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Christmas presentation + coloring sheet

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ES 1
ES 2
ES 3
ES 4
ES 5
ES 6
JHS 1
JHS 2
JHS 3
Type of Activity: 
main
Main Skill(s): 
Reading
Listening
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Goal of the Activity: 
Kids learn about Christmas in the west
Length of Activity (minutes): 
50
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Sharing my Christmas activity!
I do this for all of my Elementary classes and Special needs classes, and sometimes for JHS just depends on the class.

I have a powerpoint explaining Christmas in the west, specifically America feel free to edit. I also include slides about tamales cause that's my Christmas tradition, you can edit and put your own familie's one. The Slides are mostly just pictures and I try to explain with gestures and basic English, sometimes the JTE/homeroom teacher helps explain... sometimes they don't but usually the kids get the gist of it. For the naughty or nice list slide I tell them "good kids get presents", then I gesture putting a present on a kids desk in front of me. "And bad kids get... no presents" and I pick a kid to make an X gesture in front of them. Whatever works for you!

Then after the presentation I hand out a coloring worksheet I made. For special needs I usually give them colored paper to make Christmas cards, they can cut the coloring sheet and use it for the front of the card.
For elementary I've had some teachers offer to print and cut the worksheet into 4 pieces before hand, and the kids can just come up and continuously grab them to color. The kids like that way as well, I had one kid with 4 Christmas trees. This is also nice because on occasion some students will color the whole sheet really fast then just sit there, so this way they can just keep coloring.
And I try to find a Christmas song playlist to play while they color!

And that's it!

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