Christmas Math Packets for Kindergarten to 5th Grade

The week before winter break is the hardest week of the year to teach a new lesson in. There is a concert, a class party and a countdown on the board, and the math block shrinks to whatever fits between them. These packets do not try to fight that. They keep the fall's math moving with a small routine that runs through all of it.

One routine for the whole week

• Five days, three pages a day: a warm up of easier problems, then one sheet printed front and back.
• Review only. Every page practices skills taught since September, so it needs no lesson in front of it.
• A note and a skills guide up front, so any adult can run it, and a tracker the children check off themselves.
• An optional Challenge Day at the end, a notch harder, for the student who asks for more.
• Answer keys that name their pages, and a certificate for the finished week.

Kindergarten Christmas math packet

The Kindergarten packet (27 pages, 121 problems, $6.95) gives a short stretch of calm math each day: counting, writing numbers, comparing, shapes and first addition facts, with every question written out for an adult to read aloud.

1st grade Christmas math packet

The 1st grade packet (28 pages, 222 problems, $6.95) keeps addition and subtraction facts, tens and ones, number patterns and story problems moving, two skills to a side.

2nd grade Christmas math packet

The 2nd grade packet (27 pages, 252 problems, $6.95) gives two digit addition and subtraction every day, with coin counting, skip counting and two step story problems mixed in.

3rd grade Christmas math packet

The 3rd grade packet (28 pages, 279 problems, $6.95) asks for the facts the other way around: most fact pages give the missing factor, as in 6 × ___ = 42, and division works the same way. Rounding, addition and subtraction and one step story problems fill out the week, and the Challenge Day brings in facts with 11s and 12s.

4th grade Christmas math packet

The 4th grade packet (27 pages, 177 problems, $6.95) keeps two digit multiplication, division with remainders, fractions with like denominators and place value in use through the last week before break.

5th grade Christmas math packet

The 5th grade packet (28 pages, 188 problems, $6.95) runs long division, multi digit multiplication, fraction addition and place value in short daily pieces, so two weeks off do not undo them.

The Kindergarten to 5th grade bundle (165 pages)

The Christmas Math Packet bundle carries all six grades for $29.95, against $41.70 bought separately, so the whole hallway runs the same routine the same week.

Before and after the week

For the mornings of December there is December math morning work, one page a day for twenty school days. For the two weeks off, the ten-day winter break packets go home on the last day with the same note-and-tracker routine.