Celebrate the Christmas Season with the 6Th Grade Treasure Trove

Holiday Internet Sites & Activities

Holidays of the World: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

http://www.maui.net/~mcculc/xmas.htm

Learn how these winter holidays are celebrated around the world.

Winter Festivals from Past and Present

http://www.maui.net/~mcculc/xmas.htm

Celebrations during the mid-winter season were common, even before Christmas

was celebrated on December 25. Read about the Festival of the Broken

Needles, Night of the Radishes, and La Befana.

Hanukkah

http://www.joi.org/celebrate/hanuk/

Learn about the traditions of this Jewish holiday. Click on Activities for

songs to commemorate this historic event.

Christmas Stories and Poems

http://www.night.net/christmas/poems12.html-ssi

This treasury includes The Gift of the Magi, 'Twas the Night Before

Christmas in English and Spanish, An Elf Named Freddie, and One Cool Yule.

Ramadan on the Net

http://www.holidays.net/ramadan

This colorful site tells how Islam began and how Muhammad received the Quran

(Koran). Read about the fast of Ramadan, the Night of Power, and the Five

Pillars of the Muslim Faith.

December Calendar Of Activities:

http://members.aol.com/ggallag958/default.html/deccalendar.html

Poems, story titles, art, critical thinking... they're all there, with one activity for each day of December. Use these creative ideas for journaling, sponge activities--or even

for a take-home calendar-book: add some pages to the calendar cover and students have their very own "book" to work in for the month.

Advent Paper Chain:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/advent_paper_chain.htm

With Christmas pattern backs and number strip templates,

these easy to make paper chain advent calendars are just

the ticket for Preschool up to grade three.

A Worldwide Christmas Calendar:

http://www.algonet.se/~bernadot/christmas/calendar.html

Bernadotte School has created a very special interactive advent calendar. Click on a present with the current date, and it opens to reveal a Christmas tradition, written by a student, from all parts of the world.

Tate's 2000 Advent Calendar:

http://www.advent-calendars.com/index.html

Tate the cat continues its adventures in the French village of Bric-a-Brac. Click on the calendar,

starting December 1st, for a new installation every day. You may want to use this online advent calendar to start a new Christmas tradition for your class.

The Night Before Christmas:

http://www.marskandiser.com/Night.html

Online, illustrated text of the Christmas classic by Clement Clarke Moore.

Peanut Packaging Ornaments:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/activity_7.htm

Find some creative uses for those otherwise annoying packaging peanuts. Buttons will also come in useful for the ideas on this page.

Christmas Song Wordsearch:

http://members.aol.com/ggallag958/wkdl/Christmas.html

Find your favorite carols in this wordsearch.

Print And Make A Christmas Tree:

http://www.maui.net/~mcculc/gif/xmascraft.jpg

Print copies of this tree, cut, and paste to make some cute 3 dimensional Christmas trees to decorate your classroom.

Print And Make A Christmas Village:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Christmas/chrvillage.htm

Print out the templates, then all that is needed is markers, scizzors, and glue to assemble this five

building Christmas village.

Christmas Playdough:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/activity_5.htm

What could be easier than red and green playdough and some Christmas cookie cutters? Find the playdough recipe here.

Christmas Coloring Pages & Seed Ornament Balls:

http://www.womansday.com/xp6/WomansDay/crafts.xml/holiday_coloring.xml

Print out 4 Christmas coloring pages, and also find instructions to make a woodsy Christmas ornament.

How To Make Christmas Stockings:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/activity_1.htm

Instructions are written specifically for an easy level project; you can make your own additions and decorations to make these stockings as elaborate as you wish.

More Christmas Coloring Pages:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/coloring.htm

Have a few minutes left before the bell rings? Print these pages out for your students to color and take home.

It's time for Santa to appear.

Teachers here is a great holiday web site to share with your students.

http://www.santashawaiianhome.com

A place were a kid or kid of heart can email a letter to Santa and get a reply within minutes.

What is Hanukkah?

http://www.harperchildrens.com/holiday/hanu.htm

This site tells the story of this Jewish holiday and describes some Hanukkah customs such as the Menorah and the dreidel.

Kwanza: An African-American Holiday

http://www.afroam.org/children/fun/kwanzaa/kwanzaa.html

Read about the rituals and traditions of Kwanzaa.

Merry Christmas (Worldwide Christmas Calendar)

http://www.algonet.se/~bernadot/christmas/calendar.html

In this collaborative project, students from around the globe tell about the celebration of Christmas and other winter holidays in their countries. Each day of this virtual advent calendar features a different tradition from a different country.

The Fast of Ramadan

http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/story.htm

Muslims spend the month of Ramadan fasting and praying. Find out the specific guidelines needed to observe this holiday as well as what behavior to avoid.

Winter Solstice

http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html#open

What does solstice mean? What rituals are associated with this special time of year? Winter solstice for 1999 will occur at 11:44 pm PST on December 21, early morning on December 22 for every other U.S. time zone.

Christmas Tree Lighting Festivals

http://www.festivals.com/~trees/

This site tells all about the tradition of decorating trees for winter festivals and holidays.

Internet hunt based on Christmas

The hunt will show kids some exciting educational web sites.

The hunt can be done entirely online; answer keys, answer sheets, and

hints/tips for teachers are available. The hunts are mirrored at these two sites:

http://www2.drury.edu/dswadley/cmashunt99.htm

http://www.fairgrove.k12.mo.us/swadley/cmashunt99.htm

Printable answer sheets ready to copy and distribute to your students with

blanks for the answers:

http://www.fairgrove.k12.mo.us/swadley/answersheet.htm

Keys,and Tips for teachers are at:

http://www.fairgrove.k12.mo.us/swadley/cmashunt99hints.htm

December internet scavenger hunt.

This month I have explored some sites related to events and traditions in December.

http://users.desupernet.net/ohora/ext/decholidays.html

New Holiday Center Launches December Holidays Resources Page!

Find articles, activities, crafts, clip art, and much more!

http://www.education-world.com/holidays/

Christmas around the world site.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/worldmas.html

Christmas Celebrations

http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/index.htm

Winter Web Site

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/xmas.html

Lots of Lovely Winter/Christmas Ideas, Music Units - GMAN - Penguins - Mittens - Polar Express and -Around The World and much more- Songs/Poems- Things To print -Great Links