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Elementary school worksheets that focus on various holidays offer a fun and educational way to engage students throughout the year. These themed worksheets are designed to align with major holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter, as well as less commonly celebrated events such as Earth Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Presidents' Day. By incorporating holiday-themed activities into their lesson plans, teachers can capture students' interest and make learning more enjoyable, while reinforcing important concepts in subjects like math, reading, and writing.

Teachers can use these printable holiday worksheets to supplement classroom instruction in a variety of ways. For example, math worksheets might feature counting candy for Halloween, solving turkey-themed word problems for Thanksgiving, or calculating the cost of gifts for Christmas. Reading comprehension worksheets might include passages about historical events related to Presidents' Day or the significance of Earth Day, followed by questions that challenge students to think critically. Writing activities can also be holiday-themed, such as crafting Valentine's Day poems or writing letters to Santa Claus, allowing students to practice their creative writing skills.

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How to Design Holiday Homework- 5 Tips

World-renowned clinical child psychologist and best-selling author, Dr. Ross Greene said that No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework, and then, going to bed.

Holiday homework is intended to make students independent and enhance their skills and capabilities. Holiday homework helps to keep students on track and keep their brains ticking. While holiday homework ensures that the students don’t lose touch with what they have learned, it is important to give them enough space to enjoy the holidays. To ensure the same, you have got to analyze the feasibility of the work that you are assigning them and the gravity. Without further ado, let us take a look at five important things that teachers should keep in mind while assigning holiday homework to their students.

1. Understand Your Students

The first and most important thing that you have to take into consideration is your students. Understanding your students is the first step. The holiday homework should be on par with their capacity and ability. Of course, there’s no harm in making it challenging and pushing their limits a little but make sure to strike a balance. There’s no point in talking Latin when your students don’t understand the language. Assigning holiday homework that is way beyond their intellectual capacity or way below their capacity will not do them any good and that’s why you have got to understand them. There might be students who like challenges and to address this population of the classroom you can create an additional section on the assignment sheet and make it optional. Make sure not to discriminate against your students based on this optional section.

2. Define the Objectives

What do you want your students to accomplish through the holiday homework? For example, if the holiday homework is to write a poem, what are the learning objectives? That the students should understand the structure of the poetry, poetic figures, and poetic justice? The teacher must have a clear sense of the same. In addition to this, the teacher must be able to articulate the learning objectives to the students so that they can do complete justice to the holiday homework.

3. Make it Interesting

More often than not, students find holiday homework boring and drab. While designing the holiday work, teachers should put in the effort to make it challenging and interesting. If it is a simple coloring exercise, you can give tiny riddles about the colors and they have to figure out what the color is. Similarly, you can make all the work interesting so that the students would ill feel like doing it.

4. Keep Parent Involvement to a Minimum

Let’s face it. More than 90% of homework is done by parents. If you ask second graders to make the model of the Taj Mahal, of course, the parents would do it. This is why we mentioned in the first step that the teachers should understand the students and give them a mountain that they can climb. As mentioned, articulate the learning objectives and while interacting with the parents, let them know that you are expecting minimum involvement from them. If you are assigning holiday homework to high school students and students in higher grades, this step can be skipped.

5. Clarify the Criteria

On what basis are you going to grade the holiday homework? The criteria and the grading pattern must be transparent so that the students have a clear understanding of what to focus on. When you are designing the holiday homework, create a proper framework that you want to stick by and share with your students.

Holiday homework is an amazing way to let your students stand close to what they have learned. As mentioned, it is important to strike a balance and help your students have a good holiday while learning new skills and polishing the existing ones. It is up to the teacher to make homework dull or interesting and the tips that we have discussed are sure to make it the latter. Go ahead and create homework that the students would enjoy doing!

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8 top holiday literacy resources your students will love + freebies.

December is often a busy time not just in the classroom, but in our personal lives as well. That coupled with the holiday excitement that the students bring to school each day, it can feel overwhelming to manage everyone and everything. I found over the years that when I bring the holiday fun into the classroom with purposeful, engaging activities, things seem to feel a bit less chaotic. So I say let’s bring on the Polar Express, holidays around the world, and reindeer by including holiday literacy activities in lesson planning.

Today I want to share some of my favorite holiday literacy resources to add some holiday cheer to your literacy block. Additionally, many of these resources also make great displays for the hallway or your classroom.

Why I Love Integrating Literacy and Holidays

During a busy season like the holidays, you can make more time to do fun holiday activities and crafts when you get creative with how you fit them into your day. Through read alouds, shared reading, interactive notebook activities, writing crafts, and themed centers, we can easily integrate reading and writing through the season to bring holiday cheer in our classrooms while improving literacy skills.

I also love any opportunity to sneak in extra practice with writing conventions, reading comprehension, and word work. When we do activities that are truly engaging, my students don’t always realize that they are learning and practicing important skills at the same time.

Top Holiday Literacy Activities

These are some of my favorite holiday literacy activities for kinder, first, and second grades. I also sprinkled in some freebies , so be sure to check them out!

December Literacy Stations

One great way to bring holiday literacy activities to your classroom is through literacy centers. Holiday-themed literacy stations always bring cheer to your reading block time! The December Literacy Stations has seven centers for you to use this month:

• Book Making
• Sight Words
• Pocket Chart

With simple-to-prep stations, you and your students will all love these engaging activities!

Get December Literacy Stations HERE!

Gingerbread Writing Craftivity

The Gingerbread Writing Craftivity is perfect for your students to self-assess their own writing! For each writing convention, the students earn a part of their gingerbread kid. It’s a great way to integrate some meaningful writing and be purposeful with an adorable craft! Plus, the finished activity makes a great display for the holiday season.

Get the Gingerbread Writing Craftivity HERE!

Gingerbread Man Activities and Literacy Activities

With 18 different reading and writing activities for everything gingerbread, this Gingerbread Printables resource will bring a ton of fun to your literacy time! The gingerbread holiday literacy activities include retelling, sequencing, comparing different gingerbread books, a mini book, writing activities, and everything you need for a gingerbread man hunt!

Get the Gingerbread Printables HERE!

FREE Mouse and Movie Retelling Activity

After reading the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies , use this FREE Mouse and Movies Retelling activity for students to practice sequencing. My students and I loved any chance we could to make a purposeful craft! For younger students, they can draw what happens in the book. First and second graders can write (and draw) the events.

Get the FREE Mouse and Movies Activity HERE!

Holiday Flip Books

These 19 Holiday Flip Books are perfect for your social studies or science interactive notebooks. They can be used after reading The Polar Express, after an elf visits your classroom, or as you learn about reindeer! They are also a great fit for teaching about Christmas Around the World and are a great way to integrate literacy!

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Christmas Around the World Flip Up Book Bundle

Do you teach Christmas around the world, but struggle to find a way for students to document their learning and keep up with each country’s traditions? The Christmas Around the World Flip Up Books are for you!

They are the perfect little activities for your students to be engaged as they learn about Christmas Around the World! Each flip book includes reading, sorting, and writing! It is easy to create with the printing instructions that are included.

Get the Christmas Around the World Flip Up Books HERE!

Winter Word Making Freebie

This little activity has three mystery word making activities for you to do whole group, in a small group, or even to drop in a word work center. You could also make it a competition during your holiday party. Students will use the letters provided and see how many words they can build. This activity is always a hit!

Get the Winter Work Making Freebie HERE!

Holidays Around the World Bundle

This Holidays Around the World unit helps students compare and contrast Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. It makes it simple to learn about Kwanzaa , Hanukkah , and Christmas as you celebrate them all! You’ll easily integrate reading and writing with social studies with each of these resources.

Each resource has graphic organizers, vocabulary cards, sorting activities, and a craft. You’ll be set for social studies for the whole month with packing in lots of literacy at the same time! I bundled them together so you get all three units for the price of two!

Get the Holidays Around the World Bundle HERE!

I know the month of December can feel a little chaotic in the classroom. That’s why I like to harness the holiday excitement and integrate holiday fun into reading and writing as much as possible. All of these holiday literacy activities do just that! You can also shop my whole shop’s Christmas and holiday section of resources HERE .

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This post contains some affiliate links. Purchasing from these links helps me keep this blog running to share education ideas with this community. Thank you for supporting teachers! It’s almost winter break and your students are going to be at home with family, eating, possibly playing video games, and maybe even enjoying some snow! You want to make sure they are learning, right? Winter break homework is essential! Send home these 5 assignments to give over winter break to make sure your students come back to school ready to learn!

1. Be kind.

Kindness doesn’t cost a thing. First, encourage your students to choose kindness every time they can. Hold the door open for a stranger, bite their tongue when they really want to snap at a sibling or a parent, and do a needed chore without being asked. #Bekind may seem like a trendy mantra for schools, but it’s really a way of life that spreads the holiday spirit. Winter break homework should be all about kindness!

#BeKind can't just be a hashtag. We have to live and model it to our Ss every day. In your words online and in person, show those around you at even though it can be tough to #choosekindness , you never know what someone is going through. Learn their story and #bekind . pic.twitter.com/ACymQgmuVz — Jen Schneider (@jenmschneider) August 7, 2018

2. Sleep in.

Teachers, students, parents all deserve some rest! When we get time off, we should use it to let our bodies relax. School starts so early for most kids, so give them an assignment to sleep in a bit (with parental permission and without sleeping the whole day away, of course)!

3. Spend some time with people you care about.

No matter what holiday (if any) your students celebrate over the break, hopefully they will be surrounded by people who they love and care about. Keep in mind, this isn’t the case for every student in your school.

For some, school is their happy place, and home is not the best place to be. For these (and really all) students, make sure they know how much you care before they leave for the break. I don’t send my 100+ middle schoolers home with gifts (I have to watch my wallet too), but I try to let them know every day (through words and actions) that I really do care about them. If you’re worried about a student being safe over break, you should let a counselor know. If it’s more than just a worry, make sure to go through the proper channels to report suspected abuse.

4. Take a nap.

Even if your students slept in, they could take a nap (provided they wake up before nap time). I promise, I will be taking a mid-day snooze on December 26 after my sugar cookie coma and Lego overload (holy cow my daughter has some Legos under the tree. . .shh. . .) subsides!

5. Read. . .anything.

OK, this sounds like a true homework assignment, but I am simply recommending for my students to read ANYTHING over break. Turn on the closed captioning on YouTube videos and Netflix shows. Read a blog post or a web article about Minecraft. Take a trip to the library and check out the latest Neal Shusterman Scythe book or an inclusive LGBTQ YA title . Anything goes over winter break. JUST READ!

Here are a few favorite titles I recommend!

Elementary Readers:

• Pax by Sarah Pennypacker

Middle School Readers:

(My middle schoolers recommend these titles!)

• The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

High School Readers:

• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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These 5 homework assignments to give over winter break will have your students back to school refreshed and ready to learn in January! Of course, sending students home with bundles of worksheets, packets, and work is not recommended. “Homework” should be about enjoying time with family and a well-deserved break for teachers and students!

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This time of year, students are excited about the holidays.

And they’re often excited for different reasons, of course. Elementary students are learning holiday traditions and enjoying festive songs and stories, while middle and high school students are eagerly counting down the days to vacation! And with Thanksgiving and Christmas break quickly approaching, you might be seeing less enthusiasm for classwork in your older students.

Holiday Activities For The Elementary School Classroom

1. (Kindergarten)  Handprint Reindeer

An entire collection of reindeer activities with all the best reindeer crafts, learning activities, and even reindeer snacks.

2. (1st-2nd Grade)  Santa Claus is busy

Practice verb tense in this simple holiday-themed activity.

3. (4th-5th Grade)  Creative Writing Prompt

Have students write one to two paragraphs answering the question, “What does ‘holiday spirit’ mean to you?” Have them focus on correct spelling and grammar. For added difficulty, list specific parts of speech (adjectives, verbs, adverbs) for them to use, underline and label in their writing.

4. (3rd-5th) A Creative Christmas Wish List

Have students make a Christmas wish list but with some specific criteria. You could have them come up with a wish list for their parents–or favorite book character or sports team. You could even get creative and ask students to create a wish list for something academic. For example, what would a tree’s root system ‘want’ for Christmas? Inert gases–what do they ‘want’? Couplets in a Shakespearean sonnet–what might they ‘want’?

Holiday Activities For The Middle School Classroom

5. (6th-8th Grade)  Holiday Math Word Problems

Create holiday-themed word problems that mix holiday festivities with your current math lessons.

6. (6th-8th Grade)  Rewriting the Holidays PAFT-Style

Draw out your students’ creative writing skills with this fun writing project. Students choose any holiday tale and rewrite it using the PAFT format. Consider ‘Frosty The Snowman,’ for example.

Premise & Perspective: Frosty is told from a third-person narrative perspective

Audience: young children

Format: short fiction/cartoon

Topic/Theme/Thesis: loyalty/faith/friendship

In this activity, students would choose one or more of the above categories and alter it to create something new. The PAFT acts both as analysis and pre-writing. Here’s an example:

Premise & Perspective: the same story told from the point-of-view of the magician

Audience: teenagers

Format: flash fiction

Topic, Theme, Thesis, or Tone: sarcastic or humorously ’emo’

7. (8th Grade) Analyze Anything

This literacy activity can be done in collaboration in the classroom. The most obvious approach is to reach for low-hanging fruit like holiday traditions–stories like The Night Before Christmas are good examples for discussing the concepts of rhythm, rhyme scheme, and figurative language.

But you can also consider analyzing the effect of the economy on gift-giving, the impact of emerging technological trends on familial traditions in their own home. You can also use the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy to create critical thinking prompts around any holiday custom, song, movie, video, symbol, etc.

For self-guided homework, you can also choose a short holiday novel for students to read and have them paraphrase in writing what the novel is about. Paraphrasing is a great skill to practice for future research and writing projects.

Holiday Activities For The High School Classroom

8. Holidays Across the World

Students research holiday traditions from different cultural standpoints. You can either assign the different cultures/countries of origin or have them randomly draw from a bowl.

From their research, have students write an essay explaining the holiday traditions observed in that culture. You can direct them to focus on whichever writing concepts they are currently practicing or simply for excellent spelling and grammar.

9. Critical Thinking About The Holidays Discussion Or Writing Prompt

Have students answer a thought-provoking question like, “Is Christmas too commercial?” They should write a brief, thoughtful answer to the question. Other choices?

Argue for or against the magician (Professor Hinkle) from ‘Frosty’ as an anti-hero. Put another way, who’s the hero of ‘Frosty’ and why?

Many people disagree about religion, consumerism, the ‘true meaning’ of the holidays, etc. Whose perspective about ‘the holidays’ is valid and why?

What are the ‘parts’ of the holidays? Analyze them from a given perspective. Factors could include culture, chronology, weather, economics, color, light, sound, food, etc. Be specific and give concrete examples.

10. Holiday Poetry Writing

Have students write a holiday-inspired poem. Students can draw from a mix of different types of poems (Ballad, Haiku, etc) and then write a poem using that poetry type. Then, students can present their poems to the class, publish digitally, or turn them into something new using PAFT.

11.   Genius Hour

This one isn’t expressly an ‘activity’ but could be used as one in a short enough duration. The idea here is for students to simply choose a topic and learn what they want, how they want–and create what they want in response. The key is how to choose the topic (try brainstorming by category) and how to learn (consider using our Genius Hour framework or self-directed learning model ).

12. QFT Time!

In addition to the Genius Hour approach above, another idea for a holiday activity for high school students is to use the QFT strategy to guide student inquiry. The idea here is to identify a topic, then come up with a series of refined and improved questions. This critical thinking-intense activity isn’t the lightest approach to holiday classroom practice, but for certain classrooms (you know who you are), it’d be the perfect fit.

As always, feel free to modify the activities listed here to suit your content area, age group, lesson planning needs, or your specific teaching style.

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The holidays can be hectic. This post shares 25 classroom learning ideas for activities and lessons to keep students engaged with learning during the holidays.

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Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays bring so much joy and excitement for many people. These holidays also bring lots of schedule changes and chances for disruption in the classroom.

This list offers twenty-five learning activities for the holidays that work very well for students in 3rd through 8th grade.

You can certainly tweak these Thanksgiving and Christmas learning activities for students in Kindergarten, first, and second grades.

The free holiday planning printables at the end of this post will help you incorporate the holidays into your classroom no matter what grade level you teach!

The best part is that many of these ideas cover more than one subject area or learning standard.

1–Plan Out Your Own Thanksgiving Feast

This activity builds in nutrition information and writing practice for students. Have your students decide what foods should be served during Thanksgiving and why. I use this Thanksgiving classroom activity with read-alouds such as ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving  by Dav Pilkey and Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey  by Joy Cowley.

Related Resource: ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Read Aloud Set

2–Analyze Poetry Through Holiday Read-Alouds and Songs

I believe in teaching poetry all year long–not just during the month of April. Since students are listening to Christmas songs so much, incorporate these catchy songs learning by teaching poetry mini-lessons with the song lyrics.

Books like How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss and The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett are great for this. Some of our favorite songs to analyze as poems are Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bell Rock.

3–“We Are Thankful” Tree Writing Assignment

Cultivating gratitude in the classroom improves the overall learning environment in amazing ways. Help students reflect on things they are thankful for with this Thanksgiving holiday writing activity. My students traced their hands (I had them make several hands of different fall colors.) and wrote things they were thankful for on each hand.

We decorated our classroom door like a tree with the hands as our tree leaves. Students enjoyed showing off their leaves each time we walked into and out of the classroom.

4–Teach Perspective During the Holidays Through Literature

This is the time of the year when the focus can be very self-centered. Students are excited to receive gifts, so they tend to catch the “gimmes.” (Gimme me this. Gimme that.)  I love using children’s literature to teach perspective and help students put themselves in another’s shoes, so to speak.

Humphrey’s First Christmas by Carol Heyer details the Christmas story from the perspective of a camel. Books like this challenge students to think about someone else’s vantage point during the holidays.

5–Festive Christmas Worksheets That Engage

Are you on the hunt for the perfect Christmas activities to keep your students engaged during the holidays? 🎄 Look no further! Our Christmas worksheets packet is a treasure trove of festive fun, designed to bring the joy of the season right into your classroom.

Here’s what makes it special:

• 🌍 Over 25 pages of Christmas-themed activities, exploring holidays around the world.
• 🎁 A variety of worksheets to suit all learning styles.
• 📚 Engaging content that makes learning in December exciting and educational.

By incorporating these activities into your December lesson plans, you’re not just filling time – you’re enriching your students’ understanding of global cultures and traditions. Watch as your classroom transforms into a vibrant learning space, buzzing with the excitement and magic of the holiday season! 🌟📖

6–Elf Letter Writing/Editing Activity

Since students are thinking like elves, I have them write and edit elf-letters to keep them engaged during the holidays! This one is a hit because students love pointing out all the mistakes they find in the elf-letters.

I amp up the engagement factor by purchasing elf and reindeer headbands from The Dollar Tree for students to wear while they pretend to be elf editors and writers. Yes, older kids really get a kick out of wearing these silly headbands.

7–Holiday How-To Essays & Video Tutorials

How-to’s and tutorials are wonderful because students can use technology with their learning. I give them a writing assignment like “How to Build a Gingerbread House.”

They write a detailed essay on it, then they work with a partner to film themselves describing their steps in a succinct video. We use our class iPads to record and edit the videos.

I upload the finished videos to our Class Dojo Parent Portal or in a shared file on our Class Google Drive for parents to see.

Students LOVE completing these how-to’s during the holidays. Here are more tutorial ideas for  Christmas learning activities:

8–Solve Mystery Pictures Related to the 12 Days of Christmas Song

Another fun way to review what you’ve learned AND have fun during the holidays is with this “12 Days of Christmas” activity.

Each gift from the song is shown on Google slides, but there’s a catch: each picture has been broken apart and is now a mystery that students must put back together!

❤️ Your students will solve each “12 Days of Christmas” mystery picture by using math and language arts. Then they will click on the Answer Key button to see if they are correct. I’ve also included a section that gives students a chance to match the picture/gift with the song lyrics.

❤️ This Christmas activity also has real pictures of the items mentioned in the song. For example, your students will see an actual partridge in a pear tree and real swans swimming!

Seeing real examples of these unusual gifts from the popular song helps students build background knowledge.

This Christmas / December also comes with the following:

•Answer Keys

•EDITABLE Questions & Answers

• Lesson Plan Ideas & Other Teacher Directions

• Links embedded throughout the activity that makes it easy for students to navigate

I bet that when you use this for virtual learning or in your socially distanced classroom, your students will be humming or singing the song all day!

You can grab this activity by clicking HERE .

9–How to Decorate a Christmas Tree

You could combine this one with a Christmas craftivity on decorating Christmas trees in the classroom. Or you can put an interesting spin on it by having students write a tutorial on how NOT to decorate a Christmas tree!

10–“Shop The Room” for Christmas

Use Target or Wal-Mart Toy Ads to cut out pictures with prices of all types of toys. I laminate mine and put them all over the classroom.

I give students a budget and a specific shopping list of toys. Students must use math skills to “shop the room” and check out. Their “receipt” for checking out is the exit ticket math problem I give them to close the activity.

If setting up a full store is too much prep, you will enjoy these Holiday Shopping Spree Christmas math pages.

It takes the same concept as “shop the room,” but puts in it a NO-PREP, festive worksheet that keeps kids busy with learning during the holidays.

You get the convenience + learning math, while also enjoying the jolly December days! Win. Win!!

11–Light Up Our Class with Kindness Writing Activity

Students write acts of kindness on Christmas ornaments and we decorate our class with them all throughout the month of December.

This activity makes a fantastic December bulletin board! So we decorate an entire bulletin board with these ornaments.

Everyone really enjoys seeing their names on the ornaments with reminders of kind acts witnessed in our class. It also encourages students to show kindness and to be on the lookout for it.

12–Holiday Book Nominations

A great way to keep students engaged with reading during the holidays is to have them write nominations of holiday-themed books.  

I have students write on sticky notes why they recommend a book from our classroom library. We keep those stickies on the books for others to see. This keeps the kids motivated to read because they are following the recommendations of their peers.

December Christmas Read-Alouds

If your kiddos have a hard time recommending winter reads, you can get the ball rolling with these holiday read-alouds:

13–Service Learning During the Holidays

Another wonderful way to keep students engaged during the holidays is through service learning projects and field trips. One year my teaching team took our 4th graders to our local nursing home to read Thanksgiving and Christmas books to the residents.

Another year we made Christmas cards and stockings filled with inexpensive items for a local children’s shelter.

My favorite one is the year our 4th graders went to help organize canned goods at our local food bank.

Service-learning is a wonderful way to get kids involved with learning and giving during this time of the year.

14–Design Your Own “Ugly” Christmas Sweater

This one is a hit with the kids every year! I give them butcher paper and put them in teams. They design ugly sweaters and write descriptions of their creations. This writing gives great practice with adjectives.

Then I roll out the red carpet (which is just red butcher paper) and have the students walk the runway modeling their ugly sweaters! We always have so much fun!

15–Research Popular Christmas Symbols & Traditions

Where does the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings come from? Why is the candy cane red and white? These are great essential questions to research to keep students engaged during the holidays.

I adore read-alouds for upper elementary students , so I combine this research with books that cover the same topic.

More Classroom Ideas To Keep Students Engaged During the Holidays

Just as promised, I have a total of 25 ideas for keeping your students excited about learning during the holidays.

All the ideas listed above plus ideas 16-25 are included with the FREE holiday lesson planning guide pages which you can download HERE for free!

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What holiday activities do you use or have you heard about in the classroom? I would love to hear about them in the comments below!

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I have created a travel the world sort of activity. Christmas Around the World. This idea was found and I did purchase some simple books to aid in our discovery of different Christmas traditions. I created a passport and a briefcase as well as made stamps and airline tickets that they got each morning as they “boarded a plant” entered class. I teach special needs children so this activity was a lot of fun for them.

Shay, This sounds like an amazing activity! Thanks for sharing.

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We think the school Christmas holidays should be a time for reflection, relaxation and ridiculously fun activities — for teachers and children alike! With this in mind, we’ve created an alternative list of homework activities for teachers to set their class. It’s the perfect balance of super-fun activities, memory-making tasks and educational skills. Below you'll find a printable sheet with 15 festive, free, fun activities to send home with your class to help them channel that festive excitement into some meaningful and enjoyable missions.

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Here are 16 fun, free festive homework ideas for the Christmas holidays:

• Write a letter to Santa’s elves, it’s usually Santa that gets all the post!
• Can you design a Christmas card and send it to your favourite person?
• Make a festive decoration for around the house or to hang on the tree.
• Create a homemade gift and give it to a friend or family member.
• Make a list of things you really want to learn or achieve in the New Year. Remember to write a note to yourself and pack it away with the decorations for you to be reminded of next year.
• Have a dance party in the living room to your favourite festive songs.
• Can you find out about Christmas in another country? How does it differ from Christmas in yours?
• Can you make a Christmas tree out of something different? Lego, plasticine, the choice is yours!
• Can you write your own Christmas song or rap, and perform it to your family?
• Have a meal with your family and talk about your favourite memories of this year and the best things that happened to you.
• If you’re lucky enough to receive Christmas presents, write thank you notes and send them. Can you include something you loved about the gift?
• Birds can get very hungry at this time of year. Can you make a festive bird feeder out of a milk carton, box or bottle and hang it outside?
• Can you make a snow globe out of an empty container? What will you put inside?
• Have a festive movie night, get cosy and tune into a Christmas classic.
• Can you help to bake some Christmas cookies? Or a Christmas cake?

And of course, the most essential thing to do is… Have lots of festive FUN!

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Simple Holiday Activities for the Classroom: Project Based Learning and Party Ideas

I’m back with another AMAZING holiday party theme this week. This Christmas Tree Farm classroom party theme is full of simple holiday activities to use with your students. It has everything you need for an educational and exciting week before Christmas. 

It all starts with my Christmas Tree Farm Activities for Math, Reading, and Writing . Honestly, if you do nothing but pick your favorite activities from this resource– there are 40 incredible activities inside –your students will have so much fun.

But if you want to make things even more festive, I’ve included a few ideas at the end of this post to help you plan a simple and sweet classroom party.

The Resource:

Let’s take a look at this week-long resource. Christmas Activities for Math, Reading, and Writing is a full week of festive, interdisciplinary, hands-on activities, including STEM, project based learning, critical thinking, creativity, and so much more. Your students are sure to think that Christmas has come early. 

This one-of-a-kind holiday activity includes five days of low-prep activities designed for students in grades 2-5 . 

This fun holiday activity will transport your class to a Christmas Tree Farm reminiscent of a Hallmark movie. But this activity isn’t all tinsel and lights. These activities are packed with real-world learning opportunities in math, reading, writing, science, social studies, creativity, communication skills, and more. Your students will stay busy learning right up until Christmas break. 

Of course, I know that this time of year is crazy. So I’ve designed these activities to be EASY to use. All you have to do is print, copy and use. You can celebrate Christmas without messy glitter or crumbly gingerbread houses. And you won’t have to rush home each night to find supplies for the next day’s activities. Instead, you can bake, shop, wrap, and tackle all those last-minute holiday tasks on your to-do list. (Sorry, I can’t help with that!)

What’s Inside:

This holiday resource includes more than 75 pages of Christmas Tree-Farm-themed activities. All in all, there are forty different interdisciplinary activities that cover all the subject areas: math, reading, writing, science, communication, critical thinking, and creativity.

There’s also a complete STEM project and a parent letter requesting donations to help complete the project. The supply list is simple, and it contains items you probably already have in your classroom.

Most importantly, the clear teacher directions, answer key, and detailed examples make implementing these holiday activities easy. 

We’ve broken all of the holiday activities down by day:

Growing Christmas Trees – Day 1

• Christmas Tree Life Cycle (2 versions) – reading comprehension 
• Christmas Tree Life Cycle (2 versions) – informational writing 
• Types of Christmas Trees – reading comprehension
• Choosing the Perfect Tree – opinion writing
• Comparing Christmas Trees – compare and contrast
• Mapping the Tree Farm (2 versions) – map making and area (difficult version only)
• Pricing the Christmas Trees – problem solving, addition, and subtraction
• Last Year’s Tree Sales (2 versions) – addition, subtraction, problem solving, and fractions (difficult version only)

Christmas Tree Farm Attractions – Day 2

• Ice Skating Rink Rules – informational writing
• Ugly Christmas Tree Sweater – creative design
• Wreath decorating – geometry 
• Photo Booth Backdrop – creativity
• Snack Stand Orders (2 versions) – addition & subtraction and problem solving
• Making Hot Cocoa (2 versions) – writing (procedural and sequencing)
• Frost Farm Tree (2 versions) – math (procedural and sequencing) 
• Meet the Reindeer – reading comprehension
• Build a Reindeer Barn: STEM Project

Advertising and Farm Operations – Day 3

• The Tree Farm Hours – clocks and elapsed time
• Farm Logo and Slogan – creative design and writing
• Tree Farm Jobs – reading (use with job application)
• Job Application – informational/persuasive writing
• Tree Farm Brochure (2 versions) – informational writing and creative design
• Social Media Post – creativity and informational/persuasive writing
• Filming a Commercial – persuasive writing, public speaking, creativity, and editing
• Advertising Budget (2 versions) – reading comprehension and math skills (addition and subtraction in the easy version and multiplication in the difficult version)

Opening Day at the Tree Farm – Day 4

• Tree Farm Ticket Prices (2 versions) – addition and subtraction
• Tree Farm Schedule – elapsed time, clocks, and problem solving
• Holiday Music Playlist – creativity, opinion writing, and making a list
• Selling a Christmas Tree – persuasive writing
• Tree Delivery Route and map (2 versions) – critical thinking and math skills
• Snack Stand Brownie Recipe (2 versions) – reading a recipe, following directions, addition (easy version), and multiplying & fractions (difficult version) 
• Photo Booth Picture – creativity and writing
• Reindeer Treats (2 versions) – repeated addition and decimals & multiplication (difficult version)

Opening Day Profits and Reflections – Day 5

• Thank You Letter – writing a letter and creativity
• Thank You Postcard – writing a letter and creativity
• Read the Reviews – reading comprehension
• Reflection on Reviews – text-dependent analysis
• Tree Sales Graph – interpreting data, addition, and subtraction
• Gift Shop Graph (2 versions) – graphing
• Revenue & Expenses (2 versions) – vocabulary, addition, and subtraction
• Employee Celebration Party – brainstorming and creativity
• Project Reflection – self-reflection and drawing conclusions

How to Use It in the Classroom:

This Christmas Tree Farm resource is a week-long activity designed to be used over 5 days. The activities are divided into five different themes, and there is one theme for each day of the week. Additionally, the daily lessons have a variety of reading, writing, math, and STEM holiday-themed activities.

How long this activity takes is up to you. You can pick and choose from the different activities. You could do just one per day, and spend an hour or so on this activity. Or, you might choose to devote the entire week to running a Christmas Tree Farm. 

The number of activities you choose to do and your students’ abilities will determine how much time they take.

Most of the activities are designed to be stand-alone activities. So if you don’t have time to complete them all, pick and choose your favorites or those you feel are most appropriate for your students. Or you can allow students to choose which activities they’d like to complete. 

Students can work independently, with a partner, or in small groups. You can even change the format throughout the day. This will help keep kids engaged. 

If you are still teaching a full week of lessons, try incorporating some of the writing activities or creative activities, like designing the sweater or photo booth as morning work. 

I love to create centers for each of the different holiday activities. This keeps all of the activities manageable. If you have parent volunteers, you can set one up at each center.

Some of these activities, like the writing commercials project, can easily be extended. Let students film their commercials and show them on the whiteboard, send them home via email to share with families, or share with another class.

Of course, you’ll want to make time to share each day. Kids will be working hard on these activities, and they will love the opportunity to share their ideas and see what their classmates are doing.

Differentiation:

Differentiation is simple with this Christmas Tree Farm resource. Many activities have been differentiated for different grade levels, and even include two different versions so you can pick the one most appropriate for your students.

Because there are so many activities, we’ve made it easy to keep track of which version is which. Easier versions are marked with a present symbol located next to the day at the top of the page. More difficult versions are marked with a holly leaf symbol. Select the appropriate version based on the age and ability of your students.

You can select one version for the entire class or choose different versions for individual students.

Remember, you don’t have to do all of the holiday activities. If one looks a little too easy or a little too hard for your students, skip it. Just choose the ones you like best!

This resource has more than enough holiday activities to keep your kids occupied all week long. Although all the activities are part of the overall Christmas Tree Farm theme, each activity is a stand-alone activity. You do not have to complete every activity in this packet. 

Your students will love these holiday activities!

You and your students will love this fun, unique theme. The opportunity to run their own Christmas Tree farm will engage kids from day one, and they will be eager to tackle new activities each day. Plus, these rigorous standards-based activities ensure that kids keep learning during the busy holiday season. And there are no references to Santa or elves in this resource. 

It really is the ONLY resource you need for an easy, festive, fun-filled week. 

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Holiday Activities for Math, Reading, Writing & STEM

Throw a christmas tree farm classroom party.

If you want to up the fun factor, try some of these holiday activities for a Christmas Tree Farm Classroom party. We’ve picked things that are simple to plan and prep. Below you’ll find ideas for treats, crafts, activities, and books.

Christmas Tree Farm Treats

Special treats can be a fun way to connect to the learning students are doing in the classroom. If you want to add something tasty to your classroom party, here are some ideas that go along with the Christmas Tree Farm theme.

Rice Krispie Treats

How cute are these? First, mix up a batch of Rice Krispie treats and add some green food coloring. Then, cut them into triangles shapes and stick a pretzel piece in for the trunk. Finally, add some candies or sprinkles for decorations. Grab the recipe here . 

Open-faced Christmas Tree Sandwiches

Here’s an option for a savory treat. Use a cookie cutter to cut a Christmas tree shape of bread. Spread with cream cheese. You can color it green for fun. Decorate with diced veggies such as carrots, red and yellow peppers, cucumbers, and olives.

Christmas Tree Cake Pops

If you have some extra time or a room parent who loves to bake, these Christmas Tree Cake Pops would be a sweet addition to your Christmas Tree Farm party. 

This mold sure would make it easy. Just use your favorite cake mix, add some green frosting, and decorate.

Or follow this recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 (16.25-ounce) box of your favorite cake mix + ingredients 
• 1-2  (16-ounce) containers of ready-made vanilla frosting
• 1 (34-ounce) bag of white chocolate chips
• green food coloring
• 50 lollipop sticks
• mini chocolate coated candies or sprinkles
• mini edible star candies

Directions:

• Grease and flour a 9×13 pan and preheat the oven.
• Use a hand mixer to mix the cake mix with the ingredients on the box. Beat for two minutes.
• Spread into a prepared 9×13 pan and bake according to the directions on the box. The cake is finished when the edges start to pull away from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let cool completely. 
• Once the cake is cooled, crumble it into small pieces in a large mixing bowl.
• Add half of the frosting and stir until thoroughly combined. The mixture should be moist enough to roll into 1-inch balls. You may need more frosting for this, but don’t add too much or the balls will not stay together. 
• Shape balls into cones and place them on a wax paper-covered baking sheet. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for several hours in the refrigerator, or freeze for 15 minutes. You want them to be firm but not frozen.
• Place white chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and heat for thirty seconds. Remove from the microwave and stir. Continue heating and stirring in 30-second increments until melted. Let cool slightly. 
• Add a few drops of green food coloring and mix well.
• Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted chocolate and insert it about halfway into a cake ball. Holding the stick, dip the entire tree in green chocolate, twisting the stick as you come up. While still wet, you can use a toothpick to create the branches. 
• Gently press mini candies around the sides or sprinkle with sprinkles and a star on top. Be sure to do this while the chocolate is still wet
• Carefully insert a lollipop stick in a Styrofoam block and let it harden. 
• Store in the refrigerator.

Strawberry Christmas Trees 

These look so cute! I love these chocolate-covered strawberry Christmas trees . To make these festive chocolate-covered strawberries, add some green food coloring to white melting chocolate. Dip the strawberries into the chocolate. Then, top with chocolate sandwich cookies and decorate with some sprinkles. Find all the details at Lovely Little Kitchen .

Fruit and Cheese Christmas Platter

Another yummy holiday treat! This fruit and cheese platter would make a super easy snack with no extra sugar. Arrange a variety of grapes and cheese cubes in a Christmas tree shape. Serve with crackers on the side.

Christmas Tree Cupcakes

These easy Christmas Tree toppers make such cute cupcakes. Just make a batch of cupcakes, frost them with store-bought frosting, and add the candy toppers from Just a Taste .

Christmas Tree Farms often offer hot cocoa to warm up their customers. So a Hot Cocoa bar would be a fun treat. 

I love to do hot cocoa in the crockpot. Add 8 Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate packets and 64 oz. of milk to your crockpot. (You may need to double or triple the recipe to serve your entire class, but most students won’t drink a full cup.) Whisk together until smooth and cook on high for two hours.

Set up a fun toppings bar with Reddi Whip, mini chocolate chips, sprinkles, candy canes, and marshmallows.

Christmas Tree Farm Crafts

There are many opportunities for creativity included in this resource, so you do not need to add any additional crafts. But if you want to do something extra, here are some simple holiday crafts that embrace the Christmas Tree Farm theme.

Paper Plate Christmas Tree

These three-dimensional paper plate Christmas trees are so cute and easy. All you need are paper plates, glue, green paint, and pom poms. Feel free to mix up the decorations if you want to. Get all the details at Creative Family Fun .

Hot Cocoa Directed Drawing

Kids love these directed drawings! All you need is paper and a pencil. Follow along with the step-by-step instructions in this video . Let students color with colored pencils or markers when they finish. 

PRO TIP: For a long-lasting keepsake and gift idea, have students draw on a canvas board.

Paper Plate Snow Globe

I love these adorable paper plate snow globes from Frugal Mom Eh . You can make it even easier by buying large white plates and smaller blue plates to put on the inside. 

Let kids choose any holiday item from the Christmas Tree Farm to put “inside.”

Make Paper Chains

Christmas trees are often decorated with garlands. So have kids make their own paper chain garlands. Making paper chains is a great way to practice fine motor skills. You can also challenge students to make a pattern or to make sure they have a certain number of links. The only materials you need are construction paper (in a variety of colors), tape or glue, and scissors.

Christmas Tree Farm Activities

Again, you don’t need ANY more activities. The Christmas Tree Farm Activities for Math, Reading, and Writing resource includes 40 different interdisciplinary activities that are fun, festive, and engaging. However, if you’re looking for more ways to have some holiday fun with your class, check out these ideas.

Christmas Tree Farm Video

You can watch this National Geographic Kids video to give kids a little background on Christmas tree farms.

And if you want to get kids up and moving, try one of these activities:

Ornament Scavenger Hunt

Hide different Christmas tree ornaments around the classroom. Make a list of what ornaments you have hidden, i.e., one red ball, two candy canes, one bell, one blue ball, two white snowflakes, etc.

Divide the class into teams and have them hunt for the items on their list. The first team to find them all wins.

Living Christmas Tree 

This is a fun game that kids love. Expect lots of laughter!

• Green crepe paper
• Ornaments (cut out of colored paper)
• A headband with a star attached to it

Divide your class into two teams and give each group a set of materials. The teams will then choose one member to be their Christmas tree. Play a Christmas song, such as “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” or “Oh Christmas Tree”. 

The students have until the end of the song to wrap their teammates in the crepe paper and use the remaining items to decorate their living tree. 

Christmas Tree Relay Race 

This is another fun racing game. Divide your class into two teams and have them line up behind the starting line.

Give each team a large green t-shirt (that they can put on over their clothes), a long strand of garland, and a Christmas headband. 

The first players on each team must dress up as a Christmas tree and race from the starting line to the turn-around line and then back again to the start. When they return, they remove the Christmas tree costume and pass it to the next player, who puts it on and runs the same course. 

The race continues until one team’s players have all completed the course while dressed as a Christmas tree. The first team to finish wins.

Dance video

This video features Christmas songs with easy choreography so kids can dance along.

Christmas Tree Farm Books

Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree by Lori Nichols. Maple and Willow love trees—and now they are getting their first real Christmas tree. It is going to be the best Christmas ever! 

The Christmas Tree Wish by Karen Inglis. As the snow starts to fall on Christmas Eve morning, little Bruce Spruce dreams about finding a home for Christmas Day. But when things don’t quite go according to plan, he discovers all is not lost as his fir tree friends — Penelope Pine, Cedrick Cypress, and Douglas Fir — are there to help. 

Christmas Farm by Mary Lyn Ray. When Wilma decides her garden needs a new beginning, she gathers string, scissors, shovels, sixty-two dozen balsam seedlings, and Parker, her five-year-old neighbor. Year after year, Wilma and Parker nurture their trees, keeping careful count of how many they plant, how many perish, and how many grow to become fine, full Christmas trees.

The Ultimate Holiday Guide for Grades 2-5

Did you just love the ideas in this post? Well, I’ve got great news. I’ve put together a FREE Ultimate Holiday Guide for Grades 2-5 that is just chock full of amazing ideas just like this. 

This 142-page guide is your comprehensive guide to the holidays in the classroom. My team and I have scoured the Internet to find the best holiday treats, crafts, activities, games, books, and more so you don’t have to.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Helpful holiday tips to make planning and celebrating easy
• Easy holiday resources that will keep kids learning
• 6 classroom party themes with ideas for treats, crafts, and activities
• Family & student gift ideas
• Simple classroom decor ideas
• Our favorite holiday books and movies
• Reading, writing, and math activities
• Student printables, a family holiday survey, holiday & thank you cards, and gift tags
• And so much more!

And the best part is it’s FREE! 

This Guide is our small way of saying thank you for everything you do for your students all year long. It’s filled with images, links, recipes, and more for the easiest, most fun holiday season ever! Download yours today!

I hope that gives you some simple ways to bring a little extra holiday magic to the classroom. 

Looking for other holiday themes? Check out the Snowman Classroom Party Theme or the Reindeer Classroom Party Theme . Or just DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE – it’s got everything you need!

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Summer holiday homework ideas that encourage creativity and foster a thirst for knowledge

Experiments, cross-curricular activities, microlearning, hands-on learning, deepening knowledge - the perspectives from which we can approach learning during the summer holidays are countless. The summer months mean free time, travelling, fun and days without alarm clocks for children. But because the holidays offer youngsters the luxury of time, they can invest some of it in something very valuable: self-development. And this can also be done through the intensely debated summer holiday homework. 

Summer holiday homework - beneficial or a waste of time?

• How summer holiday assignments build useful skills

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Microlearning and collaborative learning

When it comes to holiday homework, teachers, parents and students divide into two antagonistic camps: some argue that homework keeps children learning at a beneficial pace, reducing the loss of subject matter that is typical of holiday periods, and helps them consolidate the information they have accumulated during the school year. The other camp believes that youngsters should take a total break from school activities and enjoy a well-deserved holiday.

How summer holiday assignments foster collaboration, planning and leadership skills

  Read also:   How to prevent summer learning loss.   Useful activites and tools 

The summer holidays can be a good opportunity to tackle the topics covered during school in a practical and non-disciplinary way. Children can practice working with numbers by calculating the restaurant bill or how many seashells fit on the sole of a beach slipper or what day the half-term holiday falls on, for example.  They can practise their reading skills by trying to look at the menu themselves and ordering, or by reading explanations of the different sights they visit. They can do the same in a foreign language if they go on holiday abroad. To get them to learn more about animals, pupils can be encouraged to design a board game based on animal habitats and characteristics.

Books inspire children and make their holidays more enjoyable. When teachers approach reading creatively and with a holiday spirit, students are captivated.  A list of questions about the action in the book will pique their curiosity. A first chapter read togethe in class can encourage them to read further. The prospect of a whole-class play will persuade them to discover the story.

Using technology to check off summer holiday assignments 

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10 Tips for Teachers: Creative Summer Holiday Homework

Imaginative activities and projects to pack your students' summer holidays with creativity.

13 July 2022

Bonus: Homework for teachers. Take some time over the summer to look after your own wellbeing (although maybe wait until just before the new term starts!) with these Dreamachine Teacher Wellbeing CPD videos and creative activities .

1. Dreamachine Resources At Home Pack

Print off the entire pack or just one or two from this collection of activities from the Dreamachine Schools resources, specially picked out for families at home. They include science, global citizenship and wellbeing activities suitable for all ages, but will need adults to support the delivery as they are written in a lesson plan style. The activities include an interactive science survey into the senses: Life’s Big Questions – with videos to watch presented by Newsround’s Martin Dougan and fun illusions to try out.

2. British Science Week Activity Packs

For child-facing activities that are print off and go try this year’s British Science Week activity packs , which include a Dreamachine optical illusion challenge.

3. Summer Reading Challenge 2022

This year’s summer reading challenge is online and even if your school didn’t sign—up, children can still register to join in online and get books form the library: www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

You could print out this resource from StoryTrails and Unboxed Learning , with lots of ideas for storytelling.

4. The Poetry Society and Stemettes About Us Competition

About Us is all about exploring the many ways life across the universe is connected. Young people aged 4-18 can enter their poems and/ or Scratch projects on the theme of ‘connectivity and the universe‘, to win books and tech goodies, talent development opportunities, and free workshops for their school. All entrants will receive an e-certificate for participating and the competition closes on 31 August 2022. www.aboutus.earth/about-the-competition

5. Teaching for Creativity Taster Cards

Our Teaching for Creativity Taster Card activities are short and simple so could easily be facilitated by a parent or carer!

6. Keep an alternative journal

Document your summer break in a diary, but try to do it without writing a word! Create a scrapbook (or box!) of your summer, to remind you of what you did and how you felt. Try to include something for every week, but you can include as many entries as you like. How many different types of entries can you do? Some ideas are:

• Draw or paint a picture of what you did
• Draw the weather that day
• Close your eyes and draw how you feel
• Take a photo
• Collect a memento e.g. a ticket, a receipt, a food packet, newspaper, a leaf, a stone
• Draw a list of the music you listened to / books you read / games you played
• Make a collage of something you are looking forward to
• Make a picture of the tastiest food you ate – try using something unusual in a collage like pasta, lentils or cut up food packaging
• Listen to the noises outside and draw what you think you can hear

7. Design a new invention

Invent something to solve the problem of ____________.

Draw your invention and label it or make a model of it and a short video explaining how it will work. Think about: How does it work? What size will it be if you made it for real? What material is it made of? Where does it get power or energy from to work? What will you call it?

Check out Little Inventors for inspiration: www.littleinventors.org/ideas

Insert a problem to solve that you think your students will know about / connects to your learning this year or look on www.littleinventors.org/mini-challenges/

Some ideas are: plastic food packaging, ocean pollution, keeping cool in the heatwave, keeping house plants alive, how to stay dry when camping, learning times tables, getting to school on time.

8. Put on an art exhibition

Visit Tate Kids and choose some of the activities to create your own artwork: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make

Once you have enough pieces, stage an art exhibition in your home or garden and invite families and friends. Think about how you want them to feel when they are in the exhibition. Do you want them to feel excited/calm/intrigued or think about issues you care about? How can you display your work to try and achieve this? Take photos and collect some quotes of how they found the experience!

9. Learn some origami

Learn to make something out of origami, the art of paper folding. Maths on Toast have some how-to-videos: www.mathsontoast.org.uk/activity-category/videos/

All you need is some squares of paper – even newspaper will do (an easy way to make a square of paper is to fold one corner over to the bottom edge and then cut along ).

10. Write a cultural review

Write a review of a film/book/computer game/album/podcast /play/day out/experience – anything cultural that interests you! How did it make you feel? What were the best bits? What could improve? What surprised you?

You could provide them with a quick list of family days out (preferably free and local) to spark ideas. If your students are London based, here is a list of some free goings on in the capital to get you started:

Greenwich + Docklands - International Festival 2022 (FREE) 26 August – 11 September / Festival - free theatre, art, dance and circus.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 at Serpentine South Gallery (FREE) until 4 September / Art exhibition - a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials.

Covent Garden Cool Down – August Bank Holiday weekend / Experience - an annual ice cream festival on the streets of Covent Garden.

Take One Picture 2022 at the National Gallery (FREE) until 11 September / Art exhibition - primary schools from across the UK have responded creatively to 'The Finding of Moses' by Orazio Gentileschi.

Hew Locke: The Procession at Tate Britain (FREE) until January 2023 / Art exhibition – an installation of sculptures of people gathering and moving together to and ‘to celebrate, worship, protest, mourn, escape or even to better themselves’.

Kids Week – throughout August / Theatre - children 17 and under can go to theatre shows for free when accompanied by a full price paying adult.

Brent Biennial 2022: In The House Of My Love (FREE) until 11 September / Art exhibition - artists and community groups whose works explore the many meanings of homemaking.

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Learning with Fun: how to enjoy Holiday homeworks

Summer holidays mean relax : students can finally take a break and spend some time with their friends and families. Assigning them books to read, exercises to complete and problems to solve is an outdated homework model. Thanks to education technology , it is now easier than ever to stimulate students during holidays , motivating them to keep on training their mind. Here are some ideas.

But first, catch their attention and enthusiasm

Before using smart tech tools to engage students and help them to enjoy the summer learning activities, it is important to understand their needs and catch their attention , improving their motivation and enthusiasm. This has nothing to do with technology. It is a previous process that teachers should conduct face to face in the classroom.

Rule #1: appeal to students’ interests

Students enjoy their homework when it sounds funny, interesting, relevant to them: that’s why teachers should incorporate what their learners know and love in the summer assigments. How? First of all, taking a poll to find out what the majority of the class is into – sports, arts, nature? – and then creating a way to integrate the favourite subjects into the summer homework. Appealing to students’ interests is a great motivation driver!

Rule #2: keep it short

Holiday homework has the purpose to practice – or extend – those concepts learned at school during the school year. The duration of homework per day depends on the purpose . The National PTA (Parents Teacher Association, U.S.A.) recommends 10-20 minutes of homework in the 1st grade, arriving to 120 minutes of homework for a student in high school. But it is very tough to find a student who enjoys 2 hours of homework per day! In fact, consistent studies suggest that shorter – and more frequent – homework assignments are more effective , because learners are more likely to complete them.

Rule #3: stimulate sharing

During summertime, students prefer to stay outdoor, enjoying leisure with friends . Holiday homeworks can be a great opportunity to leverage on students’ cooperation, stimulating them with assignments including teamworks and activities to complete together with their classmates.

Rule #4: make it fun

Instead of force students to do traditional summaries regarding books they have read during summer, try to assign different kinds of homeworks, maybe including more subjects at the same time . An example: a written recap of summer holidays where students have to talk about the places they visited, merging this story with the music they listenend to, the histories they learnt and including even the photos they took during holidays. This could be a great way to test the students’ capability to deal with multitasks and activities of different nature. Regarding the many ways students can learn with fun, technology gives a lot of solutions suitable for students to do their holiday homework and keep on learning during summer in a more engaging and funny way. In Google Play Store , you can find a lot of apps that allow innovative and effective ways to learn at home during holidays :

• To students , the apps enable them to learn and to do homeworks in a more innovative and – above all – fun way;
• For teachers , it will be possible for them to assign homeworks and other activities with the possibility to better organize students’ tasks and to collect homework in an easier way when students will be back to school.

Holiday Homework — It’s Essential!

Amongst many teachers and parents, homework is a pretty hot conversational topic. While some believe that homework is an essential part of the school experience, others think it's a waste of our children’s time.

It’s not always easy to know what’s best for your child when it comes to schooling, but at William Clarence Education, we’re big supporters of homework – particularly when it comes to the holiday season. Here’s why.

The Summer Break Lasts A Long Time…

The long summer break is a great opportunity to spend quality time together as a family, but it can also lead to your child being intellectually understimulated. In an age of social media and Netflix, it’s easier than ever for our youngsters to spend their downtime frying their brains in front of screens. While every child should be allowed their own time to relax and recover from the stresses of school, it’s important not to let that behaviour dictate their entire summer break. Holiday homework provides the perfect opportunity to keep their "school brain" ticking over, and keeps them challenged and stimulated.

Preparing For University Life

As our children grow up, homework becomes a more important part of their schooling, allowing them to develop vital skills such as independent research. It also helps them to prepare for the demands of a university career. Many undergraduate degrees will involve a lot of directed learning, but others will rely upon the students going away and spending their own time reading, researching and writing. One way to begin learning these skills is through holiday homework assignments while your child is still in school.

Learning Outside the School Environment

When a child struggles at school, it often has less to do with their academic potential than with social distractions – and the manner in which they are taught. Put plainly, the school environment is not always conducive to learning. For this reason, homework over the holidays can be the perfect opportunity for your child to catch up on work they have missed or found too challenging. If your child is really struggling, you might even consider private tuition – educational consultancy services around the London and the UK, such as William Clarence Education, can supply excellent private tutors who will specialise in home schooling and exam preparation.

The key thing to remember when it comes to holiday homework is balance. Your child deserves a break during which they can enjoy themselves and have some freedom, so opt for a fair working schedule that is flexible around their needs.

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