Holidays Around the World Christmas Around the World – Preschool & Kindergarten

Description

Holidays Around the World Centers (aka Christmas Around the World Centers) are loaded with fun, hands-on holiday themed activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts! Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these centers as arrival/table time activities, center activities, small group instruction, and circle.

The following holidays are included in this unit: Ramadan, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Las Posadas, Saint Lucia, Lunar New Year, and Christmas (commercial Christmas with, not Christian).

There are two literacy centers and two math centers for each holiday. One center is a lower level (more for preschool & pre-k), and the other is a higher level (more for kindergarten).

What’s Included:

Digital Resources:

• Google Slide & PDF E-book
• 4 Seesaw Math Activities (counting up to 10, making numbers 1-10, ten frames, adding up to 5)
• 4 Seesaw Literacy Activities (beginning sound, beginning sound with word clue, CVC, sight words)

Each Holiday has:

• Book List
• 2 shape options Vocabulary Cards (real photographs, 4 per holiday) (square and rectangle word cards)
• Holiday Fact Posters (one-page poster with real photographs)
• Holiday Word Banks & Sorting Boards (clip art)
• Writing Paper (6 writing paper options for each holiday)
• Play Dough Cards (8 per holiday)
• STEM Cards (4 Brick Blocks per holiday and 5 Cubes per holiday)
• Art Activity with photograph example and printables (if needed)
• Sensory Bin idea for each holiday

Literacy Centers with worksheets (two literacy centers for each holiday)

• ABC Order – Christmas (two options: matching and fill in the blank)
• Handwriting Practice – Christmas (uppercase and lowercase letters)
• Read, Write, Build with Letter Cards – Hanukkah (letters or sight words)
• Rhyme Puzzles – Hanukkah
• Letter Hide & Seek – Kwanzaa (uppercase game and a lowercase game)
• Sight Word Color by Code – Kwanzaa
• Letter Tracing Cards – Diwali
• Initial Sound Word Cards – Diwali
• Letter Dot It – Saint Lucia (uppercase and lowercase options)
• Ending Sounds Cards – Saint Lucia
• Rhyme Match-Up – Las Posadas
• CVC Cards – Las Posadas
• Letter and Beginning Sound Match-Up – Lunar New Year
• Build a Word with Brick Blocks – Lunar New Year
• Name Mosaic – Ramadan
• Syllable Match-Up – Ramadan

Math Centers with worksheets (two math centers for each holiday)

• Roll & Count or Roll & Add – Christmas
• Addition Cards – Christmas
• More or Less – Hanukkah
• Missing Number – Hanukkah with number lines for extra support
• Ten Frame Mats – Kwanzaa (numbers 1-20)
• I Spy Graphs – Kwanzaa
• Pattern Block Symmetry Mats – Diwali (2 levels)
• Roll & Count, Roll & Add – Diwali
• Pattern Cards – Saint Lucia
• Subtraction Cards – Saint Lucia
• Number Match Up – Las Posadas (numbers 1-20)
• Flip & Find to 50 & 100 – Las Posadas
• 2D Shape Match – Lunar New Year
• Ten Frame Built It Mats – Lunar New Year (numbers 11-30)
• Pattern Block Number Mats – Ramadan (numbers 1-20)
• Crescent Moon Puzzles – Ramadan (numbers 1-20

Also Included:

• Unit at A Glace Visual
• Labels for Organization

This resource was created in collaboration with A Kinder World!