NO-PREP CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSROOM

 

LAST MINUTE, No-Prep Christmas Bundle!

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GOLDILOCKS & THE CHRISTMAS ELVES

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Fun last minute Readers' Theater for just-before-the-holidays reading activities! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Goldilocks-The-Christmas-Elves-Readers-Theater-Performance-Christmas-Script-443096

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PERFECT FOR LAST MINUTE, CHRISTMAS-THEMED ACTIVITIES IN READING AND WRITING!

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GOLDILOCKS & THE CHRISTMAS ELVES

READERS THEATER FOR CHRISTMAS!
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Holiday Performance Readers Theater!

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Do you have a class holiday performance coming up? Readers Theater gets the job done easily, and with loads of fun! Try Goldilocks and the Christmas Elves this holiday season; your class -- and your audience -- are sure to love it!

NEW! Thanksgiving Story: What Holiday? with worksheets!

HERE'S A NEW ELA -- NO PREP!! -- THANKSGIVING READING & COMPREHENSION MINI PACKET FOR YOUR LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY TEACHING ACTIVITIES!

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LAST MINUTE THANKSGIVING ACTIVITIES!

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The Mixed-Up (& Messy!) Thanksgiving Holiday: A Readers Theater Script

THE MIXED-UP (& MESSY) THANKSGIVING: A READERS THEATER PLAY

I remember a Thanksgiving when….

We all have those stories, don’t we? Like the time my daughter set the oven on fire, or when I spilled hot coffee on a guest, or the arguments that just might get started between dinner and dessert, with so many different relatives at the table! 

In this Thanksgiving play, the kids get things turned upside down and just can’t seem to get the holiday right! Top that with a Thanksgiving accident, and it becomes a very memorable holiday indeed! Some characters might know more than they let on though; see which ones your students think are “in the know,” which ones are bluffing, and which ones are genuinely confused. Get them to talk about their own Thanksgiving family traditions as well, once you finish the play, and maybe even write their own Thanksgiving stories!

Try out this light-hearted Thanksgiving Readers Theater script with your grade 4 to 6 classes (with very brave 3rd grade classes and any willing 7th graders welcome to try it out as well!). A printable Play Title Card and all Character Cards are included to help you stage your production. (Simply print onto card stock, cut out, punch two holes — one at either end, and thread string or yarn through, tying at ends, for students to wear around their necks while reading or performing their play. Have fun, and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Thanksgiving No-Prep ELA Mini-Bundle!

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Thanksgiving Language Arts (Literacy) Mini Pack:

This little packet is great for last-minute Thanksgiving-themed literacy activities, for grades 4 through 8. It includes:

- Thanksgiving using Hyperbole
- Corny Words - words containing "corn"
- Thanksgiving: Being Grateful Acrostic
- Thanksgiving Tales: A Creative Writing Worksheet
- Thanksgiving Word Play
- Writing Adjectives with a Descriptive Thanksgiving Menu
- Thanksgiving Reading and Spelling Challenge
- Answer Key for teachers
- and 6 printable Thanksgiving Stationery choices

Printable Gingerbread Man Activities!

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More "just before the holidays" easy activities!

For an engaging, easy-to-use, whole-class activity, try Readers' Theater: Goldilocks & The Christmas Elves: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Goldilocks-The-Christmas-Elves-Readers-Theater-Performance-Christmas-Script-443096

Need activities to help you through this week?

Try the NO-PREP Christmas packet:

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WATCH OUT, GINGERBREAD MAN! (K-3, poem & activities/printables)

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The Gingerbread Man: An ELA & Math Unit for PreK-2

PreK-2 ELA & Math GINGERBREAD MAN Unit!
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Christmas NO PREP Bundle (Middle School ELA)

Christmas NO PREP Bundle! (Middle School ELA)
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Great for last minute activities leading up to the holidays, with ready-to-use printable activities for students in grades 5 though 8. Great for subs as well, with punctuation, grammar, capitalization, finding spelling errors in text, creative writing exercises, challenges and more!

Great last minute project: Readers' Theater!

Here's a great last minute project for those daze before Christmas: Goldilocks & The Christmas Elves Readers' Theater (grades 4-8). Now with Character Cards & Prop Signs!
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Now Available: A FREE Character Cards & Prop Signs Bundle for Goldilocks & The Christmas Elves!

Now Available! If you're planning on staging the (wonderful! hilarious!) readers' theater play "Goldilocks and The Christmas Elves this season, here's a great little bundle (33 pages) of printable character cards and prop signs to help out your performance. ENJOY! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Goldilocks-The-Christmas-Elves-Character-Cards-Prop-Signs-2909016

Christmas NO PREP ELA Bundle!

Those "Daze" Before Christmas are coming up quickly, that period between one holiday and the next. Need some No Prep, high interest projects and printables for your middle school students? Try ELA Christmas-themed bundle, with ready-to-go worksheets on hyperbole, mystery genre, capitalization, alliteration, possessive nouns and much more - all with the holiday spirit injected to make them appealing!

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Just in time for Christmas! Reader's Theater

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CHRISTMAS RESOURCES!

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Looking for a Christmas performance Readers' Theater play?

Or how about a unit for The Gingerbread Man?

Find a winter-themed Where Are My Mittens? readers' theater for early grades!

Need some great Christmas clipart?

Or try a Gingerbread Man Shape Book, with many project ideas....

Reader's Theater for Christmas! Goldilocks & The Christmas Elves

Goldilocks & the Christmas Elves: A Reader's Theater Script

Get ready for a rip-roaring romp across the North Pole in this mixed-up fairy tale Christmas play. Goldilocks wakes up Sleeping Beauty and transports her to the North Pole, and what follows is a hilarious adventure with lovable and memorable characters, including Santa Claus himself, and a madcap variety of Christmas Elves! 

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LAST MINUTE, NO PREP, THANKSGIVING THEMED LITERACY MINI-BUNDLE

THANKSGIVING LITERACY PACKET   Grades 4-8

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Here's a great little mini-bundle for grades 4-8, with all activities Thanksgiving-themed, with NO PREP - perfect for last minute Thanksgiving English Language Arts activities! Fourteen pages in this mini-pack include:

- Thanksgiving, using Hyperbole
- Corny Words - words containing "corn"
- Thanksgiving: Being Grateful Acrostic
- Thanksgiving Tales: A Creative Writing Worksheet
- Thanksgiving Word Play
- Writing Adjectives with a Descriptive Thanksgiving Menu
- Thanksgiving Reading and Spelling Challenge
- Answer Key for teachers
- and 6 printable Thanksgiving Stationery choices

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READER'S THEATER: FREE FOR THANKSGIVING, FOR A LIMITED TIME!

THANKSGIVING READER'S THEATER FOR GRADES 3-5:
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*F*R*E*E* for a limited time, and this year only!

Just in time for Thanksgiving, two friends explore the meaning of this special holiday. They discuss why it's important to celebrate Thanksgiving, and what gratitude means to each of them - all in a lighthearted, often humorous, and endearing conversation. Grades 3-5 (five pages).

FREE GINGERBREAD MAN TEACHING RESOURCES!

FREE: 

MOVABLE, HINGED GINGERBREAD MAN
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FREE:

GINGERBREAD MAN SHAPE BOOK:
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Baby Polar Bear Shape Book with Primary Lines Page, & Movable, Hinged Polar Bear

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Shape Book Activities for Winter, Winter Animals, or Polar Express Unit!

Print and Assemble Hinged Gingerbread Man (Free Resource)

PRINT AND ASSEMBLE HINGED GINGERBREAD MAN
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Access this wonderful (free) and easy Print and Assemble Hinged Gingerbread Man to complement your Gingerbread Man unit! They make great additions to your unit as puppets, bulletin board displays, props for Readers' Theater or plays or prompts for ELA exercises - see page 1 for instructions and teaching suggestions, and enjoy! 

*While you're there, you'll find a free Gingerbread Man Shape book as well!

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It's that time of year…. Get ready for your holiday program:

It's that time of year…. Get ready for your holiday program:

CHRISTMAS READER'S THEATER: GOLDILOCKS & THE CHRISTMAS ELVES

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Get ready for a rip-roaring romp across the North Pole in this mixed-up fairy tale Christmas play. Goldilocks wakes up Sleeping Beauty and transports her to the North Pole, and what follows is a hilarious adventure with lovable and memorable characters, including Santa Claus himself, and a madcap variety of Christmas Elves!

A NEW READER'S THEATER - FOR BACK TO SCHOOL!

BACK TO SCHOOL - ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! 

A READER'S THEATER SCRIPT FOR GRADES 2-4 (3rd grade target)

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Get your back to school time rolling right along with a wacky, wonderful Reader’s Theater play! It’s a chance to jump right into reading with a cooperative - and often hilarious - project, and, if you like, an opportunity for your students to work together on a performance piece for Back to School Night.

There are two versions of this script: the first is a regular Reader’s Theater, which can be used by up to 5 students in your Reading Centers or during any classroom Reading Time, as you wish. The second version is for 20 students (and can be adjusted for more or fewer students, to suit your class size), to be used as a whole class reading exercise, a class performance, or for actual performance - it’s perfect for a Back to School Night, or Open House Night!

This Reader’s Theater script is tailored to 3rd grade, with a few extra vocabulary terms introduced (I always believe in introducing new vocabulary!). Note that advanced 2nd grade readers might wish to use it, and 4th grade classes might find it enjoyable as well.

*Back to School Reader’s Theater worksheets will be posted to accompany the script, with reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, contractions, compound words, Spanish flashcards, conditionals, plurals, and discussion questions.

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New Reader's Theater Script: WHERE ARE MY MITTENS??

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Where Are My Mittens? is a ready-to-go, Reader's Theater script, written with a lighthearted touch and a winter or winter holidays theme.

Two characters, a brother and sister, get ready to go outside and play in the snow. But wait.... do they know where their mittens are?

Color words, simple contractions, to and too, demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, possessive adjectives, place prepositions, they're and there, winter clothing, winter weather, where and wear, "ea" dipthong, simple compound words, and sequencing are all practiced, with a few new vocabulary words introduced.

This script can easily be used as a performance piece (get students to "dress up" in their own winter clothing, or in funny, large clothes, etc.), with different "teams" performing. You can use it in your reading centers, or refine it for a Holiday Performance selection - parents will love it too!

Reading Level: 2nd-3rd grades.
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Goldilocks & the Christmas Elves: A Reader's Theater Script

Goldilocks & the Christmas Elves: A Reader's Theater Script

Get ready for a rip-roaring romp across the North Pole in this mixed-up fairy tale Christmas play. Goldilocks wakes up Sleeping Beauty and transports her to the North Pole, and what follows is a hilarious adventure with lovable and memorable characters, including Santa Claus himself, and a madcap variety of Christmas Elves! PERFECT for a Holiday Performance for grades 4-9.

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LAST MINUTE, NO-PREP, THANKSGIVING LITERACY PACKET!

THANKSGIVING LITERACY PACKET   Grades 4-8

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Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving? Is it a huge family feast in your home?

It usually is for us, but this year is going to be so quiet, with family members away. I'm not sure how I feel about it - a little forlorn I guess, but I have to admit too that there is less stress for planning.

Leading up to Thanksgiving in the classroom I always needed a few extra activities to keep the kids engaged, and incorporating the holiday theme always seemed to help, whether in math with shopping costs tasks, or with writing and literacy tasks. (For math, get flyers and have them plan a menu, "shop" the local stores through the ads, tally all costs, and come up with a viable meal with a given budget. Or compare store costs for given items on the busiest shopping day of the year. Plan a budget for gift-giving, make a list, and see how many of those items can be covered, tallying up the costs with shopping the sales, again through the weekly ads. Younger kids can make pie charts to graph the Thanksgiving pie preferences.)

I have compiled a mini-pack of useful writing and literacy worksheets here to help you out, and I've thrown in six printable pages of Thanksgiving stationery as well, useful for final writing projects, being grateful letters, etc.

I hope you find this mini-pack useful right now, and I also hope you get a restful long weekend holiday! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

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This little packet is great for last-minute Thanksgiving-themed literacy activities, for grades 4 through 8. Fourteen pages in this mini-pack include:

- Thanksgiving using Hyperbole
- Corny Words - words containing "corn"
- Thanksgiving: Being Grateful Acrostic
- Thanksgiving Tales: A Creative Writing Worksheet
- Thanksgiving Word Play
- Writing Adjectives with a Descriptive Thanksgiving Menu
- Thanksgiving Reading and Spelling Challenge
- Answer Key for teachers
- and 6 printable Thanksgiving Stationery choices

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Olympic Winter Games Colorful Mitten Word Walls

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Celebrate the Olympic Winter Games 2014 with these colorful word wall or vocabulary cards!

Need some activities? Try these:

Mix up your word wall activities with the blank templates and the sports names for older students: have them write down the USA team athlete names, and then match them up (game style, or on a bulletin board display) to the correct sport.

For older students as well, you can shuffle the cards, hand out three cards apiece, and have students write an Olympic Games paragraph, incorporating those terms, of course!

Use the cards also on bulletin boards, as title markers. Bring in stats for winners, news clippings, etc. and post them under each mitten title/header.

Finally, hold a spelling bee with the cards. Shuffle your deck. Line up your students. Give them the name of the term on the card you pull, which the student then has to spell (and/or define). You can split your students into "country teams" for this one, and see who gets the gold, silver, and bronze!

GO TEAM USA!

Just in Time! A Middle School Christmas-Themed Literacy Packet

Are you feeling a wee bit frazzled, with the holidays fast approaching? The good news is: THE HOLIDAYS ARE FAST APPROACHING!! Of course, the bad news is, probably everyone is feeling a little antsy, and it's hard to maintain attention with all the Christmas distractions. Nevertheless, you have to keep the learning happening up to the bell, right? So here's a little something to help you out: A 37-page writing and literacy Christmas-themed packet of exercises for grades 6 through 9 (and maybe even 5 though 10, depending on the abilities/levels of your students).
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Here's what's included:

-  Applying better word descriptions with a Christmas tree

-  Christmas terms alphabetical order (& answer key)

-  Christmas Hyperbole & worksheet

-  Christmas "whodunit" writing assignment (& worksheets)

-  Mystery genre elements printable

-  Challenging Christmas Word Scramble

-  Christmas Carol Ordering & Capitalization of Titles

-  Holiday Alliterations worksheet

-  Holly Leaf missing letters (& answer key)

-  Literary holiday dioramas teaching ideas

-  Mixed-up Christmas Syllables (& answer key)

-  Night Before Christmas Spelling Challenge (& answer keys & worksheet)

-  Possessive Christmas Nouns (& answer key)

-  Rewriting Scrooge 

-  Revisiting the Twelve Days of Christmas (& worksheet)

-  Spelling with the Christmas Elves (& answer key)

-  and, just to throw in a little holiday treat, find 5 pages of Holiday Stationery selections for your Christmas writing projects. One is included below, which you can download as a sample at the link below (or above :)

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Gingerbread Man Unit Math & Literacy Resources

Just in time?

I've been scrambling to get this packet done before the holidays (I've also been trying to get a mini Christmas literacy packet, but it just might have to wait until next year!).

There are 87 pages of Gingerbread Man resources for math & literacy learning fun; go ahead and take a look!
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