Lesson Introduction: Lesson # 1 Date: Nov 27, 2017

Title: Christmas around the

(11 - 11:45)
world unit

Name: Manisha Singh Subject: ELA, Grade(s): 3/4

Art

Rationale:
This lesson is an introduction to the Christmas around the World Unit. It will have students
prepare their passports for the unit.
Students will be encouraged to discuss and connect with their experiences around Christmas
traditions.

Curriculum Connections: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/

ELA (3)
Big Idea: Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around
us.
Curricular Competency:
Comprehend and Connect:
Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop
understanding of self and others.
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
ELA (4)
Big Idea: Exploring stories helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to
the world.
Curricular Competency:
Comprehend and Connect:
Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
 Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop
understanding of self and others.
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
ART EDUCATION (3/4)
Big Idea: Creative experiences involve an interplay between exploration, inquiry, and
purposeful choice.
Curricular Competency:
Communicating and documenting:
Express feelings, ideas, and experiences in creative ways

Learning Intentions Activity Assessment

Curricular:
Will be able to:
connect with personal participation
in attentive focus, responses
experience and knowledge, viewing the video. to prompts.
to express their personal
attention and Contributions to whole
response to text through
participation in class.
visual representing and
activities and
speaking. fully completed passport
strategies.
cover page with visual and
utilize their knowledge
written representations.
about elements of art, to add
visual interest to their
artistic creations.

Prerequisite Concepts and Skill :( for student success)

Word and letter formation, ability to view, listen and respond visually and physically, and social
interaction skills.

Materials and Resources with References/Sources:

 For Teacher For Students

Video for the intro: 8 X 11 paper, pens/ pencils

and pencil crayons and glue
G. (2010, December 06). A Brief History of Christmas
sticks to create the passport
Traditions from Around the World. Retrieved November
cover.
18, 2017, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eu9mxPDl8

Video for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVhCWYfpack
Folders for Passport
Passport Cover Templates (please see appendix)
Folders

Differentiated Instruction (DI): (accommodations)

Move around room to engage each learner.
Encourage writing and/or visual representation.
Provide scribing help to students, who may need it.
Provide a Christmas word search worksheet for early finishers.
Organizational/Management Strategies: (anything special to consider?)
have students to work in small groups (3 or 4).
play culturally appropriate music during activity to deepen connections and improve
engagement.

Lesson Activities:

Teacher Activities Student Activities pacing

Introduction (hook/motivation/lesson
overview)
Students sit on their 3-4 min
Instruct the students to sit on their carpets.
carpets.
Students listen/ view
Remind them to remember how they the information given
move their bodies. in the video.
Play the video for the Students.
Explain the Unit Overview / goals to the Students listen to the
students. goal of the unit.

35 min
Body (lesson flow/ management) Students may raise
hands to share their
Invite the students to share some of their response with the
personal traditions around Christmas. class.
Demonstrate a completed passport cover
template, encourage students to use their
creativity. Students may raise
hands to clarify any
Give examples of ideas to add interest in questions about the
their decorating. task.
Check for student understanding. Students go to their
Instruct students to get the stationery stationary bins and
supplies and go back to their tables. bring the supplies and
go back to their
Hand the passport cover template to the tables.
students and instruct them to color and
decorate the cover of My Passport to
Christmas around the World (template
provided by the teacher). Students create the
Instruct the students to glue the passport cover page of their
cover on the front of the folder passport.
(provided), once they have finished
coloring / decorating it. Show an example
of a finished and glued passport cover.
 Play culturally appropriate music during
activity to deepen connections and
improve engagement.
Move around room to engage each
learner.
Provide Christmas for early finishers.

5 min
Students may raise
Closure (connections within lesson or between
hands and respond.
lessons, sharing successes, summaries)
Ask about any successes that students may want
to share, or what countries they think we might
visit.
Instruct students to put away their stationery
supplies back into their respective bins.