Christmas Around the World, Grades 3-5

Take your class on a Christmas journey to ten countries without leaving the classroom. This 60-page pack for grades 3-5 pairs reading, geography, and festive fun, so students learn how families around the world celebrate Christmas while building real reading and map skills.

The journey visits Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and the Philippines. Each country gets three pages: a reading passage about its Christmas traditions, foods, and celebrations; four comprehension questions with three answer choices; and a map and fact file where students record the capital, language, greeting, and continent, and choose one tradition to remember. Along the way students learn greetings from Feliz Navidad to Maligayang Pasko, and discover why Christmas falls in summer in Australia and Brazil and in winter in Germany and Sweden.

After the country pages, the pack keeps going with a map overview, compare-and-contrast writing, matching games for traditions, greetings, and foods, a world-map labeling activity, two ten-question quizzes, true or false, a word search, riddles, fill-in-the-blank facts, a continent sort, review questions, and a two-part final challenge. Students finish by designing a Christmas celebration of their own, borrowing ideas from two countries they visited.

Teachers get complete answer keys on pages 51-59, clearly marked for teacher use only, plus a printable certificate on page 60 to celebrate every world traveler. Print and go, with nothing to prepare beyond pencils.