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!

Groundhog Day Activities

Groundhog Day Activities

Check out these five Groundhog Day activities. Students will enjoy learning why we celebrate this holiday. The cookie recipe is not only delicious but cute. Be sure to download the free printables as well. 5 Groundhog Day Activities Get the handout with all activities including the link to the Google Slides by clicking on the …

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Winter Poems including Figurative Language

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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Teaching Compare & Contrast with Christmas Stories

Teaching Compare and Contrast with Christmas Books

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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Christmas Compare-Contrast Writing Prompts

Christmas Compare and 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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5 Halloween Activities

Halloween Activities

  Add a little fun to Halloween with these five activities. First, students will practice reading a table of information and then have a trivia scavenger hunt to learn some interesting facts about Halloween. The interesting topics are fun to research and to learn about. Students will also learn how to write an analogy poem. …

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Halloween Animated Shorts

Halloween Animated Shorts

Students love watching animated shorts. You can find dozens of Halloween animated shorts with just a few searches; however, many are not classroom-friendly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched a terrific film to reach the last few seconds and heard an inappropriate word. So, I’ve done the viewing for you. These films …

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Roald Dahl Day

Roald Dahl Day Novel Study

Every year Roald Dahl Day is celebrated on September 13, Dahl’s birthday. Have an exceptional Roald Dahl Day with some of these resources! Be sure to get the handout. It includes the printables you need to complete some of the activities. Get the handout. So, who was Roald Dahl? Roald Dahl was a children’s author of …

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