Holidays Around the World 3rd Grade BUNDLE

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this all-inclusive Christmas and Holidays Around the World Bundle! Specially crafted for 3rd-grade students, this collection features a wide range of engaging and interactive activities that will 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 winter celebrations around the world.

Bundle Includes:

1. Holidays Around the World Unit
Take your students on a magical adventure to learn about 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

Please see the preview for more details and pictures of everything included.

2. Holidays Around the World 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 plus a fun passport booklet with the center recording sheets inside. Students stamp their passports before they “depart” each center.

Skills covered:

• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Syllables
• Capitalization
• Folktales
• Reading Comprehension
• Context Clues
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Determining Main Idea
• Final Stable Syllables
• Silent Letters

Destinations students “visit”:

• France
• Italy
• England
• Canada
• Sweden
• Israel
• China
• Germany
• Mexico
• Australia

These third grade literacy centers are ideal for independent practice, adding phonics reading practice and grammar to your holiday units, or (my favorite) a holidays around the world party!

Please see the preview for more details and pictures of everything included.

3. Holidays Around the World Math Centers

Include math in your holiday activities with these festive, skill-building holiday math centers! Students practice 12 important 2nd-grade math concepts as they “travel” around the room.

Set up each center with its destination poster and have your students travel around the room to complete engaging math tasks!

These easy-prep centers include a fun 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. 

Third Grade Math Skills covered:

• Place value
• Rounding
• Function tables (Input & output tables)
• 3-Digit addition and subtraction
• Equations with unknowns
• Array models
• Equal groups
• Multiplication & division
• Word problems
• Time to the quarter hour & nearest 5 minutes

Destination posters are included for:

• Canada
• Israel
• Italy
• Sweden
• Mexico
• China
• France
• England
• Germany
• Australia

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 3rd grade bundle is the perfect way to celebrate the holidays in the classroom and keep students engaged and still learning up to your winter break!

Happy teaching!

Linda Kamp

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