Festivals and Celebrations: An Advent Calendar

Festivals and Celebrations: An Advent Calendar
Worksheet
A
Completing an Advent calendar with drawings and words.
Making Christmas decorations.
Decorating a Christmas tree and/or the classroom.
Vocabulary and grammatical Words related to Advent calendars.
Numerals (1st to 24th).
structures
Giving the date
An individual Advent calendar to be completed.
Material
A Christmas tree.
A copy of worksheet B for each child. CD.
Activities
Procedure
Saying the date should have become a routine by now.
1. Before the end of November, buy an Advent calendar. (Cheap ones are available in supermarkets.)
2. Give the children small squares of paper and ask them to write their names on them and fold them in
four. Put them in a basket.
3. Find out who in the class knows what an Advent calendar is. If necessary explain what it is and show
them the one you have bought.
4. Every day from December 1st onwards, ask one of the children to pick a name from the basket. They
should read the name (It’s so and so).
5. Ask the selected child to come and open the window corresponding to the day’s date in the calendar
you have bought.
6. Then ask him/her to say what the object is (in French or in English).
7. If nobody knows the word in English, say it yourself.
8. Make the children repeat the new word, then draw the object in the appropriate box on their
worksheets and write its name. Ask them to colour their drawings.
9. As you don’t meet the children every day, you won’t be able to have them open a window daily.
You can:
• Ask their teacher to do it for you. When you see the children again, ask them:
What was the object for December…?/yesterday?/the day before yesterday?
• Or let them open in advance the days when you won’t be there and ask them:
What’s the object for December…?/tomorrow?/the day after tomorrow?
Follow-up activities
At this time of the year, you can create a festive atmosphere by having the class decorate a Christmas tree
and/or the classroom. You can ask the children to bring Christmas decorations, or make their own if there
is time.
Teach the children a Christmas song.
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,(2)
And a happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring,
To you and your kin,
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.
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