ceciliafelsenstein Our secondary school sutdents also want to plunge into the holiday spirit! As they grow, we tend to underestimate their love for this season… but most of them still enjoy the magic December conveys. These 7 ELA Christmas Activities for high school might help you ignite a festive atmosphere in your classroom!
Christmas Activities for High School
- Christmas Vocabulary: Work with your students on Christmas vocabulary. You can make them use the words in context, make a crossword puzzle, look for specific parts of speech, etc. If you want to go on practising the words with your students, you can check out some written or oral activities to review vocabulary items.
- Haiku Poems: Ignite Holiday creativity by making them write Christmas Haiku Poems. If you click on the link, you will find a resource with information on what a haiku is, how to write one and 3 Christmas- themed templates.
- Taboo Game: This is an excellent resource to enhance communication skills, creativity, and holiday merriment. Students love to play this game and don’t realize they are learning, reinforcing vocabulary and teamwork skills! The Christmas-themed cards are perfect to use during this season!
- Idioms: Figurative language is engaging to students! You can ask them to learn a couple of Christmas idioms and use them in: songs, ads, games, memes, reels, etc! Check out this resource for 20 idioms with meanings, origins and examples and more than 10 activities to apply them and learn them!
- Writing: Unlock the Magic of Christmas Writing with super engaging descriptive and narrative prompts for Middle and High School Students.
- Project on Song Analysis: Engage your high school students in the enchanting spirit of the holiday season with this speacial project work based on the song: “It’s Beginning to Look a Little Bit like Christmas”. This is another activity which seems to be just fun but aims at working on figurative language, song analysis, research and communication skills. Your students won’t even realize they are working!
- Christmas Stories: ‘Tis the season to read Christmas stories. You can just enjoy them or you can work on comprehension skills and some grammar. Here you’ll find some activities to use with the stories: Christmas Day in the Morning and The Gift of the Magi:
So… are you going to let this Christmas season by without using Holiday resources? Try some of these and then tell me whether your students have enjoyed them or not!!
