December Holidays Library Lesson – Christmas – Hanukkah – Kwanzaa

Description

 

This December Library Lesson will save you so much time! Everything you need to teach elementary students diverse winter holiday traditions is included here. You just add the read-aloud(s) of your choice.

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS DECEMBER HOLIDAYS LIBRARY LESSON

This presentation is designed to complement a winter holidays themed read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.

• Recommended for: Grades 2-5
• Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
• Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
• Editable: YES, all text is editable

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

This December Holidays Library Lesson includes:

• 55-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
• List of 32 recommended read-alouds for December holidays (1 page)
• Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
• Take-Home Extension Activities (2 pages)
• Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
• Prep, set up, tips (6 pages)
• Editable, standards-aligned lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
• Detailed instructions for teachers and librarians

HOLIDAY THEMES

All the presentation slides are themed for December holidays. They include:

• song lyrics: “Jingle Bells”
• sign language: “holiday”
• brief information about multiple December holidays and traditions (listed below)
• weekly and daily agendas (you fill in the template)
• terms: shammash, kinara, sufganiyot, posadas
• fun facts about Christmas trees, annual snowfall, ugly sweaters
• would you rathers
• this or that
• two holiday jokes
• trivia questions and answers
• Word of the Week: evergreen and Epiphany
• Happy birthday to…
• All slides are illustrated with real photos and colorful clipart for Grades 2-5.

DECEMBER HOLIDAYS AND TRADITIONS

The presentation and activities all include these December holidays…

• Christmas
• Hanukkah
• Kwanzaa
• Pancha Ganapati (Hindu)
• Boxing Day
• Las Posadas (Mexico)
• La Befana (Italy)
• Christmas in Australia
• Ugly Sweaters
• Three King’s Day / Candlemas (Spain, Philippines, Mexico, Latin America)

DIFFERENTIATED DECEMBER HOLIDAYS – THEMED SCAVENGER HUNT

I’ve included two versions of the scavenger hunt activity to use with Part II of the presentation. Answer Key is included.

• Version 1 – students color the holiday icons and objects as they find them in the presentation slides
• Version 2 – questions about the information in the slides + smaller images to find

RECOMMENDED READS

All recommended book titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.

• Includes picture books, fiction, and nonfiction
• all have a theme of December holidays
• total of 32 titles
• includes small images from the presentation
• titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library

TAKE-HOME EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

I am so excited about this new addition to my Library Lessons! You can download an example (Spiders) here. This December Holidays Library Lesson includes a similar Take-Home Extension Activities handout, except it’s December holidays-themed.

Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page Take-Home Extension Activities Handout, students can:

• quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the December holidays facts they learned in the scrolling slides (Part II)
• prepare a holiday recipe (banana eggnog)
• review holiday vocabulary words from the lesson
• learn to draw a polar bear using simple, step-by-step directions
• remember how to sign “holiday” in American Sign Language
• complete a holiday maze
• 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF

ACCESSIBILITY

All parts of this December Holidays Library Lesson are optimized for readability. Here’s how:

• uses only two fonts (Arial and KG Blank Space Solid)
• Arial font is one of 8 accessibility fonts recommended by the British Dyslexia Association. It is also pre-loaded on most school computers.
• all but one slide uses black text on a solid white background
• no cursive fonts, fancy fonts, or random capitalizations are included
• body text line spacing is 1.5
• minimal text on each slide
• lots of white space on each slide
• scavenger hunt includes two versions. One is images only and requires no reading. The other is for students who can read short text well.

IMAGES

As a certified librarian, I am careful to use only legally-acquired images in my resources. Librarians can be assured that:

• All images in this resource were purchased for commercial use from TPT, Adobe Stock, or Unsplash Plus, or they are in the public domain (i.e., Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay).
• Every image is credited in the Slide Notes area of each slide.
• All images in this resource adhere closely to the artist or photographer’s terms of use. This is why they are all locked into the background and not editable.

In addition, all images in this resource:

• are high-quality, full-color images
• include captions
• complement the subject and text of each slide

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