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Lesson Plans - December

Bah Humbug

After listening to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch stole Christmas, students create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two main characters.

All I Want for Christmas

Students work in pairs to use real life interests to create a wish list from catalogues and sale ads based on a given budget. This lesson gives the students math practice in the areas of addition, subtraction, and estimation with money.

12 Days of Christmas

This is a fun and creative way to explore “The 12 Days of Christmas.” This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It’s also very cute to see the creative ways the students become “The 12 Days of Christmas.” Composition with instruments is also involved.

Wrapping Paper Patterns

This activity allows students to create art using the patterns found on Christmas wrapping paper.

Which Present is Bigger?

Students will use estimation and rulers to figure out which present is bigger.