Classroom

Classroom Links

• Does December Spell "Dilemma" in Your School? Emphasizes holiday education instead of celebration for a peaceful season. From Education World.
  
• PunkysChildCare.org Bulletin Board ideas for Christmas.
  
• Currier and Ives Winter Scenes An educational resource on the Christmas Holidays of Western art history. Includes artists Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives.
  
• Christmas Activities Activities and book recommendations from a kindergarten teacher.
  
• Christmas in the Classroom CEAI's teaching tips are designed to give public school teachers ideas on how to discuss religious aspects of Christmas with classes in legally appropriate ways.
  
• Christmas - A Classroom Activity Individual and group activities to use in the ESL/EFL classroom.
  
• Christmas Goodies for Teachers Links to Christmas lesson plans for all grades.
  
• Christmas Celebrations Links to Christmas activities, ideas, songs and plays for use in the K-8 classroom.
  
• The Christmas Tree Lesson plan for grades 4-5.
  
• Christmas Lesson Plans Teacher-made lesson plans for Christmas.
  
• Ho! Ho! Ho-liday Art Projects Even Santa Would Love Craft ideas for the December holidays emphasize multicultural learning, gift-giving, and peace. From Education World.
  
• Activity Idea Place: Christmas Fun Christmas art, games, songs, and other activities for the preschool or toddler classroom.
  
• ChildFun Christmas Provides craft projects, recipes, ornaments, and homemade gift ideas. All activities designed for young children to do with adult help.
  
• December in the Classroom Collection of holiday activities for December. Most geared toward 3-6 grades.
  
• The Twelve Days of Christmas and Pascals Triangle Using Pascal's triangle, find the number of items given each day in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas."
  
• CVC Christmas Page Christmas history, customs, and MIDI files. Includes stories, slide shows, and video clips produced by CVC students.
  
• Christmas in the Classroom Includes literature, activities, and recipes for the classroom at Christmas time.
  
• Victorian Christmas Language arts discussion on Christmas and Charles Dickens.
  
• Hummingbirds Christmas Poems, songs, action rhymes, craft activities, and gift ideas for the early childhood classroom.
  
• Christmas at The Holiday Zone Includes games, arts and crafts, songs, fingerplays, discussion topics, and language activities.
  
• Seasons Greetings Provides teachers of Modern Languages with useful links to resources for the holiday season. Also features an online scavenger hunt, a word search, and modern language activities.
  
• AITLC Guide to Christmas Dozens of categorized links help teachers prepare Christmas lesson plans. From ACCESS INDIANA Teaching and Learning Center.
  
• Brighten Up the Holidays with Cross-Curriculum Activities More than a dozen across-the-curriculum activities that teach skills while celebrating December holidays. From Education World.
  
• Interplanetary Christmas Forging a link between NASA research and the classroom, activities are based on Santa's plans to deliver Christmas gifts to space colonies around the solar system. From Science@NASA.