Delight your students with these fun and unique Christmas activities for 1st grade! They’ll love the simple daily treats and matching activity pages that will keep them engaged and still learning as they count down the last 5 days before Christmas or winter break! This resource includes all materials in both Christmas Break and Winter Break versions.
Based on the wildly popular Summer Break Countdown, your class will love this roll down anchor chart and simple daily gifts with matching Christmas activity booklets that include math and ELA activities. Students use the treats to do the tasks!
Have students who don’t celebrate? I’ve included a non-holiday, winter themed version so all students can participate.
This resource now includes digital! I’ve added digital daily activities with moveable “treats” for students to do the tasks on devices!
All activity pages and gift tags are included in both “Christmas break” and “Winter break” terminology. Have students who don’t celebrate Christmas or holidays? I’ve also included a non-holiday, snowman themed version so all students can participate.
Have food allergies or a no-food policy at your school? I’ve included printable paper treats to use as an alternative to do the tasks.
Also available for these grade levels:
What’s inside:
- Roll down chart with no-prep printable chart parts
- Projectable daily chart options to use digitally
- 25 Activity pages with meaningful math and ELA skill practice in printable and digital versions
- Booklet covers with Winter Break and Christmas Break terminology
- Student gift tags using both “Christmas” and “Winter” break terminology
- Special section with alternative, snowman themed activity pages, chart parts, booklet cover, and gift tags for students who don’t celebrate Christmas or holidays.
- 10 digital activity slides with moveable “treats” – There are two digital activities for each day.
Here’s How It Works…
Each day during the last week before break, roll down the class chart to reveal the gift of the day. Surprise your students with a fun treat and matching activity pages. Students use the treats to add, subtract, measure and graph. They also use them to write, work with word families, practice sight words, and many other skills listed below. I’ve included 3-4 skill filled pages for each day. Use all or pick and choose the skills you want your students to review. At the end of the 5 days, use the included cover to staple all the pages into a booklet.
No time for fancy? No worries! Skip the chart and the gift tags and copy the activity pages. Pass out the daily treat on a paper towel so students can complete the tasks.
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Here’s what happened in my classroom…
T’was the 5 days before Christmas and all through the school
My sugar plums were dancing and testing the rules!
I knew that I needed to reign them all in,
But assessments weren’t done, so I thought with a grin,
I’ll surprise them with gifts each day of the week,
I’ll keep it a secret and won’t let them peek!
But not just a gift, I thought with a wink,
I’ll make tasks to go with them so they’ll have to think!
They’ll be reading and writing and having such fun,
That I surely will get my assessments all done!
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These Christmas activities for 1st grade include:
Literacy Skills
- Beginning, middle, end
- Beginning and ending sounds
- Short vowel word families
- Long vowel word families with silent e
- Rhyming words
- Identify and sort vowels and consonants
- Read and write sight words
- Read and write color words
- Story map-title, author, main character
- Syllable identification-1 or 2 syllables
- Position words- on, under, above
- Identifying a fiction or nonfiction text
- Short response writing prompts
Math Skills
- Shape identification
- Shape attributes-sides, corners
- Ways to make 9
- Fact families
- Skip counting by 5’s to 50
- Patterns
- Making 10
- Addition and Subtraction Using a Ten Frame
- Nonstandard measurement- adding lengths
- Place value- tens and ones
- Graphing-bar graph, tally chart
- One more/ one less
- Ten more/ten less
Please download the preview for details and pictures of everything included.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
Additional holiday resources and Christmas activities for 1st grade:
Comparing Favorite Versions of The Gingerbread Man
Holidays Around the World Math Centers
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School Class Book & Craft
Gingerbread Man Glyph & Graphing Project
Gingerbread House Lunch Sack Craft
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