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Theme: Holiday Traditions Volume III, Issue 4 |
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Legend of the Poinsettia A Creative Writing Activity After reading this wonderful legend about the Mexican wildflower, flor de fuego(fire flower), motivate students to write about the legend by creating a template in Microsoft Word with a watermark. The watermark can be in color or you can apply grayscale. If time does not allow, you can print and make copies for them to work with pencil and paper but ideally you can format a text box and let them create at the computer. Create your own writing prompts or use one of the examples below:
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Early American Christmas An Early American Christmas is a story that Tomie dePaola wrote after researching historical facts about the first evidence of Christmas celebration in the early 1800's. After reading this wonderful story, students can create a class slideshow that tells about their families' traditions. They can also go on a scavenger hunt to learn more about the history of Christmas trees in early America. |
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Our Family Holiday Traditions
Create a Class Slideshow Brainstorm with students using Inspiration or draw a large web on the board to highlight some of the students' family traditions. After brainstorming give each student the opportunity to design a slide in Microsoft PowerPoint to depict a special family tradition celebrated by their family during the holiday season. Use the storyboard template provided or create one to suit your needs in PowerPoint. |
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on a Christmas Tree Scavenger Hunt Students can learn interesting facts and the history of the Christmas tree by touring the preselected sites on this Internet scavenger hunt. Students can use the scavenger hunt page to type in the information or you can print the answer sheet for written responses.
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Estimating Christmas Trees! The Christmas tree is a tradition at many homes during the holiday season. Selecting just the right tree is a very important. Students will have fun viewing just the right tree by cruising the photo album from The Branch House Tree Farm in Crossnore, North Carolina. The objective of this activity is to view the different tree sizes and estimate their height. They can then plug their estimations into the template that gives the actual tree height and create their graphs to show how their estimations compare with actual trees' heights! |
The Branch House Tree Farm |
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| The Night Tree - A wonderful book by Eve Bunting. Here is a KidPix lesson for the primary student. This is a very simple lesson but ideal for showing students how to use the tools in Kid Pix Deluxe! | |||
| 42Explore - Christmas Around the World! There are so many of my favorite links connected at this site. Pleasant Grove Elementary and KSU are linked from this vast resource. Time yourself for at least thirty minutes to an hour to visit the resources here! | |||
| The Little Tree - This is a hotlist of sites for the younger student to enjoy during the holiday season. These activities help the student work on visual memory skills, discrimination and eye hand coordination. | |||
| Awesome Christmas Clip Art for Kids - These graphics can be used in many different types of publications, student generated or teacher generated! | |||
| Holiday Downloads - A great resource from Teach-ology.com for the creative teacher! | |||
| Kathy Adkins |
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