Delight your students with our large range of fun and age-appropriate Christmas activities this year! This magical Christmas bundle contains over 175 pages of goodies for your students to enjoy.
THIS SPECIAL BUNDLE INCLUDES:
- Christmas Booklet featuring TAS Beginners Font
- Print and Play Games: Christmas Edition
- Storytelling Fun: Christmas Edition
- Pattern Block Mats: Christmas Theme
- Bonus PDF: Christmas Word Wall Cards
1. CHRISTMAS BOOKLET FEATURING TAS BEGINNERS FONT
This beautiful resource helps you to create a custom-made class booklet for the final weeks of school. Select from a variety of educational and engaging activities to create a booklet that best suits the needs and interests of your students. Featuring TAS Beginners Font.
Simply select a booklet cover, choose your activities, print, compile and photocopy your class booklets!
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
– A choice of 8 booklet covers
– Christmas ‘I Spy’ Game
– Beginning Blends
– Mystery Numbers
– Adjective Fun
– Merry Maze
– Colour and Label Santa
– I Can Count
– Christmas Lights
– Read and Draw
– Code Cracker
– Jigsaw Puzzle
– Hidden Words
– Penguin Puzzle
– Celebrating our Writing
– Sweet Treats Addition
– Sweet Treats Subtraction
– Word Families
– Find the Matching Pair
– My 3 Christmas Wishes
– Rudolph’s Tangled Message
– Colour by Number
– Spot the Difference
– Snowball Scramble
– Belly Buttons
– Christmas Snooper
– Hide and Seek
– Missing Letters
– Connect the Dots
– Elf Name Generator
– My Summer Holidays
– Summer Survey
– Tic Tac Toe Tournament
– Frosty’s Jolly Jokes
– A Letter for Santa
– Beautiful Bookmarks
– Gift Tags
– Door Hanger
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS INCLUDE:
- Reading and comprehension
- Writing
- Beginning blends
- CVC words
- Word families
- Asking questions
- Adjectives
- Labelling
- Number sense (what number comes before/after/between)
- Recognising numbers
- Counting
- Skip counting
- Graphing
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Handwriting
- Fine motor control
- Problem-solving
- Persistence
- Hand-eye coordination
- Visual attention
- Visual-motor integration
- Following instructions
- Codebreaking
- Critical thinking
2. PRINT AND PLAY GAMES: CHRISTMAS EDITION
Let’s play! This pack contains 6 beautifully designed Christmas games for Foundation – Year 2 students. These games have been thoughtfully created to help develop students’ critical thinking, numeracy and social skills. Each game is simple and fun to play, and a wonderful addition to your hands-on learning resource collection. Your class will love playing these games with their friends during maths rotations, ‘Early Finisher’ time and inside play.
THIS PACK CONTAINS:
Game 1: Chimney Chase
Chase Santa up and down the chimneys! Start at the fireplace, follow the numbers on the board and be the first player to reach the FINISH square!
Game 2: Memory Match Up
Test your memory and observation skills to match the most pairs of Christmas cards to win the game!
Game 3: Tic Tac Toe
Tic Tac Toe, let’s play in the snow! The first player to get 3 squares in a row is the winner!
Game 4: Santa’s Toy Shop
Choose teddies or beach balls and make 4 in a row! Place your toys on the shelves (up, down, across or diagonally) to make 4 in a row and be the winner!
Game 5: Sweet Treats Bingo
It’s time for a sweet game of Bingo! We love this game of chance. Find the numbers, fill your squares and be the first player to call BINGO!
Game 6: Christmas Gift Store
The Christmas Gift Store is open! Roll the dice and add the numbers together to purchase magical Christmas snow globes! The player who buys the most wins!
3. STORYTELLING FUN: CHRISTMAS EDITION
Ignite your students’ imaginations and develop their oral language and writing skills with these fun and creative Christmas storytelling activities. Perfect for the early years of school.
THIS RESOURCE FEATURES TWO SECTIONS:
1. Let’s TELL a story!
Share the joy of storytime with a beautiful open-ended activity that will excite and inspire the visual learners and storytellers in your classroom.
Children will choose their own characters and setting to create their own narrative. Spark your students’ imaginations, develop their language skills and engage them through hands-on learning! With so many combinations, the storylines are sure to be entertaining!
2. Let’s WRITE a story!
Let their imaginations run wild!
From magical to outrageous storylines, this activity will explore the limitless possibilities of your students’ imaginations. Invite them to select a character, setting and/or special object and write a story using these elements on the beautiful story writing paper provided.
These fun and creative writing prompts will ignite their imagination and nurture their passion for story writing.
4. PATTERN BLOCK MATS: CHRISTMAS THEME
This hands-on activity pack contains 24 Pattern Block Mats with a Christmas theme. 3 levels of difficulty have been included for each Christmas puzzle to best suit the needs, interests and skills of your students.
Children love exploring mathematical concepts through hands-on play. These mats are perfect for engaging small groups during maths rotations. They are an ideal ‘Early Bird Finisher’ activity and a wonderful addition to your maths area.
Pattern block activities allow children to explore mathematical concepts including:
- Shapes
- Patterns
- Colours
- Fractions
- Symmetry
- Equivalence
- Measurement
- Angles
Pattern block mats also promote:
- Spatial Visualisation
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
Christmas mats included in this pack:
- Santa
- Christmas ornament
- Reindeer
- Christmas tree
- Snowflake
- Santa hat
- Holly berries
- Jingle bell
***These mats have been designed to be used with pattern blocks. Classroom sets of pattern blocks can be purchased from a large range of educational stores.***
5. BONUS PDF: CHRISTMAS WORD WALL CARDS
24 beautifully illustrated word wall cards to encourage writing in your classroom. 5 Australian fonts included: QLD Beginners, SA Beginners, TAS Beginners, NSW Foundation and VIC Precursive.
Your students will love engaging with these festive activities. You may even wish to play some Christmas music in the background to make their lessons even more magical!
Please note: The PDFs in this bundle have been designed for A4 PAPER PRINTING and feature AUSTRALIAN / UK SPELLING. The Christmas Booklet features TAS BEGINNERS FONT. This resource is a PAID DIGITAL DOWNLOAD available in our TPT store.
