Christmas Resources for the Elementary Classroom

20 riddles for the month of December for your students to read, think, write and solve. These riddles are a great writing activity for morning seat work. Students settle right in with reading and writing. It is motivating because the children love to guess what today's riddle answer might be. You can easily assign these riddles for distance learning and school-at-home work.

Each riddle is a December - Christmas theme idea and contains many high frequency words. Your students read the riddle, think, and write a sentence that answers the question. Next, they illustrate the sentence that they wrote. This is a motivating writing-reading-thinking literacy activity that you may use for morning seat work, homework, for fast finishers or anytime. This resource includes teacher directions, bin labels and an answer key.

Also there are covers if you wish to make an 'December Riddle' booklet.  It is appropriate for grades 1 -2 and homeschoolers.  Find your Morning Riddles for Christmas HERE




Solve and Color Christmas pages for Holiday fun.... Learning Multiplication. These pages are NO PREP and give multiplication practice while coloring in fun Christmas pages. Students solve the multiplication fact and color the products using the code on top of the page. This math assignment can easily be assigned for distance learning and school-at-home.

You can find these pages HERE



Read on to find more teaching resources for the 

Holiday season. 

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Create some merry and bright Christmas math stationsteaching resources, MrsQuimbyReads





Addition Facts Practice  - Set up a Christmas Math Station 
with Little Elf Cover Up


Christmas math resources
Little Elf Cover Up



a simple and fun game to place in a math station. Roll the dice. Add the numbers. Find the elf. Cover the number. You can laminate these pages or place them in a protective covering so the children can use them over and over.

Included are:

7 elf cards with numbers in color

7 elf cards with numbers b&w

directions for teacher.  You will need dice and pompoms. 

Christmas Math Center
Christmas Math Center
    
Counting and Number Sense 

Set up a 'Christmas' Math center with these write and spin pages. Learn to count and write numbers. Pages focus on learning and writing the numbers from 0-9, counting and recognizing numbers.     

spin and write {spin and count, then write}

How many? Count and write the number

Color the elf and Christmas Tree by number …

Handwriting Practice of Numbers 0-9 – use any time

Math Resources, Multiplication, Christmas
Reindeer Cover Up - Multiplication


Reindeer Cover-Up is a simple and fun game to place in a math station at Christmas time. Practice multiplication facts to the 6x table. Roll the dice. Multiply the numbers. Find the reindeer. Cover the number.

Laminate these pages or place them in a protective covering so the children can use them over and over.

Included are:

• 7 reindeer cards with numbers in color

• 7 reindeer cards with numbers b&w

• directions for teacher

• you will need dice and pom poms or counters


                                           And one more! Of course, writing a wish list: 

Write a Christmas Wish List
Writing a Christmas wish list is fun and an authentic writing experience for children. With this list you also get to see what books that hope to get and read for the holidays. This writing assignment can easily be assigned for distance learning and school-at-home.