Theme Pockets, December, Grades 1-3 – Teacher Resource, E-book

Theme Pockets, December contains reproducibles galore—minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included.  Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

The three topics for December and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

December Celebrations

• information miniposters
• art and writing projects for Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa
• make a luminaria
• make a menorah
• make a  dreidel shape book
• accordion-fold book of Christmas stories
• 3-D Christmas tree
• seven candles of Kwanzaa book
• Kwanzaa placemat

Take It Home— behind this backpack cover are three pockets of fun projects for students to do during the winter vacation

• daily journal
• simple art projects
• a word search
• crossword puzzle
• dot-to-dot
• and more

When It's Winter:

• animals and people adapt to survive the cold
• Who's Hibernating Here?
• accordion-fold book
• Arctic Animals flip book
• monarch migration pull-through project
• gray whale migration book
• How We Stay Warm shape book

Lessons include:

• colorful art projects
• creative writing
• nonfiction writing
• science
• informational reading and writing