Holiday+Resources

The story "The Mitten Tree" typed up with MC questions. The story has a good message and I tried to create a variety of MC questions to go along with the passage. The first page has more short answer type questions. I called the first one an opinion question because I often have students respond in their notebook to opinion type questions and I want them to know they are valuable however they ask you to use the text in a different way. I am calling the other type of question detail questions because they are asking for "facts" from the story not your opinion. I feel it is important for students to start to make that distinction and know how to use the text appropriately for both kinds of questions. The second page is a "open-response" type question. I want my students to work on answering questions that require a slightly different style of writing that I have recognized they need practice on. - I typed up a short article about the difference between customs and traditions. I think it is important for students to have this vocabulary when learning about different holidays celebrated. I also will have students the following day sort examples that are relevant to the idea of traditions and irrelevant to further their understanding.

Coupon books for students to make as a gift for family members.

Scholastic is the best website ever!! TONS of resources about all kinds of winter holidays, set up very similarly to the Thanksgiving website on Scholastic.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/

I'm trying to incorporate relevant and irrelevant details into as many lessons as I can. Below is a quick sort where students must find as many relevant details related to Christmas as they can. The other details will be relevant to Hanukkah. They must be able to defend their reasoning. ~ Tracy



Also, here is a brief summary I took from the Scholastic website of each holiday: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas.