The free teaching resources in this December edition of my newsletter are all
related to Winter and Christmas.
This December edition of Teachers Have Class contains the following free teaching resources:


The links to download the free teaching resources that are found in this
edition of Teachers Have Class will only be available for 5 days.
After 5 days, the download links to these free teaching resources will be
removed. Then, I will post this newsletter on my website so that teachers
who visit Unique Teaching Resources will be able to read old editions
of Teachers Have Class.
Although teachers who visit my website can read all of the previous editions
of my newsletters, I only provide these free monthly teaching resources to the teachers
who have signed up to receive Teachers Have Class. These free resources are
my small way of thanking these teachers for their support and interest.

In each of my newsletters, I include a free set of creative writing teaching resources that contains a bulletin board display banner and matching printable worksheets.
During the month of December, have your students write a winter poem or story using these unique tree templates.
These tree templates will help you to design an eye catching winter bulletin board display inside your classroom this December.




Encourage your students to work towards achieving a goal that you set for them this December
by using these fun Christmas stocking sticker charts.
Cut out your students' sticker chart templates along the thick black border and you will have unique stocking shaped sticker charts to record your students' progress towards reaching a goal that you set for them this December.
This set of teaching resources includes:
There are 20 sticker chart spaces on the stocking template. These Christmas sticker charts can be used for a variety of different purposes during the month of December: homework, reading, math, spelling, or good citizenship.




For this free Christmas math powerpoint lesson, students have to solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations, using an engaging puzzle style format.


These Christmas math puzzles work well as a daily warm up activity and your students could complete one puzzle each day prior to the winter vacation.
There are 5 sets of question and answer slides in this powerpoint lesson, as well as 2 student response worksheets (one worksheet is shown below).

I hope that your students have fun solving these fun animated math puzzles during the month of December.

Each month I provide a free printable calendar set in my newsletter. These free calendar sets
can be displayed on a bulletin board or placed inside a pocket chart.
Below each calendar set, you will find a list of writing prompts for that month that may spark a creative writing idea that you could use with your students.
Below is my December printable calendar set and the link to download it. The December title is a 2 page banner that should fit in most standardized monthly pocket charts that many teachers use. I have designed large December days of the week that you may find useful. The calendar number dates also fit in pocket charts, and I have included a blank square and a birthday square to use.
There are 11 printable calendar pages
in this December teaching resources set.



Starting with this December 2011 newsletter, I am changing the layout of the writing prompts section
of Teachers Have Class.
My newsletters were getting very long due to the writing prompts that were included in the last section of my newsletters.
To save time and space, I am now going to provide a link to go to a new page on my website that contains those writing prompts instead.
Click on the link below to view my extensive list of Christmas and December writing prompts.
When you arrive on this page you will find a long list of
general writing prompts for December, as well as writing
prompts for the specific holidays that are listed below.



Please be sure to check out the other pages on Unique
Teaching Resources for a large variety of fun lesson plan activities
that will engage your students in learning and save you valuable time.
Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
Creator and Site Manager
Unique Teaching Resources



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Heidi, I just had to write and let you know that your website has helped me create the most awesome author study of Roald Dahl's books. My students loved completing the big animal shaped projects you designed for The Enormous Crocodile, Esio Trot, and The Giraffe, and the Pelly and Me. For the final project, they had so much fun writing and drawing about the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory using your Willy Wonka Factory project. Thanks for sharing your scrumdiddlyumptious ideas!
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Thank you for all that you do! You are helping all of us to become better educators!
I just wanted to take a minute to say THANK YOU for the free downloads that are included in your newsletter Teachers Have Class each month, I look forward to receiving every single issue. I absolutely love your products and what you do. I am so excited to use your resources through my teaching journey. Keep up the awesome work. Happy Holidays!
Your lesson plans for Stellaluna, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas have saved me so much planning time this year. My Gr. 3 students really enjoyed completing the projects that you designed for each of these books. I was able to create great Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas displays in my classroom this year with their projects. Thanks for sharing your ideas and for saving me time.
My students loved your seasonal powerpoint games for Halloween and Thanksgiving. They thought they were playing a game instead of reviewing grammar ;-) I've already purchased all of your other holiday powerpoint lesson plans. Keep making more of these great activities, more POWER to you Heidi!
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I feel so fortunate to have found your website and I have referred several of my co-workers to your website. Just for the month of January, there were three teachers displaying your book reports. I had the trophy reports, my neighbor to the left had the computer reports, and my neighbor to the right had the birthday cake reports. Thank you so very much for all of your work!
I just wanted to say thank you for the most amazing teaching resources that I have ever come across in my thirty years of teaching. I have used many of your book report sets this year and my students absolutely loved them. What was particularly pleasing was seeing some of my reluctant readers (especially the boys) really wanting to read books and complete the activities. Keep up the great work!
I am in awe of what you have accomplished and created for those of us teaching in the public sector. Good for you for taking time off and self publishing. Your enthusiasm is contagious and your generosity is amazing. I recently provided a reading in-service for the K-5 staff at my school. I listed your website as a "must" to visit.
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I'm writing to tell you that my students just finished the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory group projects. They worked so hard, and the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory projects turned out great! We had them to show for student led conferences. The parents were very impressed, and so were many of the other teachers and my principal. They all commented on my students' work and your creative templates. My students had so much fun doing these projects. I also used the multiplication pizza sticker charts. My students loved those as well!! Thank you so much for all of your amazing products.
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