Celebrating Christmas in the Classroom – The twelve days of Christmas Poem Update
In 2018 I wrote a post about using the Twelve Days of Christmas poem as a teaching tool in the classroom. This post was incredibly popular on Pinterest, and I think that is because of the picture I slurped about the perceived Christian meanings / representations of the gifts mentioned. As we are two years on I decided it was time for a poem post update!
I love that so many people are engaging with that angle, and it made me study the poem too. Although the conclusions I came to when I studied it were
“wow there are so many ways to use this in the classroom that I hadn’t even realised!”
And the English 12 days of Christmas bundle on my TpT store was born.
So what?
Well this bundle has 8 Literacy themed lessons ready for you to use in the difficult – it’s almost Christmas but not quite and we are all tired and still teaching and I need you to still be engaged so behaviour doesn’t go wild – time of year.
One is the actual poem written out – why don’t you have a sing along in class? One way we used to use the song at a school I taught in was that when your birthday month was used you had to stand so January was 1st, February was 2nd, March 3rd etc… I find it awkward, but the kids always love the bobbing up and down – so who am I to stop it?
Another resource in this bundle is to make a modern version of the poem. I included a model text too, so that all the thinking and original ideas can come from the kids – you don’t have to do a thing! Likewise, there is a model text included in the thank you letter writing activity I’m sure the kiddos will come up with something awesome – don’t they always? But, for this resource there is also a guide to the grammatical features I have included too so that you can model them, showing them in a context to encourage their independent use.
A full list of the bundle contents is:
- The poem
- Spot the Expanded Noun Phrase (ENP) – includes answers.
- Write a thank you letter (with publishing paper and model text)
- Write a poem update of the 12 days of Christmas (with publishing paper and model text)
- Picture word match
- Odd one out reading and reasoning activity
- Key word wordsearches
- True or False reading activity.
Eight differentiated literacy activities ready and waiting for you.
The best bit?
You can get them right now, download and use immediately for a tiny $6.80. (As 3.12.20 that is £5.05). For a week of Christmas themed activities ready to rock and roll!
Not interested in buying all 8? Each activity is also available individually for $1 (80p) too!
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