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There are so many places to visit and things to do at Santa's Secret Village! We suggest teachers start by visiting Elf Pal Academy—where you'll find fun, yet educational, exercises for children from Pre-K to 3rd grade. Activities are grouped by categories and are intentionally not labeled with a grade guide index but instead are designed to encourage children to challenge themselves at their appropriate skill level.
Once Elf Academy diplomas are handed out, you can continue your northpole experience through the village looking for the hidden stories to read and color, send letters to Santa, postcards to friends and much much more. |
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Basic Motor Skills
Connect-the-dots and connect-the-dashes exercises help students improve motor skills. The six basic shapes are also presented in connect-the-dashes exercises. Simple mazes provide both motor and visual skill practice. |
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Learning Letters
Learn the alphabet, improve motor skills and draw the picture through connect-the-letters. Included are exercises for both upper-case and lower-case letters. Our letter concentration game helps students learn the alphabet and develop memory skills. |
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Sound Recognition
Fill-in-the-letter and spell-the-word exercises address vowels and consonants. Rhyming words make it fun to sound out the word. |
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Vocabulary
Word-search games are entertaining ways to learn words and improve spelling. |
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Learning Numbers
Exercises to help develop skills in counting, writing and spelling numbers are offered in colorful holiday illustrations. Connect-the-number exercises help children learn to count while enjoying the picture they draw. Math riddles and flash cards provide fun activities for reviewing simple addition and subtraction skills. |
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Visual Skills
Want something a little more challenging? Let students try advanced mazes or focus on drawing skills. Good at details? Have students try their skills at exercises that focus on noticing details. |
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Working with Positions
Who’s on first, What’s on second, I don’t know is on third… Children will be entertained while working on positioning skills. |
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Recognizing Right & Left
Children will enjoy the colorful Christmas artwork while learning left and right. |
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Working with Sizes
How big is big? Four exercises challenge children with the task of differentiating big from small. |
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Writing
Let students send a letter to Santa or holiday greetings to family or friends.
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Awards
These printable awards can be personalized with each student’s name:
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Diploma
Award children for a job well done with a printable Elf Pal Academy diploma (signed by Santa and including the official northpole.com Santa emblem). |
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Hidden Stories
Children will enjoy finding the 10 ‘hidden’ stories from easy clues or by sliding the mouse over the screen. Stories are hidden in the Reindeer Barn, Mrs. Claus' Kitchen, Santa's Workshop and Santa’s Den. |
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Personalized Stories
Children can personalize 3 different stories—each with themselves as the star! To create a personalized story, the students just answer a few short questions and with the click of a mouse they have a story about themselves to read, print, and keep. These stories are in Santa’s Den: |
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Coloring Pages
All 12 stories in Santa’s Workshop are fully illustrated like the other stories, but these also have black and white versions of the illustrations that can be printed out for children to color.
These stories include: |
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Tell us what you want!
Teachers, we welcome your suggestions on how we can improve this site and make it more beneficial. What additional features would you find helpful? Please send your specific requests and recommendations to us at . We are also interested in how you use the site, for example, as a complement to your lesson plans, to teach Internet and computer skills, or for holiday entertainment. Thank you for your participation in northpole.com! |
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