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Holiday	Description	Link
Nevada Day	Passage and questions, matched to the state test, about Nevada Day.	here
Nevada Day	Students learn about Nevada’s state seal and state symbols. Then they create a new state seal, based on what Nevada means to them.	here
Halloween	Dissolving Candy Corn Lab Experiment	Lesson Plan Worksheet
Halloween	Passage about the history of Halloween in the United States with comprehension questions that mirror the state assessment.	here
Halloween	Students decorate a pumpkin, based on a fictional book character, and take a picture of their creation. Classmates guess which character the pumpkin represents. Thanks Chauncey Ashby	here
Halloween	Craft: Coffee Filter Bat	here
Halloween	STEM: candy pumpkin catapult challenge	here Video here
Halloween	STEM: spider parachute challenge	here
Halloween	STEM: bone bridge challenge	here
Halloween	Stacey Cavakis put together this activity to integrate math with the holiday.	here
Veterans Day	A short passage and questions, matched to the Smarter Balanced stems.	here
Thanksgiving	Cranberry Engineering Challenge: Build a Bridge using toothpicks and cranberries.	Lesson Student Sheet
Thanksgiving	Design a Turkey (Download to PowerPoint if you are sharing with students via Teams) Thanks for finding this and the other Slide decks below Marta Miller!	here
Thanksgiving	Turkey Trouble, read by Marc Maron. This goes with the Design a Turkey activity	here
Thanksgiving	Decorate a Turkey, thanks Marilyn Stefan for this find	here
Thanksgiving	Virtual Fall Design Challenge, Fall Edition	here
Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving Math Challenge (2nd grade)	here
Thanksgiving	A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Breakout Room
Thanksgiving	Balloons over Broadway, Thanksgiving	here
Thanksgiving	Would your Rather, Thanksgiving Edition	here
Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving Math Shopping (with decimals and estimation)	here
Christmas	15 Free Mad Libs	here
Christmas	Polar Express Scavenger Hunt	here
Christmas	Decorate a gingerbread house	here
Christmas	Decorate Your Plaid Stocking, wreath, tree, snow globe, snowman, gingerbread house	here
Christmas	Would your Rather, Winter Edition	here
Christmas	Christmas Movies Cause and Effect	here
Christmas	Long Division Escape Room, Grinch Theme	here
Christmas	Not the Night Before Christmas Reader’s Theater (Thanks for finding and sharing this Janis Ni	here
Christmas	Christmas Scavenger Hunt	here
Christmas	Christmas Family Feud. In order to reveal an answer, you have to click on the text box and delete. There is also an answer key at the end.	here
Christmas	Christmas Emoji Pictionary	here
Winter	Winter Jokes	here
Valentines	Would you Rather printable cards. Works well with an activity like Quiz, Quiz, Trade	here
Valentines	Would You Rather, Google Slides, Valentines edition	here
Valentines	Decorate a Valentines, in PowerPoint	here
Valentines	Virtual Valentines Day Cards, in SeeSaw	here
Valentines	Students share Valentines with each other with this deck of slides	here
Valentines	Mini Art Lesson: How to draw a Pop Art Heart inspired by Romero Britto	here
Valentines	Curated Valentines read alouds, with links to YouTube	here
St. Patrick’s Day	24 Would Your Rather questions, for St. Patrick’s Day	here
St. Patrick’s Day	A St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt	here
St. Patrick’s Day	Saint Patrick’s Day Unit Rooms	here
April Fools’ Day	Students follow a series of silly steps, unless they follow the first step correctly. 🙂 (Old version here)	here
April Fools’ Day	Flood drill presentation replete with steps for kids to follow. 🙂	here
Teacher Appreciation Week	Students complete making a flower, either by drawing petals or using thumb prints, and then respond to three short prompts.	here
Mother’s Day	From Let Grow, coupons, coloring page, card template, and “All About My Mom” template.	here

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