Are you looking for a great book to teach, comparing an actual event to its fictional account? If so, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gertein is a great picture book for doing just that. The book is also a wonderful resource for highlighting the character traits of courage and triumph. Lesson …
Category: Seasonal Activities
Welcome to our seasonal activities blog index page, where you can find all our blog posts for upper elementary teachers on various seasonal topics. Teaching can be challenging, especially when you must keep your students interested and motivated throughout the year. That’s why we’ve created a range of blog posts to help you celebrate holidays, special days, and days of celebration with your students.
Whether you are looking for ideas to celebrate holidays such as Christmas and Halloween, special days such as Groundhog Day and April Fool’s Day, or national and worldwide days of celebration such as World Smile Day and King Tut Day, we have some seasonal activities for you. You can find fun and educational activities, games, crafts, books, videos, and more to make these days memorable and meaningful for your students.
You can also browse our blog posts on seasonal activities that enhance your curriculum, such as The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Book Study, which teachers might add to their study of 9/11, and Teaching Students about Kindness, which works well for Valentine’s Day or World Kindness Day. These activities will help your students develop essential skills such as reading comprehension, critical thinking, empathy, and social responsibility.
Our blog posts are designed to provide engaging, creative, and educational resources you can use in your classroom. We hope you enjoy reading them and find them helpful. Happy teaching!
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Jan 17
Winter Poems including Figurative Language
Are you looking for a new twist on teaching poetic elements? Check out these seven activities that use winter figurative language and poems. Winter idioms, Jack Frost, and snow make for high-interest topics during the cold, winter months. Students will find rhyming schemes, identify figurative language, and analyze what is taking place in the poems. …
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Nov 15
Teaching Compare & Contrast with Christmas Stories
If you are looking for some Christmas stories to teach your students how to compare and contrast, check out The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story. These two stories are set in the Appalachian Mountains and have heartwarming and educational themes. They are suitable for students at a mid-third-grade reading level, …
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Nov 08
Christmas Compare-Contrast Writing Prompts
Are you looking for some new activities to add to your lesson plans? Inspire your students this holiday season with these 10 Christmas Compare-Contrast Writing Prompts. Whether you’re looking for quick morning reviews, entry or exit activities, or even assignments for learning centers, these prompts are perfect. Plus, they’re available in printable and Google Slides …
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Oct 11
5 Halloween Activities
Halloween is the perfect excuse to mix a little spooky fun into your lesson plans, and these five activities are designed to do just that. Whether you’re teaching in costume or just trying to survive the sugar rush, this set of classroom-ready ideas will keep your students engaged, learning, and laughing (with just a few …
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Oct 04
Halloween Animated Shorts
If you’ve ever searched for Halloween animated shorts, you know the struggle is real. One second you’re watching a perfectly adorable cartoon… and then BAM, something wildly inappropriate pops up in the last five seconds. (Cue teacher panic: Where’s the remote? Where’s the mute button?). I’ve already done the heavy lifting for you. These films …
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Aug 30
Roald Dahl Day
Every year Roald Dahl Day is celebrated on September 13, Dahl’s birthday. Have an exceptional Roald Dahl Day with some of these resources! Lesson Handout The handouts for this post are available in the Fall Vault, along with other fun fall activities your students will love. You’ll find printables and instructions for all the activities mentioned …
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