Christmas Presentation

Merry Christmas!

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Let's learn about Christmas in the schools. Click on the presents and sleigh to see how students celebrate.

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Come with me as we learn about Christmas in the United States!

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Click on the Presents to see what Christmas is like in American homes!

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How Americans get into the Christmas Spirit

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Citations:https://www.youtube.com/watch?=P988o0J0Xw4&ab_channel=HolidayLightProductions https://wordwall.net/resource/66689479/copy-of-christmas-activity https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/complete-christmas-menu-classic Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Looking at the lights around the neighborhood

• Families decorate their homes
• Some families use over 1000+ lights
• Some families like to do things like this

Winter Games

Christmas Festivities

• Celebrated on Dec. 25th
• Festivities start days before hand with visits from Santa Claus
• Kids wake up early on Christmas morning
• For American kids, they recieve the most presents on Christmas day itself.
• Kids are visited by Santa's elfs to make sure the kids end up on the nice list.

HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

Gingerbread House Decorating

• Classes often compete in gingerbread house decorating contests
• They build a house and decorate it with lots of candies

Questions

1. In what other activities organized by your school have you participated as a language assistant?
1. My school celebrates the holidays in a big way. During Halloween, I was made a part of the Halloween haunted house as someone to scare the kids. Each grade level would come through the haunted house to get scared and have a little Halloween fun. Additionally, I set up a "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Puppet Show for the infantil and first and second grade students during the Christmas holidays week. Finally, I was made to help set up for the Christmas day Performance and help with recording and picture taking for the school.
2. What exactly did your collaboration as an assistant in the implementation of these extracurricular activities consist of?
1. The majority of the work was through setting up the festivities. There would occasionally be times where I would have to play a role but when that would be part of my job, I would make sure that the students are hearing more english from me so that they are still practicing their english in every context, not just within the classroom.
3. How will your proposal respond to different learning styles and different levels of achievement among students?
1. This proposal aims to have students interact and share their thoughts on how they celebrate Christmas. Students with lower learning styles are able to react and understand the multimedia aspects. Additionally, students will have lots of feedback through call and response so they start to feel comfortable with the vocabulary even if they may not understand all the content. Additionally, I will use the students who are more adept at english to support their fellow classmates by explaining content to each other when needed thereby reinforcing both party's english abilities.

• After celebrating with family in the morning, friends and family gather for a big dinner at night

Christmas Morning

• Whole family gathers around the tree
• Pick a gift with their name and open in order

Christmas Night Family Dinner

Winter Party on Last Day

• Last day of the term, there is a party in primary school
• Play games
• Make ornaments
• Eat food

Questions

1. What is your role as a LA?
1. My role as a LA is to help students get used to hearing a typical american accent and educate the students on my home culture. The main objective is to have them understand when someone speaks to them in english they have learned.
2. How are you and the teacher working to complement each other?
1. The teacher serves as the primary teacher always and usually leads the lessons. While the lesson is being taught, the teacher will often turn to me to say important vocabulary so the students hear and learn the correct pronounciation. Additionally, after the lesson, I will walk around and talk with the students while they work so they are used to having conversations. I will also occasionally lead parts of the lesson so students are used to hearing familiar english in daily life.
3. What activities are the students going to do?
1. For this presentation, students will be making a Christmas ornament. This is a key vocabulary word in the lesson as well as a tradition in many US schools as a way students celebrate the upcoming holiday vacation. The ornament is an origami snowflake that is tied with string to hang on their Christmas tree.

Homemade Ornaments

• Every year, students make an ornament to take home
• Sometimes they include our faces
• You can hang it up in school or at home

Building a Snowman

• When it snows enough, kids and will go out and build snowmen
• Dress them up with scarfs, carrots, stones, and branches

Christmas food

• Lots of desserts
• Marshmallow cookies (S'mores)
• Apple Pie
• Banana Bread
• Sugar cookie decorating
• Hot Chocolate
• Apple Cider
• Candy Cane

Goals of the Project

1. Describe why your Final Assignment is useful or original for your students.
1. Given that the students are at a very beginner basic level of Spanish, they tend to be most interested about learning about other communities in the world based on the questions I am often asked. For this reason, I thought that teaching some vocabulary words through the use of a cultural presentation would be the most beneficial. Students are able to draw similarities and difference between their community and other communities very easily. By comparing their lives to the lives of US kids, they will also be forced to remember some vocabulary more as they wish to describe the differences. Many of these students have never seen what an American Christmas looks like according to the teachers and thus the teachers also found that implementing this topic in older classes too would be beneficial in the school.
2. Describe how the teaching materials and practices presented in your assignment effectively foster learning and how they might be adaptable to other contexts, such as different age levels or subject areas.
1. The information is presented in an interactive manner and goes very in-depth with the content. Since not all the content follows a specific pattern, it is easy to tailor the presentation to different levels of class. Younger kids may get through the lesson quicker as they will not understand everything where as older kids can engage in discussions about the content. Additionally, many of the resources provided were meant to serve as an introduction to American traditions. This could serve as the start of a series that compares american traditions to Spanish traditions as each holiday is celebrated in a big way in my specific school so students would be very receptive to more of this content as they also emphasize celebrating their own holidays around their community.

Elf

Home Alone

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Movie about an elf that comes to the US for the first time after never fitting in at home in the North Pole

A kid gets left home alone during the holidays as burglars try to rob his home.

About a Grinch who hates Christmas and tries everything possible to steal Christmas

Decorating the Christmas Tree

• Decorating the tree with homemade ornaments
• Usually done on the day after Thanksgiving

Hanging Stockings on the Fireplace

• Everyone gets a stocking to stuff with small gifts
• Opened after gifts on Christmas morning

Game Time

Always leave cookies for Santa

• Santa works the whole night on Christmas Eve
• We always leave out milk and cookies to give him energy
• Sometime we leave crackers out for the elves

1. What is the timing for your lesson?
1. The timing of the lesson depends on how well the students understand the subject matter. If the students appear to be overwhelmed, the content will be cut short and time will be more spent doing the activities and playing games.Currently, the lesson is proposed to take about 40 minutes with 20 minutes spent playing games and doing an ornament activity.
2. What is the teacher’s role?
1. During the lesson, the teacher's role is to provide a Spanish foundation so the kids are able to understand/draw connections between the english words and their Spanish counterpart but only as needed. The majority of the lesson, the teacher will serve as a supervisor.

Questions

1. What topic are you teaching?
1. Christmas in the United States
2. What are your objectives?
1. Main objectives are to introduce Christmas vocabulary that students may have never heard of or may have heard but not understtod while also educate them on the cultural differences between the Spanish and American community
3. What materials are you going to use?
1. Presentation/Slideshow, Multimedia Content, and Games and Quizzes