Winter Holidays or Christmas Around the World Rotation

You can get a group of teachers to share in a Christmas or winter holiday rotation by grade level or different grade levels according to the size of your school. Each teacher prepares a lesson to cover one winter holiday. The kids rotate through the classes all day long. You can fit in four rotations of about 30-45 minutes for a lesson or you can take a whole day and make it a festival. You will cover your own class with your lesson on a separate day. Students think this is a very special day to learn and have fun because they are visiting different teachers’ classrooms. Each teacher can focus on one holiday and give it the attention it deserves instead of trying to cover a lot of different holidays in addition to the regular curriculum. We had a team of second grade teachers and each teacher took a different country and prepared a demonstration with books, passports, sample foods, craft projects, tree ornaments for a tree to display their work, and other ideas for the country. You could cover Hanukkah, Christmas Around the World, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, Diwali, and other holidays. Each group could be responsible for different winter holidays or cultural celebrations. You can learn to say Merry Christmas in many ways. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


To learn about Christmas traditions around the world, go to http://www.geocities.com/mrsjacksonsclass/worldchristmas.htm http://www.geocities.com/mrsjacksonsclass/christmascrafts.htm.