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[blunder1983]

Thought it'd be nice to pool ideas for lessons on Xmas.

I am doing a lot of lessons on Xmas and this is what I've come up with so far:

Main lessons (40 kids)

Xmas Discovery

I have 4 sheets filled with pics and info on Xmas; Christmas presents, Christmas dinner, The Christmas story and The countdown to Christmas. These consist of 2 paragraphs of various infos.

The kids are separated into groups of 4 and get a sheet filled with questions. The kid writing the answers must say at the table, the others go and "discover" the answers. This is designed for middle school kids, but the weaker groups get hints telling them which sheets to read in order to answer the questions.

Christmas Carols

The kids learn Jingle Bells (the actual carol is still being decided) they listen to the tune, and fill in a work sheet with various exercises; order the sentences, choose the words, match meanings with definitions, etc.

Christmas Cards

Show examples of Xmas cards and brainstorm the typical images used on the front. Repeat with the message inside. Then have them make the cards. Other people have posted really nice card designs which I may steal . I am giving the kids the chance to send cards to each other using a christmas postal service, they put name and class on the envelope and in the week before Xmas I go around the classes at the start of the day distributing them.

Christmas Video

Currently I'm torn, between showing The Snowman or showing a Friends episode (one of the Xmas ones). Regardless I'll show it and have a few questions related to the video for them to answer.

Christmas Games

Just a load of fun activities for them to do, not given it much though yet as this is the last week before the big day.

Mini lessons (with smaller groups)

We're doing a few of these with my free classes I do after school

Advent calanders : Drawing out the back and making a second sheet stick on the front, trying to work out how to have candies added into the framework

Christmas video : Hundreds out there, I'll choose one I can get with subtitles.

Christmas cookies : Following a recipe entirely in English, perhaps using Demonicat's no bake cookie recipe

Christingles + the advent : For the religious peeps I think u'll know this it involves counting down the four weeks to Christmas, often seen on Blue Peter in the UK

Crackers : If I can find some bloody cracker snaps.

So thats what I'm doing, unless someone posts something better below!! Add your own ideas, the halloween thread in the same vein I found really useful.

[peppermint]

For advent calendars, you can get foam board that's sorta thick- cut holes in it for the candy. ( should manage to fit polos or something in that space).

Bogglesworld has lots of seasonal activites, and I noticed they've got candy canes at costco today ( tub of 300 for about 12,000)