If Thanksgiving isn’t your cup of tea, maybe a few killer Christmas ideas would be?
Here are the Top Ten Christmas Ideas from last year, and I’m sure there’ll be more this year so stay tuned!
Original “Genki Christmas” song: Christmas Words Worksheets, cards, etc.- From Austria: Gingerbread House Christmas Play
- Uno Style Christmas Prepositions Game ( from Zurich)
- Body Parts with Let’s build a Snowman!
- More Christmas Crosswords & Wordsearches! |
- Colors / Colours with What colour is Christmas?
- Christmas Party Games
- Prepositions (under, on, in etc) with Where are the Christmas Presents?
- Flossy’s Christmas Printable Games
- Family Members – “Christmas Time” Extensive Listening
- What would you like for Christmas?
- Winter Clothes
What Christmas songs & games are you planning for this year?
Well, this year it’s up to CD10!!!
I’m teaching the house topic now, will go over to the Ginger bread house topic after that, and make a mini gingerbread house with all of my classes beginning of December.
Depending on levels I’ll go through most of the GE topics, and in the Christmas week we’ll celebrate with cookies and hot drinks, making a “rose window” as Christmas present for mums and dads.
I’m thinking to take my JH kids out to a big church to show them a real rose window, and maybe to the German Christmas market held in Osaka to get some real Gingerbread!
Looking forward to this creative cozy time of year.
Wow Margit! As always I am amazed at your energy. A gingerbread house for ALL your classes? Making gifts for their mothers? (What’s a rose window?) I am lucky if I can get some snacks and a few games to celebrate the various holidays. I guess I’d better get thinking about Christmas….
gumby,
look at this link:http://asakotherapy.blog83.fc2.com/blog-entry-15.html
It’s beautiful and so easy to make. I just learned about this technique this week, and I also didn’t know it was called “rose window”, though we learn many similar techniques of imitating church windows in Germany.
Making gingerbread houses is something I have each of my students do every year, but this year it will be complete with the wonderful song here! This is also much easier than you would guess. I’ll take a video !
The German Christmas market is really original and nothing tacky. So I’d like to go for some real German hot wine and beer, BUT it is incredibly expensive~~~Well, I can hear Richard whisper: “Would it be cheaper to go to Germany?”
I was actually thinking “but thanks to the high yen, Beaujolais Nouveau is only 500 yen though!” …. 🙂
My children like looking for toys that I’ve hidden in the classroom. It’s a bit like looking for presents. They have to name the toys they find. Afterwards I put one toy in a stocking and they have to guess which one it is.
Also nice is to make a 3D snowman or tree: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/3d_christmas_snowman_and_tree.htm
Thanks for the link to the 3D tree and snowman. Great for my younger kids lessons!!! I also thought about making gingerbread men or houses, but kinda gave up because I thought making 20+ might not be viable for me. You make all of the gingerbread houses for your students Margit. Thats pretty awesome!!!
We completed the Genki English xmas exercises and are now focusing on art and songs. We’ve been learning some extra xmas songs like jingle bells. We made some paper snowflakes (great exercise to practice shapes: cut a square, fold to make a triangle etc) to decorate the windows and next week we will video the kids singing (with their decorations at the back) and place on a private video link for their parents. The kids also made “non cook” clay items (snowmen, pendants etc) which we will paint next week and offer as a gift to parents.