Year 5 Genre Writing Holidays Activities

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Have her try her hand at haiku.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Have a bookworm on your hands? She'll boost her spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Your fourth grader will get his mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. He will hone her language and spelling skills with this one!

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practise, too.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.