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Children will identify different family holiday traditions.

Social Studies Focus: family traditions

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Simple, rhyming text and colorful illustrations introduce kids to a wonderful array of cultural traditions from all over the world.
• This book is great for broadening knowledge and perspective, and even includes transliterations so you’re sure to pronounce each holiday correctly.

• Together, create an anchor chart of holiday words. You can start with words from the issue, like tradition, gingerbread, tree, candles, cards, and presents.
• Invite kids to share their own traditions and add more key words to the chart, such as lights, decorations, hot cocoa, and so on.

Skill: art, social-emotional learning

Materials: mitten poem template, washable paint, markers

• Invite kids to make a holiday gift their families will treasure! Pass out the template. If you like, mount the sheet on construction paper for durability.
• Have kids dip their hands in washable paint and press to make handprints inside the mittens.
• When dry, kids can decorate the mitten cuff s with crayons and markers. Finally, have them write or dictate their name and the year.