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Funky Reindeer Craft Template
A fun Christmas craft activity using a reindeer with funky glasses and a Christmas hat.
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The Elf Investigation – Whole Class Escape Game
Engage and excite your upper elementary students with an exciting Christmas escape room mystery.
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Christmas Worksheet - Sentence Editing
Edit and correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and spacing errors with a set of Christmas Fix the Sentence worksheets.
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Funky Christmas Tree Craft Template
A fun Christmas coloring sheet / activity to decorate a unique, funky tree.
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Elf Escape! - Digital Escape Room
Help Elfy, the classroom Elf escape the locked classroom and return to the North Pole with an exciting escape room!
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Literary Plot Elements - Graphic Organizer
Familiarize students with finding the 5 elements of plot in a literary text.
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Christmas Activity Mats
Use these Christmas activity mats during morning arrival on the last day before Christmas break.
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Printable Wanted Poster Template
A 'Wanted' poster template that can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom.
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Christmas - Simple, Complex, and Compound Sentence Sort
Practice reading, identifying, and writing simple, compound, and complex sentences with a Christmas cut and paste worksheet.
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