Christmas comes but once a year ...

[Peter Lambert]

...starting about mid-October!:confused:

[Peter Lambert]

BECTA offered these links for Christmas 2004 - they all still work!
Christmas Special – Year 1



Introduction

This is selection of websites with Christmas activities ranging from drag and drop nativity scenes to sending an email message to Santa.



Activity 1 – The Northpole website http://www.northpole.com (http://www.northpole.com/)

This American site is a rich source of Christmas activities.

There is a memory game (pelmanism): http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Concentration/Memory/ (http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Concentration/Memory/)

There are join the dot pictures to print and use off line:

http://www.northpole.com/Academy/Activities/DashPictures/DashPictures.pdf (http://www.northpole.com/Academy/Activities/DashPictures/DashPictures.pdf)

There are lots of stories to read and colour:

http://www.northpole.com/Workshop/# (http://www.northpole.com/Workshop/)



There is a Christmas tree to decorate and a snowman to build: http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/TrimTree/ (http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/TrimTree/)

http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/ (http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/)

It is possible to an email message to Santa – a reply will be received in a few days

http://www.northpole.com/mailroom/ (http://www.northpole.com/mailroom/)



Activity 2 - The Mouse Club

There are many games and activities at the Mouse Club at Christmas

www.themouseclub.co.uk (http://www.themouseclub.co.uk/)

Click on Kids and Go to Club.

Activities include stories, dressing a tree or building a snowman, card making, email letters to Santa an Advent Calendar and many more activities to print and do.



Activity 3 - Sequence a story

Santa’s Night – put the pictures in the right order

http://www.claus.com/elfschool/games_storyteller.shtml (http://www.claus.com/elfschool/games_storyteller.shtml)



Activity 4 - Arrange a nativity scene

There are drag and drop nativity scenes to construct at

http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/nativity.htm (http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/nativity.htm)

and

http://www.growley.com/nativity-small.html (http://www.growley.com/nativity-small.html)



Activity 5 – The Merry Christmas website

There are lots of Christmas games on the Merry Christmas website.

These include a jigsaw puzzle:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm# (http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm)

and a Santa Tic-Tac-Toe (noughts and crosses):

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm# (http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm)



Activity 6 - Sorting Games – The seven dwarfs/ Fairy stories

There are two Christmassy sorting games on the Naace primary website (Dwarfs and Fairy Stories). At this stage children should use the ‘play a game’ option – the children choose a dwarf or fairy story and the computer works out which they have chosen by asking questions which require a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm)



Activity 7 - Make a Festival alphabet

Children could use a word processing program to make an alphabetical list of words to do with Christmas or other winter festivals. An example may be found at:

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag75.html (http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag75.html)



Activity 8 – Christmas Paintings

Children can use a suitable painting program to create pictures of snowmen, stars, Christmas trees etc. Many of these can be created using basic shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) available from the polygon tools or stamps. Children will need to be shown how to flood fill. If the images are small they could be printed onto thin card and cut out to make gift tags or Christmas cards.

Some black and white Christmas clip art icons can be found at http://www.mape.org.uk/ChristmasCrackers/index.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/ChristmasCrackers/index.htm)

[Peter Lambert]

Many repeats from Year 1 but ...
Christmas Special – Year 2



Introduction

The Christmas special offers a selection of websites with Christmas activities ranging from drag and drop nativity scenes to sending an email message to Santa. There are also suggestions for other activities that are not web based, one of which uses a Word file (file supplied).



Activity 1 – The Northpole website http://www.northpole.com (http://www.northpole.com/)

This American site is a rich source of Christmas activities.



It is possible to an email message to Santa – a reply will be received in a few days.

http://www.northpole.com/mailroom/ (http://www.northpole.com/mailroom/)



Pupils can be characters in a Christmas story. They type in various details and a story is created with their name and other information included.

http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/ (http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/)



There are many other Christmas stories to read in the Workshop.

http://www.northpole.com/Workshop/# (http://www.northpole.com/Workshop/)

When children have read the story you could copy it into a word processor and delete the ending. Children could then write their own versions.



There is a Christmas tree to decorate and a snowman to build. http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/TrimTree/ (http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/TrimTree/)

http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/ (http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/)



Half completed drawings can be printed. These can be completed symmetrically using the grid provided.

http://www.northpole.com/Academy/Activities/DrawingGrid/DrawingGrid.pdf (http://www.northpole.com/Academy/Activities/DrawingGrid/DrawingGrid.pdf)



Christmas postcards can be emailed to friends and relatives from Santa’s mailroom. http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/Postcards/PCintro.html (http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/Postcards/PCintro.html)



Activity 2 - Arrange a nativity scene

There are drag and drop nativity scenes to construct at

http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/nativity.htm (http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/nativity.htm)

and

http://www.growley.com/nativity-small.html (http://www.growley.com/nativity-small.html)



Activity 3 – The Merry Christmas website

There are lots of Christmas games on the Merry Christmas website. http://www.merry-christmas.com (http://www.merry-christmas.com/)



These include a jigsaw puzzle:

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm# (http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm)



and a Santa Tic-Tac-Toe (noughts and crosses):

http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm# (http://www.merry-christmas.com/games/games.htm)



Activity 4 - Sorting Games – The seven dwarfs/ Fairy stories

There are two Christmassy sorting games on the Naace primary website (Dwarfs and Fairy Stories):

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm)



Activity 5 - Make a Festival alphabet

Children could use a word processing program to make an alphabetical list of words to do with Christmas or other winter festivals. An example may be found at:

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag75.html (http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag75.html)



Activity 6 - Turtle Post

Make your floor turtle look like Santa Claus. Draw a plan of a village with some houses. Give the houses numbers. Give Santa a sack with some letters and presents with house numbers on them. Ask children to program Santa to visit all the houses making sure Santa leaves the letters and presents at the right houses.



Activity 7 - Christmas Acrostic

Ask children to think of a suitable Christmas word. Get them to type the letters for the word into a word processor program using a new line for each letter, for example,

S

A

N

T

A

Children should now finish the acrostic poem by writing a line of poetry for each letter. They can then reformat the poem (for example, making the initial letter a different colour, style and size) and add some suitable clip art.



Activity 8 – A Christmas painting or gift tag

Children can use a suitable painting program to create pictures of snowmen, stars, Christmas trees etc. Many of these can be created using basic shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) available from the polygon tools. Children will need to be able to flood fill. If the images are small they could be printed onto thin card and cut out to make gift tags.



Activity 9 – A folding Christmas card

The attached Word file contains a template and instructions for making a folding Christmas card.



Activity 10 - A Christmas scene as a stained-glass window

Children can use Christmas clip art as the basis for a stained glass window painting. Load the clip art into a paint package and use flood fill to colour, dividing large areas of colour into smaller sections using a medium sized black brush.

Alternatively children could create a black and white stained-glass window for a friend to colour.

Some black and white Christmas clip art icons can be found at http://www.mape.org.uk/ (http://www.mape.org.uk/) see the Downloads section on the Classroom Activities page.

[Peter Lambert]

Christmas Special – Year 3



Introduction

The Christmas special offers a selection of websites and other Christmas activities ranging from word games to making Christmas cards, one of which uses a Word file (file supplied – X2). Some on-line sources of free Christmas clip art are included.



Activity 1 – Christmas wrapping paper

Children can create Christmas images with a paint package and either use the tiling facility (if it has one) or put the drawing into Textease and use the background tiling facility to produce Christmas wrapping paper (see attached file X1 for an example).



Activity 2 – Christmas Word Star game

This game is a bit like Hangman.

http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/WordStar/index.html?Christmas (http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/WordStar/index.html?Christmas)



Activity 3 – Create a personalised Christmas story

Children can create personalised stories by entering a few details about the names of friends, pets etc. These are then incorporated into a printable story.

http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/ (http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/)



Activity 4 - Retell the Christmas Story

Use the MAPE Big Book Maker to retell the story of Christmas for younger children.

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/BookMaker/bookmaker.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/BookMaker/bookmaker.htm)

Use a digital camera to take photographs of the class dressed for the Nativity play to illustrate the story. Children could read the story aloud and add this to the Big Book.



Activity 5 - Compose a Christmas jingle

Use a program such as Compose World Junior (ESP) to make a Christmas jingle. Choose different themes. Each theme should have different characteristics.

Angel music may be gentle and sweet.

Christmas disco music would be noisy and fast.

Children can listen to each other's music to see if they suit their theme.

Themes could include, The Christmas Tree, Sleighing, The Snowman, Silent Night, Santa’s Sleigh, or Angels.



Activity 6 - Christmas Acrostic

Ask children to think of a suitable Christmas word. Get them to type the letters for the word into a word processor program using a new line for each letter, for example,

S

A

N

T

A

Children should now finish the acrostic poem by writing a line of poetry for each letter. They can then reformat the poem (for example, making the initial letter a different colour, style and size) and add some suitable clip art.



Activity 7 - Sorting Game – The seven dwarfs

There are two Christmassy sorting games on the Naace primary website (Dwarfs and Fairy Stories):

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/sorting_games/index.htm)

Children can work in pairs to play the game and then make a game. This involves formulating questions.



Activity 8 – A Christmas painting or gift tag

Children can use a suitable painting program to create pictures of snowmen, stars, Christmas trees etc. Many of these can be created using basic shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) available from the polygon tools. Children will need to be able to flood fill. If the images are small they could be printed onto thin card and cut out to make gift tags.



Activity 9 – A folding Christmas card

The attached Word file contains a template and instructions for making a folding Christmas card.



Activity 10 - A Christmas scene as a stained-glass window

Children can use Christmas clip art as the basis for a stained glass window painting. Load the clip art into a paint package and use flood fill to colour, dividing large areas of colour into smaller sections using a medium sized black brush.

Alternatively children could create a black and white stained-glass window for a friend to colour.



Christmas Clip Art

Some black and white Christmas clip art icons can be found at http://www.mape.org.uk/ (http://www.mape.org.uk/) see the Downloads section on the Classroom Activities page.

Other Christmas clip art can be found at:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html)

[Peter Lambert]

Christmas Special – Year 4


Introduction

The Christmas special offers a selection of websites and other Christmas activities ranging from word games to making Christmas cards, one of which uses a Word file (file supplied). Some on-line sources of free Christmas clip art are included.


Activity 1 – Christmas Word Star game

This game is a bit like Hangman.

http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/WordStar/index.html?Christmas (http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/WordStar/index.html?Christmas)


Activity 2 – Create a personalised Christmas story

Children can create personalised stories by entering a few details about the names of friends, pets etc. These are then incorporated into a printable story.

http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/ (http://www.northpole.com/PersonalizedStories/)


Activity 3 - Retell the Christmas Story

Use the MAPE Big Book Maker to retell the story of Christmas for younger children.

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/BookMaker/bookmaker.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/BookMaker/bookmaker.htm)

Use a digital camera to take photographs of the class dressed for the Nativity play to illustrate the story. Children could read the story aloud and add this to the Big Book.


Activity 4 - Compose a Christmas jingle

Use a program such as Compose World Junior (ESP) to make a Christmas jingle. Choose different themes. Each theme should have different characteristics.

Angel music may be gentle and sweet.

Christmas disco music would be noisy and fast.

Children can listen to each other's music to see if they suit their theme.

Themes could include, The Christmas Tree, Sleighing, The Snowman, Silent Night, Santa’s Sleigh, or Angels.


Activity 5 - Christmas Acrostic

Ask children to think of a suitable Christmas word. Get them to type the letters for the word into a word processor program using a new line for each letter, for example,

S

A

N

T

A

Children should now finish the acrostic poem by writing a line of poetry for each letter. They can then reformat the poem (for example, making the initial letter a different colour, style and size) and add some suitable clip art.


Activity 6 -Turtle Post

Go to http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/)

Use the name of a street or post code to access a map of the area around the school.

Click on the “Large map” until the map shows the names of the streets.

Click on the “printer friendly” version from the File menu and print a copy of the map.

Mark the school and the house of some of the children on the printed map.

Copy the map onto acetate and stick this to the front of the monitor.

Children can then use a LOGO program pretending that the turtle is the postman delivering Christmas post. Can they program the turtle to deliver to all the houses marked on the map. Can they write a procedure to do it?


Activity 7 – A Christmas painting or gift tag

Children can use a suitable painting program to create pictures of snowmen, stars, Christmas trees etc. Many of these can be created using basic shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) available from the polygon tools. Children will need to be able to flood fill. If the images are small they could be printed onto thin card and cut out to make gift tags.


Activity 8 – A Victorian Christmas card

The attached Word file contains instructions for making a Victorian Christmas card. Victorian Christmas pictures can be found at:http://www.scrapalbum.com/xmashome.htm (http://www.scrapalbum.com/xmashome.htm)

Lots of information about Victorian Christmas can be found on the Dickens’ Christmas Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/christmas.html (http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/christmas.html)


Activity 9 - A Christmas scene as a stained-glass window

Children can use Christmas clip art as the basis for a stained glass window painting. Load the clip art into a paint package and use flood fill to colour, dividing large areas of colour into smaller sections using a medium sized black brush.

Alternatively children could create a black and white stained-glass window for a friend to colour.


Christmas Clip Art

Some black and white Christmas clip art icons can be found at http://www.mape.org.uk/ (http://www.mape.org.uk/) see the Downloads section on the Classroom Activities page.

Other Christmas clip art can be found at:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html)

[Peter Lambert]

Christmas Special – Year 5

Introduction

The Christmas special offers a selection of Christmas activities one of which uses a spreadsheet (file supplied). Some on-line sources of free Christmas clip art are included.

Activity 1 - The Twelve Days of Christmas (file supplied).

How many presents were given altogether during the 12 days of Christmas?

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. So a partridge in a pear tree was given every day. That means 12 were given altogether.

Ask children to use the spreadsheet supplied to find out how many presents were given. In row three they should enter the number of each type of gift given each day. The totals at the bottom of the columns give the total number of that gift given over the whole of Christmas.

Ask the children:

· to choose a suitable graph to display the results.

· How many presents were given each day? Do you recognise these numbers?

· What would happen if Christmas lasted for 13 days or even more? Can you edit the spreadsheet?

· What would happen if a different number or presents was given each day, for example 2 partridges, 4 turtle doves?

Activity 2 - A Victorian Christmas Quiz

Information about a Victorian Christmas can be found at:

http://www.scrapalbum.com/vxhome.htm (http://www.scrapalbum.com/vxhome.htm)

Children should use this site to research some questions for their peers.

Use the Quiz Maker on the Naace Primary site to create a Christmas quiz http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/QuizMaker/index.htm (http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/QuizMaker/index.htm)

To create the quiz:

· Select Quiz Maker 3.

· Give the quiz a title and type in some instructions for the solver

· Type in a question

· Type in 4 possible answers. (It is very important that the right answer comes first, answers are separated by commas and there are no spaces between answers.

· The quiz allows ten questions – to change use buttons at the bottom of the page.

· Write some last instructions, for example “Press finished to see your score.”

· Finally press “make quiz”. Try out the quiz, and if it works properly click on Save As from the File menu.

· Choose where to save the quiz, give it a suitable name and press OK.

Children can be challenged to solve each others quizzes.

Activity 3 - Spot the difference

Children can create spot the difference activities for one another or for younger children.

They should search on Google images for “reindeer”, for example, looking for one that has lots of things that can be changed.

Cartoon suitable for this activity may be found at the following sites:

http://www.jlf.com/reindeer.jpg (http://www.jlf.com/reindeer.jpg)

http://www.christmasorganizing.com/reindeer.jpg (http://www.christmasorganizing.com/reindeer.jpg)

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/graphics/reindeer.jpg (http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/graphics/reindeer.jpg)



After saving the image (right click and choose ‘save’) the children should open the image in a graphics program and save it with a slightly different filename (this is the picture that will be changed.)

Now children should decide which parts to alter (changes should not be too obvious), for example:

· Change the number of points on his antlers (or give him an extra antler)

· Give him glasses

· Change the colour of something

· Change the size of something

· Add some text

This might involve selecting and copying parts or the use different layers. Pictures should be saved frequently.

Now children can print out both pictures and challenge others to spot the differences.

Activity 4 - An interactive Advent Calendar

Children can work in groups or pairs to create an interactive Advent Calendar using a multimedia program, PowerPoint or Word.

First they should choose a suitable picture, for example

· A Christmas tree - Hang gifts from the tree and arrange others along the bottom. When you click on a present you find what is inside it. Present might include songs, video clips, recorded greetings or even hyperlinks links to websites with fun Christmas activities.

· Christmas cards on the mantelpiece- when you click on a card you find a Christmas greeting in a suitable font and colour. Perhaps it is a musical Christmas card – including a sound file of a Christmas carol or other song.

Suitable video clips may be found in the collection at http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm (http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm) (try searching on Christmas, for example).

Fun games for Christmas can be found at http://www.northpole.com (http://www.northpole.com/) or http://www.merry-christmas.com (http://www.merry-christmas.com/)

Christmas Clip Art

Some black and white Christmas clip art icons can be found at http://www.mape.org.uk/ (http://www.mape.org.uk/) see the Downloads section on the Classroom Activities page.

Other Christmas clip art can be found at:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html)

[Peter Lambert]

Christmas Special – Year 6

Introduction

The Christmas special offers a selection of Christmas activities using spreadsheets, control and multimedia. An Excel zip file is supplied. Some on-line sources of free Christmas clip art are included.

Activity 1 - The Twelve Days of Christmas

How many presents were given altogether during the 12 days of Christmas?

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. So a partridge in a pear tree was given every day. That means 12 were given altogether.

Ask children to create a spreadsheet to find out how many presents were given. It will probably look something like the top part of the spreadsheet provided for Activity 2 (below).

Ask the children:

· to choose a suitable graph to display the results.

· How many presents were given each day? Do you recognise these numbers?

· What would happen if Christmas lasted for 13 days or even more? Can you edit the spreadsheet?

· What would happen if a different number or presents was given each day, for example 2 partridges, 4 turtle doves?



Activity 2 - The 12 days of Christmas – inflating the cost (file supplied)

Explain to the children that “inflation” is the percentage change in the cost of living over a year.

The Excel file shows the cost of purchasing each of the gifts given during the 12 days of Christmas in 2001.

In 2002 the average annual rise in the cost of living was 2.8%. That means for every £100 spent at Christmas 2001 you would have to pay £102.80 in 2002.

Ask the children to use the spreadsheet to calculate the cost of Christmas presents in 2002.

During 2003 the cost of living rose by a similar amount. Can they calculate the cost of presents in 2003. Remind them that the 2.8% is an increase on the cost in 2002.

If inflation remains stable at 2.8% for the next two years, can they calculate the costs for 2004 and 2005.

The original data for this spreadsheet was provided by an American bank, and was naturally quoted in US dollars. Exchange rates vary from day to day. Ask the children to use the currency exchange rate at

http://www.x-rates.com/ (http://www.x-rates.com/) and the spreadsheet to convert back from £ to $.



Activity 3 – Control at Christmas

If you're working on Control at school at this time of the year then what better thing to do than control a set of Christmas tree lights?

Challenges could include:

· write a simple program to make the lights come on and off in a sequence

· make lights of different colours using see-through coloured sweet papers

· add sounds to the program

· program an input command to make the lights come on when it gets dark or when someone treads on a pressure sensor mat.

Activity 4 - An interactive Advent Calendar

Children can work in groups or pairs to create an interactive Advent Calendar using a multimedia program, PowerPoint or Word.

First they should choose a suitable picture, for example

· A Christmas tree - Hang gifts from the tree and arrange others along the bottom. When you click on a present you find what is inside it. Present might include songs, video clips, recorded greetings or even hyperlinks links to websites with fun Christmas activities.

· Christmas cards on the mantelpiece- when you click on a card you find a Christmas greeting in a suitable font and colour. Perhaps it is a musical Christmas card – including a sound file of a Christmas carol or other song.



Suitable video clips may be found in the collection at http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm (http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm) (search on Christmas, for example).

Fun games for Christmas can be found at http://www.northpole.com (http://www.northpole.com/) or http://www.merry-christmas.com (http://www.merry-christmas.com/)



Activity 5 – Advent Calendar Research

Information about the history of advent calendars can be found at:

http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm (http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm)



Tate the cat has some super advent calendars at

http://www.advent-calendars.com/index.html (http://www.advent-calendars.com/index.html)

Children can see those from previous years and access this year’s from the first of December. Different language versions are available allowing children to see the unusual words and realise what a foreign language is. They could look on a map to see where they speak the various languages.



Woodlands School has it’s own Online Interactive World Advent Calendar with a test of Christmas knowledge

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/ (http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/)

This will not be active until December 1st.


Homeschooling has an advent calendar with colouring pages, recipes, games, all sorts. - http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/advent125.htm (http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/advent125.htm)




The Christmas Treasury Advent Calendar can be printed and stuck to make a traditional paper advent calendar. http://www.janbrett.com/christmas_treasury_advent_calendar.htm (http://www.janbrett.com/christmas_treasury_advent_calendar.htm)



BBC Advent offers music poetry or a bible reading for every day of advent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/advent/calendar/index.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/advent/calendar/index.shtml)

This is probably more suitable for teachers, but an excellent resource bank for Christmas. Could provide some good ideas. Alternatively could just be a source of tranquillity.


DLTK’s Crafts for kids offers mountains of ideas –

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/advent.html (http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/advent.html)



Christmas Clip Art
Christmas clip art can be found at:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html)

[leviosa]

Never mind Year 1 and 2 the games are great I would use those as fun activities with my Secondary classes in the last couple of weeks of term. You know the sort of thing - answer a question or two right about what we learnt today and you can have a paly on the game! Instant hit plenaries.

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[Westlake]

And for New Zealand Forum members - our very own "Pukeko in a Ponga Tree" at http://folksong.org.nz/nzchristmas/pukeko.html with the story of Kingi Ihaka. Also Te Harinui and other Antipodean carols.

Thanks Pete for all those Christmas resources. Have you aired the Santa suit ready for the Big Day next month?
Hilary