Northpole.com
What it is: Northpole.com is a fun Christmas themed website for kids pre-k through 3rd grade. Students can work on fine motor skills with activities like connect the dots, connect the dashes, and mazes. You will also find great Christmas time activities to help build letter recognition, sound recognition, vocabulary, numbers, ordinal numbers, right and left, and size. Students can practice writing skills with a letter to Santa or a holiday postcard. Northpole.com has printable awards and diplomas for students who complete the activities. Northpole.com also has a number of online Christmas stories that students can read on their own or have read to them. My favorite feature are the personalized stories. Students fill in their name and some other information and Northpole.com creates a story with the student as the main character that they can immediately read online!
How to integrate Northpole.com into the classroom: Use the outstanding activities on Northpole.com during the holiday season to teach and reinforce fine motor skills, alphabet, numbers, reading, and writing. Set up your classroom computer as a personalized story generator. Throughout the week, allow students to read a story about themselves during silent reading time.
Tips: The teacher page at Northpole.com gives a great break down of the site so you can find exactly what you are looking for.
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