Teaching Resources and Materials for the Christmas Season - Elementary Grades

Are you looking for educational and fun teacher materials for the Christmas season?  Just read and browse below to find some that are tried and true. Children learn with smiling faces.  Teacher Idea: Leave some of these pages for your substitute teacher.   
Trouble with Trolls - Book Companion  

Reader Response pages 
for the wonderful book, Trouble with Trolls, by Jan Brett. Teach story elements and character traits, new vocabulary, and word study. 33 pages to use with this picture book. These pages can easily be assigned for independent seatwork, small reading groups, or entire class. This book is truly a wonderful book to read aloud.


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Santa's Elves - Work Ethic

Teach Work Ethic with Santa’s Elves
Academic practice pages that teach the importance of a good work ethic with Santa's elves theme. These 17 pages give practice and review for literacy.  They all have an elf theme.  Fun and educational!

Focus skills include:

  • keywords to understand the meaning of a good work ethic
  • writing sentences for each keyword
  • answering questions (short answer)
  • writing prompts about work ethic at school
  • Santa's elves as role models
  • designing ornaments
  • 4-square graphic organizer for the importance of work ethic
  • elf job application


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Christmas Pages -Academic Worksheets

Academic practice pages with a Christmas theme. These 7 pages give practice and review for literacy and math ...

Focus skills include:

  • capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
  • capital letters for proper names
  • addition facts
  • writing short stories
  • writing captions for pictures

All seven pages have a Christmas theme. Fun and educational !

These pages can easily be assigned for independent seatwork

and school-at-home.


Math Practice Pages - Christmas
    Double and Triple Digit Addition and Subtraction Practice Pages with a Christmas Theme. These worksheets provide practice in adding and subtracting double-digit numbers without regrouping. Also included finding the pattern, writing the missing numbers, and adding a single column of 3 single digits. These pages can be fun and colorful to practice the skill of adding and subtracting double and triple-digit numbers with a Christmas theme. Set them at a math station for needed practice on a math skill learned and mastered. Assign for independent math practice for double-digit addition and subtraction. There are 16 total worksheets and 16 total answer sheets included.