Hello, 5B families!
We hope you enjoy the performances below and some details on our latest learning activities!
An optional activity I presented to students today was to make a construction paper box (see above for the tutorial we created in class) and to fill it with fun and creative Christmas-themed questions. If your child made one of these question games, you could use it to spark great family discussion and creativity.
It’s possible your child was still hard at work on his/her nativity scene construction today and didn’t get a chance to make the game; so here are the questions below to use as you like. An idea to jazz things up and create a longer lasting game is to write out the questions on craft sticks.
- If you had to name your child after a reindeer, which one would it be?
- What baked goods do you love to eat around Christmas time?
- What dish do you hope to see at Christmas dinner?
- If you had to name the new 10th reindeer, what would it be?
- Imagine you are a chef at a burger restaurant and you need to come up with a new burger for the menu called “The Christmas Burger”. Describe it! What makes it so “Christmasy”?
- What do you think would be a really thoughtful Christmas gift?
- What is a fun festive activity for a Saturday afternoon in December?
- What is one of your favorite Christmas smells and why?
- What is one of your special Christmas memories?
- What is the best way to spend Boxing Day?
- What is the best Christmas drink?
- What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
- What is your least favorite holiday side dish?
- What is a memorable Christmas gift you have received?
- What is the most annoying Christmas song?
- What item would make a really silly or strange Christmas ornament?
- If Santa gave you $100,000, what would you buy with it?
- If you could travel anywhere in the world for Christmas, where would you go and why?
- If you got a yacht for Christmas, what would you name it and where would you take it?
- If you had to make tree ornaments from just one type of item, which would you choose?
- If you had to decorate a Christmas tree using only things that symbolize the events of this last year, what would be on it?
- Invent a new Christmas-themed breakfast cereal.
- What ingredients would be in it?
- Is there any Christmas gift you definitely don’t want?
- Name a store you’d love to get a present from.
- Challenge: name five foods that are green and five foods that are red.
- Sing the first lines of the first Christmas song you can think of.
- What would you love to see dress up as Santa Claus? Why?
- Fill in the blank: Christmas isn’t Christmas without _______.
- What is a favourite Christmas memory you can share?
- What is a fun new Christmas tradition you might like to start?
- What is the silliest or strangest thing you have seen or heard of being done by an “elf on the shelf”?
- What role do you believe Mrs. Claus plays in Christmas?
- What makes a nice Christmas morning breakfast?
- List three things you remember receiving in a Christmas stocking?
- What are three things you would like to see in your own Christmas stocking?
- Imagine you are getting a new puppy or kitten for Christmas? What would you name it?
- Whose singing voice just “sounds like Christmas” to you?
- Who in you family does most of the dishes after Christmas dinner—or how does the clean up work get done?
- Name a Christmas movie you have seen or heard of?
- What is your favourite Christmas song?
Tiffany Poirier 