December is a very fun month to teach. Sure, it may be short and sweet because of our winter breaks… But there are so many activities to squeeze into that month. Below, you’ll find December activities that I think are perfect to use in the primary classroom this month.
Holidays and topics to cover this month:
- Christmas
- Holidays Around the World
- Hanukkah
- Kwanzaa
- Gingerbread
- and more!
Reading Activities for December
- First on my list is my Christmas Fiction Reading Passages. Are you wanting to find Christmas activities that help teach reading comprehension and writing skills? These 5 sets of fiction Christmas passages help students practice comprehension with fun and engaging stories.
- Looking for gingerbread man activities to practice reading skills? Include this Gingerbread Man paired passage set for the perfect reading activity around Christmas! Your students can practice their reading comprehension skills while celebrating Christmas themes!
- Teaching December themes, like Christmas Around the World and reindeer, while using fiction and nonfiction reading paired passages activities can keep students engaged throughout the month. This December reading paired passages set comes with 5 paired fiction and nonfiction sets, which totals 10 passages.
- Are you looking for a way to teach Christmas reading and writing while keeping students highly engaged? This Christmas reading flip book teaches all about the holiday while students practice their reading and writing skills.
December Writing Activities
- These December writing prompts are made for students to use in their journals for daily writing practice. They can practice their creative writing with different seasonal writing topics.
- Are you looking to make your narrative writing fun this winter? This writing writing prompts set is a fun interactive activity that involves winter prompts, real photographs, and graphic organizers. It includes a decorating the tree theme!
Standards Based Common Core December Activities
- Want to cover your Common Core standards while teaching December activities? Each Christmas activity pack is filled with ELA activities for students, such as reading, writing, language and grammar, and more. There are themed activities for each of the six Common Core Standards domains. Your students will practice their ELA standards while incorporating the Christmas theme as well. This will take some of the stress off of your plate by providing you with standards-based and Common Core-aligned seasonal activities!
Math and ELA Review for December
- Are you looking for math and literacy worksheets to use during December that cover Christmas and other holiday topics? These on-the-go worksheets are perfect for a busy teacher. In this packet, you’ll find 50+ worksheets for quick and easy review or teaching activities. These skills cover 1st and 2nd grade student skills.
- These Christmas coloring sheets are perfect to use during busy December. The color by sight word and number pages are perfect to use for quick time-filling activities, early finisher activities, or reward activities.
- Are you looking for enrichment activities for your early finishers to do around Christmas? These math, writing, reading, art craft worksheets are perfect for your students! There are 18 early finisher activities for your students to complete for enrichment and extra critical thinking skills.
- These December and Christmas themed phonics centers bring you 12 different Science of Reading activities to help students with their phonics and phonemic awareness. The 12 December centers range from letters to nonsense decoding to long and short vowels to decoding simple sentences.
Holidays Around the World Resources
- Want to teach about Christmas and Winter Holidays around the world, but you’re short on time? These reading comprehension passages are a quick way to teach your students about different ways winter holidays are celebrated while practicing their reading skills.
- Teach your students about Christmas and Holidays Around the World with this research unit and passport. You’ll find activities for Christmas and winter holidays celebrated in other countries plus Hanukkah, Diwali, and Kwanzaa. You will also find passports, mini books, research pages, and more plus the digital versions of all of these!
- Looking for a quick Christmas Around the World activity that is also educational? This reading flip book teaches all about holidays while students practice their nonfiction reading and writing skills.
Other Reading Flip Books
- Each reading flip book comes with a reading passage, a comprehension questions follow-up page, a sorting page with either true or false or fact and opinion, and a follow-up writing activity.
Want to try out Digital December Resources?
A few of the resources above also come with digital conversions. If you’re looking for which December resources that I have that have digital conversions, look no further. All resources below come with both PDF and digital options in Google Slides.
- Fiction Reading Comprehension
- December Paired Passages
- Writing Prompts for December
- Gingerbread Flip Book
- Christmas Around the World Unit
Want FREE Christmas Around the World Planning pages?
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Other Free December Activities
