Christmas and Holidays Around the World Centers

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Christmas around the world extended to your math and literacy centers!

These centers are perfect for December as you explore Christmas around the world. This unit includes 10 literacy and 10 math centers that are aligned to the Common Core Standards. Help your kindergarten or first grade students celebrate holidays from other cultures with these fun activities and worksheets!

Christmas Around the World Literacy Centers:
❄️Do You Hear What I Hear? (rhyming words)
❄️Feliz Navidad (syllable identification)
❄️This is Christmas! (emergent reader)
❄️St Nikolas Day (initial sounds)
❄️Fill the stockings with sounds (initial sounds)
❄️Plum Perfect Words (Editable high-frequency words)
❄️o or i? (medial sounds)
❄️Befana’s Gifts (beginning sounds)
❄️12 Days of Christmas (ABC order)
❄️Russian Rhymes (Rhyming words)

Christmas Around the World Math Centers:
❄️In My Stocking (counting and cardinality)
❄️Fa-La-La-La (measuring)
❄️10 Frames (counting and cardinality)
❄️Around the World Write the Room (counting and cardinality)
❄️Cutie Carolers (Addition/subtraction 2 options)
❄️Gingerbread 10 frames
❄️Nutcracker Base 10
❄️Sweet Bread Numerical Order
❄️Adding Up for Christmas (addition)
❄️Christmas Friends (subtraction)

CCSS addressed:
K.RF2.a Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Recognize and produce rhyming words.
K.RF2.b Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
K.RFS.3 Read common high-frequency words by sight.
K.RFS.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
L.K.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
K.L.RF.3a Know and apply grade level phonics…medial sounds.
K.L.RF.3a Know and apply grade level-initial sounds.
K.RF.K.1d Recognize and name letters.
K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.
K.MD.1 Measurement
K.CC.5 Count to tell the number of objects.
K.OA.A.1 Represent addition with objects.

These centers will last you for weeks and weeks. The common core chart takes the guess work out of your planning! Christmas around the world activities that are just right for kindergarten.

Enjoy!

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