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holidays teaching suppliesHolidays Through the Year (Grades 1 - 3)

Grade Level: 1st Grade - 3rd Grade
Price: $12.95
Product #: 2000404
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A fun, meaningful approach to holiday celebrations

  • choose fresh, creative activities and timesaving reproducibles
  • integrate holiday fun into your curriculum
  • add new pizzazz to your classroom celebrations

Looking for holiday activities that will also enhance your curriculum? This handy resource book is packed with creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles just right for first through third graders.

You'll find background information for each holiday, literature connections, arts-and-crafts ideas, student-created books, games, recipes, learning center ideas, and much more.

From New Year's Day to Kwanzaa, you'll discover that these 23 cross-curricular units will help you make learning about the holidays fun and meaningful!

Units in this book include:

  • New Year's Day
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  • Chinese New Year
  • Groundhog Day
  • Valentine's Day
  • Presidents' Day
  • St. Patrick's Day
  • Easter
  • Passover
  • Earth Day
  • May Day
  • Cinco de Mayo
  • Mother's Day and Father's Day
  • Independence Day
  • Grandparents Day
  • Johnny Appleseed's Birthday
  • Columbus Day
  • Halloween
  • Election Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • Hanukkah
  • Christmas
  • Kwanzaa

Pages: 96
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Holidays Seasons Themes Thematic Units Educational Resource BookHooray for Holidays & Seasonal Celebrations

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten
Price: $18.95
Product #: 2061236
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  • Build skills and celebrate favorite events.
  • Choose from over 220 songs, quick tips, and activities.
  • Includes bonus online materials.

Celebrating special days during the year has never been easier than with this amazingly organized resource. Complete with activities, teacher tools, songs, snacks, crafts, tips, and games, it allows your kids to have fun learning and celebrating all at the same time.

Each section includes:

  • quick tips
  • songs and rhymes
  • arts and crafts ideas
  • celebration activities
  • reproducibles and patterns

Cheer on your students with creative and easy activities for celebrating

  • A New School Year
  • Fall
  • Thanksgiving
  • December Holidays
  • Winter
  • Valentine's Day
  • St. Patrick's Day
  • Spring
  • Parent Days
  • Graduation
  • Summer

128 pages.
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Our entire collection of Seasons teaching materials

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teaching materials - seasons & holidaysPuppet & Flannelboard Stories for Seasons & Holidays

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $12.99
Product #: 1003700
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Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.

In this book children are introduced to many basic concepts through the exploration of a variety of literature selections. The flannelboard stories, rhymes, and finger plays are presented in four thematic units. Each unit is based on a season. The contents will assist the students with basic phonemic awareness and auditory discrimination and can be used to provide an introduction to phonics. The selected stories are favorites.

Simple, easy-to-make puppets and related activities accompany each presentation. Young learners are introduced to seasons and holidays by acting out different pieces of literature.

Pages: 96
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classroom materials - patternsBig & Easy Patterns: Holidays and Seasons

Grade Level: Preschool - 6th Grade
Price: $17.99
Product #: 1002602
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Lots of patterns are presented for each of the four seasons and their corresponding holidays, including St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day and more. The book also includes teacher-tested ideas for using the patterns.

There are several ways to use the patterns in this book. They are big and easy to cut out, so they can be used by students for easy-to-prepare art projects. They can also be used for classroom decorations, story prompts, word banks, puppets, paper dolls, big books, and shape books.

Pages: 224
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