This document provides holiday and winter-themed resources for teachers, including websites for learning about various holidays, ideas for holiday lesson plans and activities, and digital tools for creating videos, stories, and greetings. Some of the suggested activities are having students learn songs and traditions from different cultures through interviews or Skype calls, creating collaborative stories and videos, and playing educational games about winter holidays. The document also shares several websites where students can write letters to Santa, track Santa on Christmas Eve, and find holiday e-cards, stories, and activities.

1. Holiday
Sites &
Resources
for Teachers
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2. Blessed is the season
which engages the
whole world in a
conspiracy of love!
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

5. Cybraryman.com/decholidays.html

6. Larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/11/19/the-best-places-
to-learn-about-christmas-hanukkah-kwanzaa

7. •Teach each other
songs, carols, finger
chants, rhymes
•How to sessions about
traditions or recipes
•Interviews
•Have an author read a
holiday story
•Skype an expert

8. Education.skype.com

9. Skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com

10. Google Hang Outs on Air
•10 videos
•Collaborate on
documents
•Various apps &
games
•Broadcast to anyone
on Youtube& record
it
•Chat
•Show Youtube video

11. Lesson Ideas
•Break students into
small groups &
create a video of a
holiday play
•Have a holiday party
with many schools
•Create a
collaborative holiday
story
•Sing a group song

13. Santabot.com

14. Christmassantaclaus.com/email_santa.asp

15. Santa-at-home.com/writesanta.shtml

16. Letters to Santa App

17. Send a
holiday
greeting!

18. Jibjab.com/holidays

19. Jibjab.com/holidays

20. Voki.com
•Students choose
characters, setting, acce
ssories, etc.
•Students can upload
personalized
backgrounds
•Students add their own
voice or text-to-voice
option with various
accents
•Embed in a
blog, wiki, or website

21. Fotobabble

22. Fotobabble

23. Make a Holiday Video!

26. Red Stamp App
•Students send greeting
cards to others
•Allows them to email
the card, upload
images, include text &
has templates

27. Holiday Video Cards Vlix

28. •Modernize the lyrics to the
12 days of Christmas or any
holiday song, then create a
video
•Create movements for
specific words or phrases
•Play in the background
•Create musical instruments
& play the song
•Play games- Draw
It, Charades, Hangman, Drop
the lyrics

30. Create a Digital Story
Storybird.com/search/books/?q=christmas
Storybird.com/search/books/?q=kwanzaa
Storybird.com/search/books/?q=hanukkah

31. Cafecafegames.com/games/3760/decembe
r-escape-game.html
http://digitalplay.info/blog/?s=Christmas&=OK

33. Northpole.com

35. Northpole.com
•Create a story with the student as the star
•Chat with Santa’s elves
•Send Santa a letter and he’ll write back
•Print a Good Deeds Calendar
•Print stories & color the pages
•Christmas Countdown Calendar with fun
activities
•Play holiday games
•Send holiday e-cards
•NORAD’s Santa Tracker (Dec. 24th)

36. Livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=246031

37. Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/celebrating-december-
holidays/id6846664

38. Happy
Holidays!
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