Everyday is a Holiday - Daily Morning Work & Bell Ringer Activities Mega Bundle

Need something to celebrate? How about a few more minutes of peace and quiet every morning. Now, there's a reason to celebrate every day!

This bell ringer morning work bundle includes close reading, writing, and graphing bell ringer activities for every day of the school year. Each day includes a different historical, silly, or themed daily "holiday" based reading passage with questions, a response activity, and a graphing question. Included student vote and graph feature allows whole class engagement after the exercise is complete, but only if and when you choose to do so.

Your students will love these fun daily holiday themed passages and activities. You'll love that students come in every morning focused and looking forward to a fun activity - giving you a little extra time to complete your morning routine uninterrupted.

These engaging standards based activities promote key skills as 2nd & 3rd grade students complete an independent morning routine.

Features:

✅ Independent: Activities are designed to be completed independently, giving teachers space to focus during their morning routine.

✅ Structured: Structured morning work activity provides students with repetitive process and clear expectations, reducing need for teacher intervention.

✅ No Grading: Results can be easily reviewed as a class or in groups.

✅ Group Engagement: Independent work can transform into class exercise with Student Vote & Graph feature.

✅ Productive: No busy work here. These passages and exercises build core reading comprehension skills.

✅ High Engagement: Each passage covers a holiday for the specific day. Students look forward to each topic. Topics range from silly to serious to engage all students.

Each day students will:

• Read a short paragraph about the daily holiday
• Answer two text-based questions by underlining the answer in the passage.
• Respond to a writing prompt.
• Select a choice for a class bar graph, then respond (orally or written) to standards-based questions.

The main standards that are covered:

1. RI.2.10/ RI.3.10 read and comprehend informational text.
2. Various writing standards including W.2.1/ W.3.1, W.2.2/ W.3.2, W.2.3/ W.3.3.
3. Math graphing standards 2.MD.D.10 & 3.MD.B.3.

Whats Included:

✔ Each monthly packet contains:

1. Monthly Holiday Cover
2. Tips for Implementation
3. Monthly Holiday Calendar
4. Bar Graphing Directions
5. Graphing Questions Form
6. Sticky Note Template
7. Daily Holiday Passages with Questions, Writing Prompts, and Graphing Sticky Note Categories

• Each day is focused on a national holiday (some real, some silly).

✔ Monthly Packets Included:

January Holidays

February Holidays

March Holidays

April Holidays

May Holidays

June Holidays

August Holidays

September Holidays

October Holidays

November Holidays

December Holidays

Differentiation Note:

This product allows for differentiation. There are paragraphs, prompts, and graph questions for every day in the school year, so you will have ample to to choose from if you want to differentiate.

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