Santa's Helper Christmas Writing

There is a fabulous book called "Who Will Help Santa This Year?" that is super adorable and absolutely hysterical.

It's all about who will help Santa and Santa finding the perfect worker (elves).  I have been really working to make writing fun for my students.  I thought this would be great because it could be short and sweet and turn into a class book.  The plan is to have each student write a paragraph about someone or something that could help Santa and tell about the things that could go wrong.  Then I am going to put it together for a class book and keepsake. My kids love to be silly and I want them to work on creativity so this should be a great starting point for them.  You can download the pages at my TPT store.

 

Christmas Scrapbook Pages

For the Christmas season I do a ton of scrapbook pages.  This year we wrote letters to Santa, letters to soldiers, and then I did a Christmas picture of the kids.  Each of those was a separate page.  For the letters to Santa and to the soldiers I used the same page.  Letters to Santa had the student's picture in the corner next to the signature.  Letters to the soldier had clip art instead.  You can premake the pages and print them out so they can be handwritten or you can have students type out their final drafts.   The result of the letter pages looked something like this:

The Christmas picture page was already shown in another post but here it is again.

The clip art is from Shalece Elynne, Surfin' Through Second, and Teaching My 3.  I also used PicMonkey to add reindeer noses and antlers, elf hants and ears, santa hats or any other cute things onto the kids' pictures.