UsingFrosty the Snowman Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
Using We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
Using Jingle Bells Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
Using Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
Using White Christmas Lyrics, students can follow along with the memorable song in order to know the which words to sing!
The Black Friday Shopping - Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives fifth grade students a fun holiday passage with five questions and an answer key to build main idea, vocabulary, and inference skills.
This Christmas Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you use in your classroom.
This Christmas Maze is a fun addition to your students' Christmas experience that can be used in many different situations.
Using Christmas Gift Tags, students can create personalized and colorful gift tags to label their presents to give at Christmas time.
Holiday cheer with real learning
Fifth graders are ready to look at Christmas with fresh eyes. They read about how the holiday is celebrated around the world, from Las Posadas in Mexico to St. Lucia Day in Sweden, and compare traditions. Classic carols become great reading material too: students read the lyrics for fluency, hunt for rhyme and figurative language, and talk about how a song paints a picture. The season also brings real-world math, like budgeting for gifts and comparing sale prices. The click comes when kids realize the songs they have sung for years are full of poetry tools they now know how to name.
December energy is high. These moves keep it joyful and keep learning on track.
Hand out a lyric sheet and have kids read it aloud like a poem first, then sing it. Repeated reading of a familiar text builds speed and expression. Then hunt for rhymes and repeated lines together.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWe Wish You A Merry Christmas LyricsWorksheetsOpen it →Use a reading passage about holiday shopping, then quiz from memory: What was the sale price? Why did the crowd form? Follow up with a quick budget challenge. Real-world money problems feel urgent in December.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withBlack Friday Shopping - Reading Comprehension WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Each student researches one country's holiday tradition and writes three facts on a paper tree cut out. Hang them together on a bulletin board. Building the display turns research into something everyone reads.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withTree Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →A little holiday fun goes a long way with fifth graders.
WorksheetsRead the Frosty lyrics and find personification. How is the snowman acting like a person?
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WorksheetsTeams list every rhyming pair in the Jingle Bells lyrics. Most pairs in two minutes wins.
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WorksheetsWrite a new verse to the Santa song about your own class, keeping the same rhythm.
Open Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Lyrics →Teacher favorites right now: Frosty the Snowman Lyrics, We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics and Jingle Bells Lyrics.
Focus on how different families and countries celebrate, and include other winter holidays like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Lunar New Year. Let students share their own traditions if they want to.
Reading carol lyrics for fluency and figurative language, holiday reading passages and research on traditions around the world all work well and keep real skills in play.
Use the holiday as the theme for real lessons: math with shopping budgets, poetry with carols, research on traditions. Short, engaging tasks beat long ones this time of year.
Traditions vary widely: Mexico celebrates Las Posadas, Sweden honors St. Lucia, and in Australia many families have Christmas at the beach since it is summer. Comparing them is a fun research project.
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