ESL Holiday Lessons
Christmas Day
Celebrary the holiday season fluently with a packet designed for English learners. The resource includes reading comprehension, spelling, scrambled sentences, and writing worksheets focused around Christmas.
PreKinders
Snowmen Pattern Block Mat
Snowmen don't have to be three stacked circles! Practice geometry skills with a holiday-themed pattern block mat that features two smiling snowmen.
PreKinders
Christmas Gifts Pattern Block Mat
Give scholars the gift of knowledge with a present-themed pattern block mat designed to reinforce geometry skills. As they compile the blocks in the correct order to complete patterns, they form a lovely picture of a holiday gift.
Assemblies of Yahweh
The Maccabees and Hanukkah
Celebrate the Festival of Lights with a reading of the story of the Maccabees. Elementary learners discover how Hanukkah came to be with comprehension questions and fun activities for a full lesson during the holidays.
PreKinders
Snowflake Pattern Block Mat
Add a touch of winter flair to geometry practice with a pattern block mat shaped as a snowflake. Preschoolers and kindergartners can work on both shape recognition and pattern identification as they form beautiful snowflakes.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Word Search Match
Go beyond a traditional word search with a clue matching, word search combo. Scholars read clues, write the word that matches, then search for the word in a puzzle. Clues and words offer insight into the life of polar bears.
Math Worksheets Land
Christmas Fraction Word Problems
Reinforce fraction skills with a Christmas-themed math worksheet. Scholars solve three word problems using fraction circles that represent a holiday pie.
Math Worksheets 4 Kids
Pictograph Christmas Gifts
Add holiday cheer to math practice with a Christmas themed worksheet designed to reinforce skip counting by two and solving word problems.
PreKinders
Snowman Pattern Block Mat
What do a bunch of rhombuses, squares, and pentagons create? A snowman on a pattern block mat! Let young mathematicians explore shapes to create patterns in this hands-on activity worksheet.
PreKinders
Christmas Tree Pattern Block Mat
Put the tree back in geometry! Explore shapes and celebrate Christmas while using pentagon, square, and triangle pattern blocks to create a Christmas tree.
Midwest Institute for Native American Studies
Introduction to Pre-Columbian Lessons
Native peoples established civilizations all over Central and North America. Introduce native civilizations with a unit that promotes discussion, reinforces map skills, enhances reading comprehension, and exposes young historians to the...
PreKinders
Christmas Wreath Pattern Block Mat
Add some holiday cheer to geometry practice with a Christmas themed pattern block mat in the shape of a wreath.
Teaching Oasis
Gingerbread Baby Lesson Plan Guide
Reinforce reading comprehension and story mapping skills with the help from a story, Gingerbread Baby by Jen Brett. Individuals discover new vocabulary, make predictions, retell main events, respond to reading using a graphic organizer,...
Curated OER
Run, Gingerbread Men, Run!—Game
Run, gingerbread men! During the board game, four gingerbread men race to discover which one finishes first. Scholars take note of the game's results using a tally chart and bar graph for all to observe the frequency of the winning...
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Writing Topic Sentences
An engaging and quick presentation on writing topic sentences is sure to grab the attention of your elementary writers. The PowerPoint can be modified and includes relevant visual examples.
Star Date
Modeling the Night Sky
Dramatize the stars and planets as they become a visual representation of the solar system in this activity. Young astronomers track and simulate various constellations as they orbit the Earth to learn the position and motion of objects...
Mental Arithmetic
Number Bonds to 10
First graders solve the sums up to 10 using the mental math strategy of number bonding. Thirty different addition facts on the worksheet allow for plenty of practice.
News Word
Hanukkah
How much does your class know about the Jewish Festival of Lights? Young learners practice Hanukkah vocabulary, including latkes, Judea, sufganiot, and gimel, in a series of word puzzles.
ESL Holiday Lessons
Kwanzaa
Teach English language learners about the week-long holiday of Kwanzaa that is celebrated around the world during December. It includes holiday-themed reading comprehension passages, phrase matching, fill-in-the-blanks, and journaling...
Yummy Math
2015 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Take a seat on the parade route with a holiday-themed set of word problems. Young mathematicians answer questions based on the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in New York City, including finding the average number of members in a...
Math Worksheets 4 Kids
Sorting 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Challenge mathematicians to examine and sort a variety of 2-D and 3-D figures with a 10-problem solid shapes worksheet.
Educator's Network
Thanksgiving
A collection of Thanksgiving-themed vocabulary worksheets are sure to instill a sense of season gratitude. Featuring a set of nouns, verbs, and adjectives based on the holiday, the packet invites class members to fill in the blanks,...
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Sentence Fragments
Reinforce writing and language skills with a grammar worksheet that focuses on determining whether a sentence is complete or a fragment.
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com
Which Word - Many or Much?
Reinforce the concept of countable and uncountable nouns with a grammar learning exercise that looks closely at the the use of how much or how many.