Celebrate Christmas Around the World


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Background information and activities from over 20 countries.




Families Around the World Gr. 4-6


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48 worksheets for book reports. Vocabulary Development, Identifying Important Information, Character Analysis, Summarizing & Sequencing Events, Reasoning & Critical Thinking, and Creativity & Design




Christmas Around the World


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Ethiopian fringed umbrellas; star-shaped Filipino parol lanterns;candlelit Swedish St. Lucia crowns-Mary Lankford bringstogether Christmas traditions from twelve different lands,like decorations on a splendid tree.




A World of Cookies for Santa


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This beautifully illustrated book explores the traditional treats that children across the globe leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve—includes recipes! A World of Cookies for Santa takes readers on a journey to discover holiday traditions and beloved Christmas cookies from cultures around the world. Head to the Philippines, where children leave out puto seko cookies and ginger tea for Santa; jet to Russia for a honey-spice cookie; then set out for Malawi for a sweet potato cookie! And the journey continues in your own home kitchen, as author M. E. Furman provides recipes for children to bake some of Santa’s cookies for themselves. Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award and the Moonbeam Book Award!







Christmas Around the World


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Looking for an engaging study this holdiay season or a way to keep Christmas in your homeschool without Christmas distracting you from your studies? Christmas Around the World - A 6 week Geography-based Unit Study - is just for you. This ultimate guide to Christmas is your one-stop curriculum for the holidays, containing all of the obvious and not-so-obvious best holiday traditions of people around the world. It is adaptable for K-6th and includes extra learning resources for all subject areas. Reproducible license granted for single family use.




A CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS Gr. 4-6


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Get your students involved in Christmas customs around the world. Countdown the days until Christmas with the German custom of an advent calendar. Celebrate the Netherland's St. Nicholas Day on December 6. December 13 is St. Lucia's Day in Sweden. Celebrate animals with a Scandinavian dinner hung on a tree.




Christmas Around the World Coloring Book


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Learn how Christmas is celebrated around the world by coloring 30 pictures of young carolers in Great Britain, Mexican children playing under a piñata, a Swedish girl wearing a traditional crown of candles, Greek children parading with drums and triangles, an Australian family picnicking on a beach, and more.




Reader's Theatre: Holidays Gr. 4-6


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The holidays celebrated in North America serve as a rich source of literature and oral tradition. Our unit contains ten lesson, each featuring a play about one of our holidays. Included in this resource are suggested teaching strategies, themes, answers, reader's theatre scripts, and follow-up activities including: Comprehension Questions, Fun With Words, Investigations, Creative Writing and Art Activities. This Theatre & Folktales lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of scripts, creative writing activities, crossword, word search and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.