas.
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Christmas-Software.com
Links to downloadable, Windows-based, Christmas oriented freeware and shareware.
Includes screen savers, games, and musical software.
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Ultimate
Christmas Site
Includes animated graphics, carols, English traditions, and stories.
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Christmas
Crafts/Christmas Recipes
Cute and Easy Christmas
Tree Ornaments
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Christmas
Crafts
Vast
collection of crafts from Kid's Domain
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Christmas Crafts
Many wonderful ideas on this page. A few of your choices are spool ornaments, holiday
candles, and candy trains.
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Christmas
Crafts
Directions for over 30 Christmas related craft projects.
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Christmas
Theme
Not only crafts, you can also find games, songs, and more.
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Kinderart Christmas
Crafts
Ornaments, wreaths, etc...
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Recipes
Christmas recipes
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Free
Christmas Printouts
It's getting
difficult to find quality free resources online. Most sites are starting
to charge membership fees. If you know of a good site for free Christmas
printouts, send me a note so I can share it with others.
Print and
Play
Word Search, Coloring, Mazes, Puzzles
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ABCTeach
Christmas Crafts and Printouts
Puzzles, coloring pages, and crafts.
ABCTeach is a membership site but they still
offer some good free resources.
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Free
Christmas Clipart
Clipart
from Kids Domain
Holiday
Clipart.com
Holiday
Graphics
Clipart and web graphics
Christmas
on Your Computer
PC Downloads
Some free, some not...from Kid's Domain
Mac Downloads
Some free, some not...from Kid's Domain
Christmas
Songs
Christmas Songs from
Santaland
Lyrics and midis to many Christmas songs.
Christmas
Songs & Carols
Lyrics, midis and sheet
music to many Christmas songs.
Christmas Music
Santa Claus
 Internet
Resources and Activities
Santa's Secret Village
North Pole this way!
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All Santa, All the time
Features include a Santa FAQ, recipes, humor, stories, and e-mail to Santa.
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Claus.Com
Check the
naughty or nice list. Attend elf school. Try Mrs. Claus's recipes. Play games with the
reindeer and elves. Track Santa on Christmas Eve.
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MrClaus.com
E-mail Santa,
view his schedule for today, participate in fun activities, and access a reference
library.
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NorthPole4Kids.Com
Designed especially for kids; includes e-mail to Santa service,
FAQs, games and other X-Mas fun.
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SaintNick.org
Send a
letter to Santa and receive an e-mail in return, plus recipes, songs, and more.
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Santa Tracker
Track Santa's every step with Santa Tracker.
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Santa's Page - The
North Pole
Download activities or E-mail Santa your Christmas list. Learn how other
children around the world celebrate Christmas.
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Tracking Santa
Shareware for Windows to track St. Nick as he
flies across the sky.
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Yes,
Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Text of the famous editorial from the New York Sun,
1897.
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