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created by Nicola Flanagan

Lower Primary

Middle Primary

Upper Primary

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Ms Flanagan's integrated ICT activities and ideas 

Lower Primary Activities

Make a gingerbread house

Sliding Tiles

Beat Rudolph at TicTacToe

Dress the Christmas Elves

 

Lots of other great online activities

 

Drag and drop to make a nativity scene

Nutcracker Game

Build a snowman

Create your own Christmas Story

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Ms Flanagan's integrated ICT activities and ideas.

Middle Primary Activities

Good Sites:

The North Pole

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Christmas Around the World

More stories of how Christmas is celebrated all over the world.

Read a Christmas Story

Christmas Carols - Some you can sing along with!

Activities:

Try this Treasure Hunt

Send an email to Santa

A Christmas WebQuest

Educational Fun:

A Word Find

A Biblical Word Find

A range of different games

Listen to some stories

Unscramble the blocks to make Christmas words

Santa's Number Jump

Nutcracker Game - a spelling game
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Ms Flanagan's integrated ICT activities and ideas.

Upper Primary Activities

Good Sites:

Graceville's Xmas Site

More stories of how Christmas is celebrated all over the world.

Activities:

An Internet Treasure Hunt on Christmas

An Internet Sampler on Christmas.

A Christmas WebQuest - Investigate symbols

Take a Christmas quiz to test how much you know about Christmas 

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Junior Primary
 

Working with the Internet and Word.

Read this story:  Koala Trouble.  Copy your favourite picture by right-clicking on it and choosing "copy".  Then open a Word document and paste it in.  Can you label the characters and items in the picture?  You can use text boxes to do this.

Working with Paint:

Can you create a picture of your family on Christmas morning in Paint? 

Working with KidPix:

Create a 5 slide KidPix show on Christmas.  On your first slide write a letter to Father Christmas asking him for a present.  On the second slide design a present for your mum.  On the third slide draw a picture of your family on Christmas morning.  Then on the final slide draw a picture of your Christmas dinner. 

You might like to even use a photo of yourself and turn yourself into Father Christmas!

Working with Kidspiration:

Working in Kidspiration, create a mind map showing the traditions and customs your family associate with Christmas. As a guide, there could be a section on Christmas morning, Christmas Dinner, Christmas Eve etc.

 

Middle Primary 
 

Working with Inspiration:

Using Inspiration, create a concept map which shows 6 different countries and what Christmas means to them. Include photos from the Internet that you copy and paste.  There are lots of links above to help you complete this.

On the sections about Australia - maybe use some photos from your own family collections.
 
 

Working with ArtRage - (freeware)

Create some pieces of original art that you can use for many of the above activities.  Use tracing paper images to help you if you want to.  Export them and save as jpg images in a folder you can get to. Consider putting them in shared folder so your classmates can use them too.

Working with PowerPoint:

Read this poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas".  Copy and paste each verse into Powerpoint.  Use a slide per verse.  Change each verse so that it contains members of your family and so that it is about your family. Insert appropriate pictures.   Animate the pictures appropriately.

Working with ComicLife (mac program)

Use images that you have created yourself using ArtRage or a painting program to show a story of Santa arriving in a house and having trouble with over tired reindeers on the roof.
 

Working with think.com (web based learning tool)

Create a page on Christmas.  Include articles on how you celebrate Xmas at your house.  Include some participation activities in which you get others to respond to votes, brainstorms and debates.  Think about including items on how other cultures celebrate Christmas.  Include also some original artwork.

Design a page with the focus on sharing ways different children in your class celebrate Christmas. You might be surprised at the comparisons and differences!
Upper Primary 

Working across applications:

Use your internet search skills to find a Christmas poem that you have never read or hear before. Copy and paste the text into Word.  Try replacing words throughout this poem to create your own version. Add illustrations that you have created yourself (use ArtRage), a WordArt heading and a BorderArt border.  Print for display in your room.

Create vouchers to give as gifts at Christmas time. Work in Word and any other program you find useful.  Original art is best so think about creating in ArtRage or Paint.     Limit the amount of typing that you have to do by using the copy and paste functions as much as you can.

Design a good logo to advertise a Christmas shop which specialises in Australian Christmas items.  Use a combination of shapes, pictures and words to create this logo. Don't forget to group all the items.  Use whatever programs you find useful.

Read the InnKeeper's Tale - a Christmas poem from the perspective of the Inn Keeper.  Create 5 questions to ask if you were going to test someone's comprehension of this story and type these in Word.   Open Puzzlemaker and create a puzzle to go with this story.

Challenge: Try writing a similar poem but from the perspective of Rachel, his wife, or from the perspective of one of his children. 

Use whatever applications you think appropriate for this task.  Use a map of the world.  Mark a possible route that Father Christmas might take to get to all the places he has to.  Can you add pictures that represent something to do with the different countries and the way the celebrate Christmas?  Finish appropriately by using headings, borders and colour.

Design a Christmas the way you would like it to be. Use whatever applications and research sources you need to use.  Choose whatever application you wish to use to present your ideas.

Working with Publisher

Create a Christmas Card in Publisher, using some of the clipart which are linked to at the top of this page.
 

Working with ComicLife (mac program)

Use images that you have created yourself using ArtRage or a painting program to show a story of Santa arriving in a house and having trouble with over tired reindeers on the roof.
 

Working with Inspiration:

Using Inspiration, create a concept map which shows 6 different countries and what Christmas means to them. Include photos from the Internet that you copy and paste.  There are lots of links above to help you complete this.

On the sections about Australia - maybe use some photos from your own family collections.
 

Working with think.com (web based learning tool)

Create a page on Christmas.  Include articles on how you celebrate Xmas at your house.  Include some participation activities in which you get others to respond to votes, brainstorms and debates.  Think about including items on how other cultures celebrate Christmas.  Include also some original artwork.

Design a page with the focus on sharing ways different children in your class celebrate Christmas. You might be surprised at the comparisons and differences!

Working with Powerpoint:

Create an 'Information Kiosk".  This is a Powerpoint slideshow designed to show different Christmas customs throughout the world.  Use action buttons linked to a map on slide 1 to enable the Powerpoint user to jump to the different countries to read about their customs.

Teacher Sites 
The Teacher's Corner - a collections of sites 

Curriculum Exchange's TIPS on Christmas

Christmas Games

Christmas Math's Pages

All I want for Christmas

Christmas Project Ideas

Christmas Printables

The Innkeeper's Tale

I am the innkeeper who keeps
the smallest inn in Bethlehem.
No more room, no more room!
All I can offer is the gloom
of a simple stable in Bethlehem.

This census is all very well,
but what am I supposed to say
when every house in town is full,
and I have to turn such folks away?

A pregnant girl, an anxious man,
a footsore donkey, tired and quiet:
I've got to help, though no-one can,
for surely her child will be born tonight!

The donkey showed me what to do,
as into the stable she made her way;
"Here is a sheltering place for you,
it's warm, and there's a manger with hay."

I am the innkeeper who keeps
the smallest inn in Bethlehem.
No more room, no more room!
All I can offer is the gloom
of a simple stable in Bethlehem.