Grades+5-6

= = Intermediate Level Ideas  //This site contains links and information for teaching holidays and seasons to Grades 5 and 6. Many of the activities can be adapted to any grade levels. Enjoy! //

Websites: [|Christmas Math Games Blog] *Contains various math games for 5th grade and up students Blog created by Denise  [|Multiclultural Calendar]   *Created by students about holidays all over the world [|Teacher Blog] *Teachers share ideas of how they celebrate multicultural holidays in their classrooms <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|Thanksgiving for ESL students]<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Ideas for helping ESL students learn more about this holiday <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|5th grade writing ideas] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Holiday Writing for 5th grade (requires subscription, but first 7 days are free)– Many holiday writing ideas, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Halloween <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|6th grade writing ideas] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Holiday Writing for 6th grade (requires subscription, but first 7 days are free) – Many writing ideas to use in conjunction with holidays, including President's Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day <span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">Lessons: <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|Multicultural Holidays for ESL students]    *ESL students use their artwork to illustrate holidays of their culture <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|5th grade lesson for Kwanzaa] *Students research and plan a Kwanzaa celebration [|6th grade Lincoln activity for President's Day] *Students investigate Lincoln's assassination and perform a play in groups [|Valentine's Day Sentences] *Give students candy hearts to create a specific type of sentence (declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory) [|Ramadan Lesson] *Students draw maps and do research to learn more about this holiday [|Day of the Dead Lesson] *Research famous Mexicans and make the art projects that coincide with the lesson [|Columbus Day (Native American Perspective)] *Several activities integrated into this lesson plan, such as discussions, making time lines, and reader's theater [|Easter - Writing myths] *Teaching students how to write a myth by learning about the origin of the Easter Bunny [|Hana Matsuri (Budda's Birthday)] *Students learn about Budda, write a haiku, and write to a pen-pal in Japan [|St.Patrick's Day Limericks] <span style="display: block; font-size: 70%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Students learn how to correctly make limericks <span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">Activities: <span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|Chinese New Year] <span style="display: block; font-size: 70%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Use virtual shapes to create animals [|Halloween Craft] <span style="display: block; font-size: 70%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Make a Halloween "snow globe" [|Seasonal Math Problems] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Math problems based on the seasons from September-June <span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">[|Christmas Scavenger Hunts] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">*Four scavenger hunts for students to find information about Christmas traditions around the world <span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;"> //<span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">Site worked on by Carrie Young and Brooke Sieg // <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">home <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">  <span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(254, 154, 254); text-align: center;">