All I Want for Christmas

The Christmas song we chose for this year was one that would be very familiar to the children, because it is always played on the radio at this time of year: All I Want for Christmas is You. First, the children colored in the tree. (For the youngest students, this is where the activity stopped.) […]

A Christmas Recipe (Poem)

The Fifth and Sixth Levels enjoyed learning a poem by the American poet Gay Dowling, called “A Christmas Recipe”. A Christmas Recipe We watched a slideshow presentation of the poem, with images for each line of the poem. The students took turns reading each line of the poem. They also received a poem handout (just […]