Focus: developing vocabulary
Map it is a Quick Write in The Writing Book (page 117) that would make a great post-holiday activity.
Students could identify one event/place from the holidays and draw/annotate a map. Refer to the attached example.
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Focus: developing vocabulary
Focus: writing activity idea to support students get to know their classmates
Using funny animal images to warm students up for writing
Focus: generating ideas, sentences, words, spelling, punctuation, editing