The holiday zone

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The holiday zone.

www.theholidayzone.com

The Holiday Zone offers free educational resources for use in early childhood and elementary educational settings. Holiday and seasonal materials include learning games, whole language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, printable worksheets, printable and interactive puzzles, coloring pages, and children's literature recommendations. This site is child-friendly and does contain some content geared specifically toward children, but is targeted primarily toward educators, child care providers, and parents. The intended audience includes preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, elementary classroom teachers, homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, and others who work with children

 

The Holiday Zone also offers resources created especially for use in the ESL/EFL classroom. ESL teachers and EFL teachers alike will find information and reproducible materials to help their ELL students gain a better understanding of traditional western holidays. ESL/EFL resources include reading comprehension activities, holiday vocabulary guides, printable illustrated word wall cards, puzzles, worksheets, and discussion topics geared specifically toward English language learners (ELLs). Interactive reading comprehension tasks, interactive quizzes, and interactive puzzles are also being added for the benefit of English language learners who visit this site.

Here is an exercise for creative writing or speaking:

• Write a descriptive paragraph telling about your favorite winter activity.

• Do you prefer to be indoors or outdoors during winter? Why?

• Would you participate in a polar bear swim event? Why or why not?

• Write step-by-step directions for building a snowman.

• Make a list of ways in which winter is different from autumn.

• Brainstorm a list of winter sports. Tell which is your favorite and why.

• Think about winter in terms of your five senses. What do you hear? What do you see? What do you smell? What do you taste? What do you feel?

• Write a poem about ice, snow, or frost.

• Pretend you are a snowman. Write a story about your life.

• What is your favorite winter holiday? Why? How does your family celebrate this holiday.

• Choose two winter holidays. Make a Venn Diagram showing how they are alike and how they are different.

• Which season is your favorite? Why?

• What would happen if winter were the only season? Write a story about life in a winter-only world.

• What would you do if you woke up to three feet of snow?

• Where would you rather be in January, Canada or New Zealand? Why?