This engaging Readers Theater script for Grades 3–5 brings Winter Solstice / Yule, a pagan holiday on December 21–22 celebrating the shortest day, to life, immersing students in its historical, geographical, and astronomical significance! Through a present-day classroom and flashbacks to the 800s and 1000s CE, kids explore Yule logs, evergreen wreaths, and feasts in Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Britain), how Earth’s tilt causes the solstice, the moon’s role in timing rituals, and Yule’s influen