Theme Pockets, December contains reproducibles galore—minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included. Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.
The three topics for December and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:
December Celebrations
- information miniposters
- art and writing projects for Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa
- make a luminaria
- make a menorah
- make a dreidel shape book
- accordion-fold book of Christmas stories
- 3-D Christmas tree
- seven candles of Kwanzaa book
- Kwanzaa placemat
Take It Home— behind this backpack cover are three pockets of fun projects for students to do during the winter vacation
- daily journal
- simple art projects
- a word search
- crossword puzzle
- dot-to-dot
- and more
When It's Winter:
- animals and people adapt to survive the cold
- Who's Hibernating Here?
- accordion-fold book
- Arctic Animals flip book
- monarch migration pull-through project
- gray whale migration book
- How We Stay Warm shape book
Lessons include:
- colorful art projects
- creative writing
- nonfiction writing
- science
- informational reading and writing
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
