Christmas World

This geography scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories. The class can compose recounts and reports to make comparisons and highlight differences.

Explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following a range of special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories

Lesson One : Festival of Santa Lucia

Plan and hold a school procession to explore and illustrate some of the special ways that Christmas is celebrated by families in Sweden

Lesson Two : Christmas in Germany

Research and write a recount about what might happen when visiting relatives in Germany to describe some of their special Christmas traditions

Lesson Three : Italian Christmas Calendar

Record and sequence some of the special events and traditions that can illustrate how Christmas is celebrated by families in Italy

  • Ordering and Changing

    Ordering and Changing

    Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less

  • Changing Hundreds

    Changing Hundreds

    Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits

  • Digit Changes

    Digit Changes

    Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits

  • Changing Numbers

    Changing Numbers

    Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values