¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Lesson Plan
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will identify and follow some New Year’s holiday traditions.
Social Studies Focus:
holidays and traditions
Page 4 Skill:
counting
Vocabulary:
celebrar, fuegos artifi ciales, medianoche, propósito, tradición, Víspera de
Año Nuevo
CCSS:
RI.K.1, RF.K.3.C, L.K.1, SL.K.2
1. Build Knowledge With a Video
- Watch our video ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! to show kids different New Year’s traditions from around the world! Afterward, ask: “¿Qué tradición te gustaría practicar? ¿Por qué?”
2. Read, Think, and Talk
- Read the magazine together.
- Use the Demuestra lo que sabes skill sheet as a follow-up activity. You can project it and discuss the questions together, or send it home for kids to work on with families.
3. Fun Skills Practice
- Children practice sightword recognition while putting on their own dazzling New Year’s fireworks show with our online game Fuegos artificiales de palabras frecuentes..
- You can also have kids practice sight words with crayons and paper! They can reveal a mystery picture with our Colorea las palabras frecuentes skill sheet.
Hands-on Activity
Haz un propósito

Materials: Los propósitos de Año Nuevo, crayons, pencils
- Print out copies of Los propósitos de Año Nuevo. Let children choose a design, color it, and cut it out.
- Next, help kids cut out the writing sections. Have them finish the sentence to write their resolution. They can get ideas from the issue or come up with their own, for example, I will try to eat more vegetables; I will help walk the dog; or I will practice learning to skateboard!
- Finally, kids can fold and tape the tab of their horn, balloon, or glasses so it covers their writing. If you like, place children’s work on display. They can f lip up the New Year’s designs to see each other’s resolutions!