Your students will love learning about and practicing their positional words with this Christmas themed position words resource. Use the excitement of the Christmas season to help your students master positional words. Your kindergarten students will love the hands-on activities as they practice and demonstrate what each positional word means. Your students will also love the student reader and worksheets too!
December Positional Words Covers:
· on
· in
· front
· behind
· under
· between
· beside
· above
· beside
· over
Engage your PreK and Kindergarten students with the excitement of the Christmas holiday seasons with this 95-page December Literacy Center Unit Resource. Your students will love practicing key literacy skills with the fun of the season. Get everything your class needs to keep practicing those skills through the busy holiday season without a lot of prep or extra time.
December Literacy Centers and Worksheets Includes:
•Matching Letters - 16 Christmas word mats. Each mat has a Christmas word and picture with shape boxes below the picture where the students put the corresponding magnetic letters to make the word.
•Word Wall Cards are individual cards with Christmas words and pictures. These cards can be printed for the word wall and again to place in the writing center to use as a reference.
•Initial Sounds is an activity that asks the students to look at the labeled Christmas picture then place pictures with the same initial sounds on the picture.
•Initial Sounds Clip-It Cards asks the students to look at the Christmas picture cards and determine the initial sound. When the student decides the initial sound, they place a clothespin on one of the letters listed next to the picture.
•Student Sight Word Reader Pocket Chart Center Activity Worksheets
•My Gift to You… is an activity for the writing center. The students write their list of Christmas gifts they would like to give to someone or draw a picture of a gift. Pages are then collected and stapled to the cover (included) and made into a class book. A second page to write their own Christmas wish list is included.
•CvC Word Match - Students match a bell card (picture) with a sleigh card (word) at a literacy center or during small group instruction.
•Write the Room center cards and 2 levels of response sheets.
•3 Sequencing Mats and cards.
•Word Wall Cards are individual cards with Christmas words and pictures. These cards can be printed for the word wall and again to place in the writing center to use as a reference.
•Initial Sounds is an activity that asks the students to look at the labeled Christmas picture then place pictures with the same initial sounds on the picture.
•Initial Sounds Clip-It Cards asks the students to look at the Christmas picture cards and determine the initial sound. When the student decides the initial sound, they place a clothespin on one of the letters listed next to the picture.
•Student Sight Word Reader Pocket Chart Center Activity Worksheets
•My Gift to You… is an activity for the writing center. The students write their list of Christmas gifts they would like to give to someone or draw a picture of a gift. Pages are then collected and stapled to the cover (included) and made into a class book. A second page to write their own Christmas wish list is included.
•CvC Word Match - Students match a bell card (picture) with a sleigh card (word) at a literacy center or during small group instruction.
•Write the Room center cards and 2 levels of response sheets.
•3 Sequencing Mats and cards.
Your students will love learning about shapes and sorting shapes with this candy themed shape sorting activity. Using the excitement of the Christmas holiday season and Christmas candy, engage yours students in these hands-on activities and worksheets to review and master their knowledge of shapes. Your PreK and Kindergarten students will be working on shape recognition and important categorizing skills. This Christmas Candy Shape Sorting resource includes the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, crescent, heart, rhombus and oval. This hands-on shape sorting activity is perfect for morning tubs, math centers, small group instruction or intervention. Your pre-k and kindergarten students will also love the cut and paste shape working worksheets, the color by shape pictures and the bonus candy themed activities.
Engage your Pre-K and Kindergarten students during this Christmas holiday season with these interactive Christmas Rhyming Activities. Your students will love rhyming words with the Rhyming Matching Game, the Rhyming Word Hidden Pictures, and the other included worksheets. These Christmas rhyming activities are perfect for whole class learning, centers, independent work, small group teaching and intervention.
We know that different schools have different policies on holiday themed activities. This set includes some Christmas themed images (present, Santa's sack of gifts, candy cane, stocking, and Santa hat). Santa Claus is not pictured in this set. Additionally, the rhyming words are not Christmas themed words.
Christmas Rhyming Activities Includes:
- 38 rhyming word cards in color and black & white options
- Make and Draw a Rhyming Word Worksheet
- Find the Rhyming Picture Cut and Paste Activity
- CVC cut and paste spelling activity
- Roll, Rhyme and Color Rhyming Game / Worksheet
- 3 Hidden Picture Coloring Rhyming Worksheets
December can be a hectic month so let this NO PREP December Morning Work help you save time while helping your students master key language arts and math skills. This December Print and Go Morning work set is perfect for Kindergarten students. Just print the worksheets and your students will be busy learning and practicing important skills. These worksheets and practice pages can be used for more than morning work, they would also make great small group instruction practice, homework, intervention activities and more!
PreK teachers these worksheets are great for pre-k students too. You will likely work through the skills at a slower pace than kindergarten, however, they cover the key skills you will teach during the year. Use as PreK Morning Work, worksheets, whole class practice and more!
December Morning Work for PreK and Kindergarten includes:
• 5 pages with syllables, letter identification, vocabulary, math, and concept discrimination;
• 5 pages of identifying rhyming words;
• 5 pages of initial sound awareness;
• 5 pages of reading and writing number words six - ten; and
• 5 pages of making words (Christmas vocabulary)
Writing activities designed for Kindergarten or early writers. These writing prompts will have your kinder students writing every day with activities designed just for kindergarten! Make a monthly writing journal to watch your students' progress.
December, month 4, lets your students practice writing words to complete a phrase.
• Week 1 uses the sight words The, A, My
• Week 2 uses the words in, on
• Week 3 uses the word and
• There are only 3 weeks this month allowing for the holidays.
Writing in Kindergarten every day doesn't have to be time consuming for the teacher or the students. Use these weekly booklets as a quick write for your Kindergarten writing. Writing in Kindergarten is so important. “Emergent literacy research has shown us that children are not ruined by being allowed to write before they can read. Rather, they learn many important concepts and develop the confidence that they can write.” (Cunningham, 1995, p. 25)
We have created these Kindergarten Writing booklets to compliment Morning Message, Daily News, Shared/Guided Writing, Writer’s Workshop or any other writing experience you provide for your students in your classroom.
The Olivia Helps With Christmas book study is a perfect way to keep your Pre-K and Kindergarten students learning during the holiday season. This book study unit includes 5 days of close reading lesson plans to help your students take their reading skills to the next level. Each day includes before, during and after reading lesson plans that focuses on different key reading comprehension skills. This resource also includes all listed center activities and worksheets.
As she waits for Santa's arrival, Olivia, the pig, tries to help with family preparations on the day before Christmas, shopping, setting the table, decorating the tree. Olivia is getting impatient though as she and her brothers continue to be on Santa watch.
Your students will love this book companion and its activities!
There is an activity for every weekday. (Does not include weekends or holidays.)
FREE
Editable! If you have specific objectives this month that are not included you can edit each day’s item by highlighting the text you want to change and typing a new skill.
Make homework meaningful for your PK or Kindergarten students with this FREE December Parental Involvement Calendar.
Students and their families will have fun doing activities such as:
• Look for triangles in your surroundings
• Orally count how many days until Winter Break.
• See how many words you can use to describe Winter.
• Write a list of things that need to be done before the holidays.
• Use your five senses to describe your favorite holiday food.
There is an activity for every weekday. (Does not include weekends or holidays.)
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