Santa Claus and Lesson Planning
Resources Exploring “Santa Claus”
Have Fun Lesson Planning Santa Claus
Christmas week will be here before we can be fully prepared. It can get a little crazy the last few weeks before the school break. This post is filled with quick fillers for when you have some time to fill or when the kids need to take a breather. As an Amazon Associate I can earn a small commission for links in this blog.
There are seven online readings of some neat and fun Santa books. Each book is accompanied by a FREE resource from some amazing teacher creators at TpT. I have included six cool Santa Bonus Songs at the end of the post. Want more Christmas resources? Check out my other blogs The Nativity and Countdown to Christmas posts. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
How Santa Got His Job
“When Santa was young and needed a job, no one was looking for a man in a red suit to deliver gifts on Christmas. So Santa tried just about everything — from a chimney sweep to a postman to a circus performer. But none of these worked out. It wasn’t until he met a group of elves who helped him use all his special talents, that Santa was able to find his dream job.” – Exerpt Amazon
Book Bites: How Santa Got His Job
“Students will listen to the story, How Santa Got His Job, by Stephen Krensky and identify the many different problems that Santa had with all of his different jobs. The download includes a book discussion guide and a printable activity. The printable activity comes in four differentiated formats. Perfect to use across grade levels and student abilities.” Excerpt The Library Patch
The Polar Express
“A young boy, lying awake one Christmas Eve, is welcomed aboard a magical trip to the North Pole . . . Through dark forests, over tall mountains, and across a desert of ice, the Polar Express makes its way to the city atop the world, where the boy will make his Christmas wish.” – Excerpt Amazon
Letter to Santa
“Write a Letter to Santa FREEBIE was designed to inspire your students to get excited about writing and have a little fun at the same time. Holiday writing FUN!” – Excerpt Teacher Karma
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
‘Twas the day before / Christmas and Santa was ill. /In the cold winter wind he /had caught a bad chill. / Will Christmas be canceled? /Will it come to that? /“Never!” cried Santa. / “Let’s call Pete the Cat!” – Excerpt Amazon
How to Catch Santa
“After waiting for days and days and days, it’s finally Christmas Eve. And that’s when you can try to catch Santa. . . . ” – Excerpt Amazon
How to Catch Santa
“Several writing activities to help students make a plan to catch Santa. Great for brainstorming and sequencing. Includes graphic organizers, writing pages, and some Santa images to glue on.” – Excerpt Simply Kinder
Turkey Claus
“Turkey needs Santa’s help so he won’t be eaten for Christmas dinner. Turkey is in trouble. Again. He made it through Thanksgiving without becoming a turkey dinner, but now it’s almost Christmas, and guess what’s on the menu? Turkey decides the only thing to do is to ask Santa for help. He sets off for the North Pole, but getting in to see Santa at Christmastime isn’t as easy as Turkey expected.” – Excerpt Amazon
Talking Turkey Claus Hat
“A great craft to use when reading Turkey Claus!!” – Excerpt Texas Speech Mom
Twas the Night Before Christmas
“Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house…” A classic must read!
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas STEM Pop-up Card
Santa’s Stuck
“This playful picture book answers the age-old question: Just how does Santa shimmy up and down chimneys? Not very easily sometimes! When the rotund fellow with a sweet tooth overdoes it on the snacks, he gets stuck inside a chimney. The reindeer on the roof try pulling him out, to no avail. A dog, a cat, and some kittens try pushing from below, with no luck. It takes a tiny, ingenious mouse to come up with the way to POP! Santa out so that Christmas can go on. Good show—ho, ho, ho!” – Excerpt Amazon
Santa’s Stuck Book Companion
“This is a free set of literacy activities to go along with the book Santa’s Stuck by Rhonda Gowler Greene and Henry Cole.” – Excerpt Staying Cool in the Library
If you like these free resources please consider following these teacher creators. They are always developing new and cool things, for you and I, to share with young learners.
Bonus: Santa Songs
The last couple of videos are some fun songs you might want to share with your students. There are lots of playlists on YouTube and you never know what is in the mix. These are here for quick access to some cool Santa songs. Merry Christmas!
S-A-N-T-A
This song is similar to the song “B-I-N-G-O” only uses the word Santa. Excellent for a brain break! Have kids stand and clap hands or do other fun movements as they sing the song.
Santa, Where Are You?
Another fun song from Super Simple Songs. This is a cool song for teaching kids locations or an into to prepositions of place.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
This version is from Busy Beavers. It has the words on the bottom of the simple video animation.
Here Comes Santa Claus
Another song from Busy Beavers. Kids singing the songs and watching the words on the screen will help to reinforce reading skills.
It Must Be Santa
Kids night not be familiar with this Christmas song, however, I am sure they will have a lot of fun leaning to sing.
Up On The Housetop
The last song is from Super Simple Songs. Classic and fun. Kids can get the wiggles out and have fun singing and dancing to “Up On The Housetop.”
Drawing Santa Lesson
Meet Rob from Art for Kids Hub. As a teacher I appreciate his patience and art drawing lessons for kids. In this episode he is with his son Chuckers and they draw a Santa face. If you share this with younger kids simply pause periodically to let them catch up. Enjoy!
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I hope it was helpful, informative and helped save you time and money as you prepare your lessons. Merry Christmas!
Ho, Ho, Ho!
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