Holidays Around the World 2nd Grade BUNDLE

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this all-inclusive Christmas and Holidays Around the World 2nd Grade Bundle! This festive collection features a wide range of engaging and interactive activities to captivate your students while building math, reading, and comprehension skills. This bundle is the perfect way to celebrate the season and introduce students to unique customs and holiday traditions of Christmas and other winter celebrations around the world.

Included in the bundle:

1. Holidays Around the World Unit
Take your students on a magical adventure to learn about Christmas holidays and winter holidays around the world!

Students “travel” to 18 different countries through captivating teaching slides packed with information and real pictures to learn unique customs and holiday traditions around the world. Includes both PowerPoint and Google Slides.

You’ll get 18 detailed lesson plans, exit ticket quizzes and reading passages for each country, a passport, a suitcase folder, and 18 simple souvenir writing crafts. Thoughtfully designed to make planning, prep, and teaching a breeze with engaging activities, lessons, and resources to teach your students through the entire month of December.

Countries included:

• France
• England
• Italy
• Germany
• Mexico
• Israel
• Sweden
• Kwanzaa
• Russia
• Australia
• China (Chinese New Year)
• India (Diwali)
• Israel (Hanukkah)
• Indonesia (Eid al-Fitr)
• Saudi Arabia (Ramadan)
• Canada
• Kenya
• United States

2.  Holidays Around the World 2nd Grade Literacy Centers
Elevate your Christmas and Winter Holidays Around the World activities and make them cross-curricular by adding literacy centers!

The set includes 10 hands-on center activities to review and practice second grade literacy standards. The unique passport booklet with the center recording sheets inside. Students stamp their passports before they “depart” each center.

Literacy skills covered:

• Plural nouns
• Prefixes & suffixes
• Sentence punctuation
• Parts of speech
• Contractions
• Syllables
• Digraphs
• Vowel teams
• Friendly letters
• Irregular plural nouns
• Plurals with spelling changes

3. Holidays Around the World 2nd Grade Math Centers 

Include math in your holiday activities with these festive holiday math centers! Students practice 12 important 2nd-grade math concepts as they “travel” around the room. Set up each center with the included destination poster and have your students travel around the room to complete festive and skill-building math tasks!

These easy-prep centers include a fun math passport and boarding pass for students to record and stamp their math passports before they “depart” each center. Each of the 12 centers includes a destination poster, easy-to-read directions, task cards, game boards, student recording pages, and self-checking answer keys. 

Math skills covered:

• Number Patterns
• Comparing Numbers
• Matching Place Value Models to Numbers
• 2 & 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping
• Solving Word Problems
• Adding to Subtract
• Adding & Subtracting on a Number Line
• Using Expanded Form
• Determining Place Values
• Adding Tens & Hundreds

Why You’ll Love It:

• Stress-free planning with detailed plans done for you!
• Perfect for introducing and exploring holiday traditions from various cultures
• Easy-to-implement activities that save you time while making learning fun
• Promotes cross-curricular connections with reading, writing, math, and crafts
• Ideal for December activities, winter celebrations, or holiday-themed classroom activities

This holidays around the world 2nd grade bundle is the perfect way to celebrate the holidays in your classroom and keep students engaged and still learning up to your winter break!

Happy teaching!

Linda Kamp

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