Christmas Fourth Grade Homeschool Ideas
Christmas is a magical time of year. I am a bit Christmas obsessed. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays so I never jump ahead, BUT the moment Thanksgiving is over we dive head first into Christmas. Therefore, with homeschooling my Fourth Graders, Christmas is taking over that area of life as well.
Here are our Homeschool Christmas Plans…
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Christmas Math
- Read Christmas Farm and play Grow Tree Farm Game from Math Geek Mama.
- 12 Days of Christmas Math Word Problems from TpT
- Make Santa Coordinates Pictures from TpT
- Christmas Math Games from TpT
- Bake Christmas Cookies (also relates to Science and Social Studies)
Christmas ELA
- Read Aloud a Chapter of How Winston Delivered Christmas by Alex T Smith each day. This book is so much fun. It is a story with a chapter for every day of Advent. It also has activity ideas throughout the book.
- Read: Best Christmas Pagent Ever
- Read The Polar Express and listen for metaphors and similes
- Compare and Contrast Traditional Christmas tales.
- Write our own Christmas story using the general structure from Write Shop.
- Watch Christmas movies once a week for our Brave Writer Movie Nights.
- Christmas Madlibs or do this Cookie Madlibs from TpT
- Roll a Christmas Story on TpT
- Christmas Vocabulary Pages from TpT
Christmas Social Studies
Christmas is different all around the world. We’ve been exploring different world cultures this year and in December we are going to learn about how different cultures celebrate Christmas. We are going to cookie cookies from around the world including some from the The World of Cookies for Santa book by M. E. Furman.
Here are some more Christmas traditions from around the world to try:
German Christmas Traditions:
- Advent Calendars : here’s a piece on the history of German advent calendars in case you’re curious.
- St Nicholas Day which is on December 6 this year.
- Advent Wreath
- Christmas Tree Pickles
- Sing German Christmas Songs like Silent Night
French Christmas Traditions:
- Try bûche de Noël, a chocolate sponge cake log
Irish & English Christmas Traditions:
- The day after Christmas Day, St. Stephen’s Day (known as Boxing Day in the UK and some other countries), is also very important in Ireland. In both countries, football matches and horse racing meetings are traditionally held on St. Stephen’s Day.
Italian Christmas Traditions
- One of the most important ways of celebrating Christmas in Italy is the Nativity crib scene. Using a Nativity scene to help tell the Christmas story was made very popular by St. Francis of Assisi in 1223 (Assisi is in mid-Italy).
- Epiphany is also important in Italy. On Epiphany night, children believe that an old lady called ‘Befana’ brings presents for them. The story about Befana bringing presents is very similar to the story of Babushka.
- Make: Penettone Recipe:
Mexican Christmas Traditions
- From December 16th to Christmas Eve, children often perform the ‘Posada’ processions or Posadas. Posada is Spanish for Inn or Lodging. We’ll be reading Tomie dePaola’s book about Posada and acting it out if my kids are interested.
- One game that is often played at Posada parties is piñata. A piñata is a decorated clay or papier-mâché jar filled with sweets and hung from the ceiling or tree branch.
Christmas STEM
- Bake different Christmas cookies every week for our Poetry Tea Time. We’ve been baking and cooking a lot this year. We’ll be focusing on Christmas cookies through around the world.
- Build a Nativity Scene with Legos. There’s a Nativity Scene Lego Kit or you can challenge your kids to create their own with the pieces you already have.
- Cook our Raddish Kids Seasons Eatings kit.
- Grow Candy Cane Crystals with these printables.
- Code Christmas songs on Scratch
Christmas Music and Art
- Learn Christmas songs on the piano and recorder. My kids are beginners so these will be very basic songs.
- Christmas Music Theory lessons from My Fun Piano Studio
- Christmas Music Listening Worksheet from TpT
- Read Aloud Revival Christmas drawing lessons.
- Play Christmas Pictionary
- Deep Space Sparkle Reindeer or Santa art lesson.
- Virtual Field Trip to see the Nutcracker and do related art and dance activities.
- Put on a Christmas Show via zoom for our Grandparents. The kids will perform their piano and recorder pieces and read aloud their Christmas stories.
Christmas PE
- Christmas Decoration Scavenger Hunt walk around our neighborhood.
- Use Christmas brain breaks to create Christmas themed circuit workout.
- Go for a walk in Balboa Park to look for signs of Christmas
