New Year's Activity Bundle - Assignments, Games, and Activities for the New Year

New Year's Activity Bundle - Assignments, Games, and Activities for the New Year: Ring in the New Year in your ELA classroom with this bundle of highly engaging resources that will hook all your students while also covering standards! There are assignments, activities, games and more that work great for the week after you return from holiday break. There are a variety of fun and creative activities to hold your students' interest!

Included in your New Year's Activity Bundle:

➡️ New Year's Around the World Nonfiction Texts and Assignments: Teach your students about how New Year's is celebrated around the world with these nonfiction articles that share the traditions, practices, and customs of different countries! The countries covered are Romania, China, Scotland, and Spain. Learning about New Year's around the world is an excellent cross-curricular activity as it connects well with social studies! This resource is a fun and engaging way to expose students to other cultures many may not be familiar with. Each text has a reading response assignment that asks students comprehension questions that require text evidence.

➡️ New Year's Resolutions and Goal Setting Lesson: Start the new year with this engaging lesson that will help your students set and achieve SMART goals and resolutions. Use the included presentation slides to guide the lesson and introduce students to resolutions and goal setting. The included graphic organizers will help students craft their own goals and resolutions for the new year! With a ready-to-share slideshow, graphic organizers, and a journal prompt response, you will have absolutely everything you need to help students start the new year off on the right foot!

➡️ New Year's Reflection Paper Fortune Teller Game: Use this fun New Year's class activity to engage your students in reflection and goal setting after the holiday break. This New Year's reflection game can easily be folded by your students with the included instructions. After it's folded, they can work with a partner to play the game and answer questions designed to have them reflect on the past year and set goals for the upcoming year.

➡️ New Year's Parts of Speech Hidden Mystery Pictures: Help your students learn parts of speech during the New Year's with these fun hidden mystery grid pictures. A color code is provided and each box has a word that students must color based on what part of speech it is! Students must know their parts of speech to know which color to use. Included are 4 different New Year's puzzles that reveal an image of a calendar, firework, disco ball, and clock! The student handouts and answer keys are both included.

➡️ New Year's Figurative Language Assignments: These three ready-to-use figurative language assignments include a variety of New Year-themed sentences that incorporate an example of metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, oxymoron, or onomatopoeia! An answer key is provided to easily mark or review the assignments with students!

What Teachers Are Saying About The Activities in the New Year's Activity Bundle:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have used this for several years, right after returning from the holidays. It is a great, educational way to ease back in.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is such a great resource for having students learn a sense of culture and diversity. My 8th graders really enjoyed reading about the different cultures and traditions. I used this as a group activity where I had small groups of students read and complete the questions for each country, then they had to do a "mini" presentation and teach the class what they learned. They loved being the teacher.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Such a fun activity to do either before holiday break or in the first days coming back to school after holiday break.

Pair this with our New Year's Reading Mystery

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