Christmas Around The World Gr 4 6

48 worksheets for book reports. Vocabulary Development, Identifying Important Information, Character Analysis, Summarizing & Sequencing Events, Reasoning & Critical Thinking, and Creativity & Design

Get your students involved in Christmas customs around the world. Countdown the days until Christmas with the German custom of an advent calendar. Celebrate the Netherland's St. Nicholas Day on December 6. December 13 is St. Lucia's Day in Sweden. Celebrate animals with a Scandinavian dinner hung on a tree.

Background information and activities from over 20 countries.

The holidays celebrated in North America serve as a rich source of literature and oral tradition. Our unit contains ten lesson, each featuring a play about one of our holidays. Included in this resource are suggested teaching strategies, themes, answers, reader's theatre scripts, and follow-up activities including: Comprehension Questions, Fun With Words, Investigations, Creative Writing and Art Activities. This Theatre & Folktales lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of scripts, creative writing activities, crossword, word search and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Ethiopian fringed umbrellas; star-shaped Filipino parol lanterns;candlelit Swedish St. Lucia crowns-Mary Lankford bringstogether Christmas traditions from twelve different lands,like decorations on a splendid tree.