Christmas | The Night Before Christmas| Classic Poem | BUNDLE | NSW PreCursive

SMART RESOURCE | The poster-charts illustrate silent letters in Christmas theme words. Words with silent letters are also highlighted in the Christmas song Jingle Bells.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Students respond to the classic poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’. The poem is connected across the curriculum Learning Areas: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Inquiry, Handwriting, and Visual Language. The resource and teacher ideas include response by reading and drawing, close activity, viewing video, responding to modern and vintage images, using a graphic organiser to express similarities and differences, and writing a character description of Santa Claus as illustrated in the classic poem. The resource guides the student to explore classic poetic literature through Christmas.

SMART RESOURCE | A collection of six Christmas songs to sing, enjoy, research, analyse and perform.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | The set of Christmas colouring pages included a selection of pages with and without Christmas greetings. The colouring of the Christmas pages as a mindfulness tool is a way of improving a student’s physical and mental well-being. It is a relaxing activity to help calm down and refocus through self-expression and creativity. The pages are also a valuable resource for Visual Language, Writing prompts, Christmas vocabulary list, and designing Christmas cards.