Subject(s): Language Arts Grades(s): Grades PreK-1, Grades 2-3

Title – Christmas Card Nouns and Adjectives
By – Kathleen Sennett
Primary Subject – Language Arts
Grade Level – 1-2

Materials:

• Christmas cards
• glue
• white paper
• pens, pencils or markers

Procedure:

• On the first day, each child gets to choose a Christmas picture that is actually the front of an old Christmas card. (I save the cards I get each year and go through them in early December, cutting off the fronts to prepare for this lesson.)
• Each child also receives a piece of white paper. They glue the card to the paper in the middle near the top.
• On the right side of the paper under the picture, the child writes down nouns that are in the picture. That afternoon I then draw horizontal lines across the paper separating each noun.
• The second day, the child writes down adjectives on the left side of the paper that describe the nouns they wrote down the previous day. I limit them to one color word and one number word as adjectives.
• The third day, they use the adjectives and nouns to write sentences or a story about their picture.

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