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Children will identify different family holiday traditions.
Social Studies Focus: family traditions
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
Paired Text: Let’s Celebrate! Special Days Around the World by Kate DePalma
Paired Text: Let’s Celebrate! Special Days Around the World by Kate DePalma
- Simple, rhyming text and colorful illustrations introduce kids to a wonderful array of cultural traditions from all over the world.
- This book is great for broadening knowledge and perspective, and even includes transliterations so you’re sure to pronounce each holiday correctly.
Shared Writing: Holiday Words
Shared Writing: Holiday Words
- Together, create an anchor chart of holiday words. You can start with words from the issue, like tradition, gingerbread, tree, candles, cards, and presents.
- Invite kids to share their own traditions and add more key words to the chart, such as lights, decorations, hot cocoa, and so on.
Hands-on Activity: Make a Holiday Keepsake
Hands-on Activity: Make a Holiday Keepsake
Skill: art, social-emotional learning
Materials: mitten poem template, washable paint, markers
- Invite kids to make a holiday gift their families will treasure! Pass out the template. If you like, mount the sheet on construction paper for durability.
- Have kids dip their hands in washable paint and press to make handprints inside the mittens.
- When dry, kids can decorate the mitten cuff s with crayons and markers. Finally, have them write or dictate their name and the year.