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Christmas Around the World

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"Christmas Around the World" is anactivity book for 8 -12 year olds that explores how different countriescelebrate Christmas. The book provides children with a variety of research, art,craft and cooking activities designed to give children the opportunity toexamine the Christmas traditions and customs of other countries and cultures.

Some of the research activities incorporate theuse of the Internet as a research tool and a comprehensive list of OnlineReferences relating to Christmas is included.

Bookmark all the Internet sites before you beginthis unit of work. If you have more than one computer available the sites foreach country can be bookmarked on different computers and the children canrotate around the computers.

The activities are ideal for group work with eachgroup looking at one country. The group can choose an art or craft activity anda recipe relating to the country from the book. At the end of the unit of work apresentation day and a "cooking and tasting" day can be planned. Onthe presentation day, the children can display their craft and give a talk onwhat they have learnt about how their country celebrates Christmas. On the"cooking and tasting" day, children from the each group could beresponsible for providing the ingredients for the recipes and the tasting of thefood could replace the traditional class Christmas party.

Sometimes Internet websites disappear. If you can’tconnect with the site immediately, try again at a later time. The site mighthave only disappeared temporarily or moved to another location.

If a site does disappear, the Online Referencepage provides a comprehensive list of Christmas sites that can be used for theresearch activities. The list is only a fraction of the Christmas sites on theInternet and if the children can use the search engines they will be able tolocate many more that could assist in their research.



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