Lesson Three – Italian Christmas Calendar
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to record and sequence some of the special events and traditions that can illustrate how Christmas is celebrated by families in Italy.
The class can compose reports describing one of the special ways that Italian families celebrate Christmas in comparison to other communities around the world.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to record and sequence some of the special events and traditions that can illustrate how Christmas is celebrated by families in Italy
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the Christmas traditions that are followed in Italy, a set of cards to sequence a range of different events and traditions showing how Christmas is celebrated in Italy and a template to select and record an event or tradition showing how Christmas is celebrated by Italian families.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the events and traditions showing how Christmas is celebrated by families in Italy.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following a range of special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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