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Rose 3 - Learning Experience Christmas Around the World
"Learning Experience" activities and suggestions that will empower and enable you as educators to support multicultural education using the principles laid out in the new ELYF Framework.
Please find below free valuable, insightful and practical ways that multiculturalism may be brought into your early years learning environment on a daily basis using the "Early Years Learning Framework" (EYLF).
Each article includes:
- Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) Outcomes
- Key Learning Area Links
- Extension Ideas
- Equipment required
- Instructions
- Global Kids Oz Linked Resources
All articles on this page have been kindly created and modified specifically for Global Kids Oz use by Rebecca Perkins of Rose 3 Learning Experience, all articles are subject to full copywright guidelines and may only be used within a classroom environment and not to be used for any other article content for any other reason, permission to copy or use this content for anything other than a EYLF setting must be approved in writing by Rebecca Perkins of Rose 3 Learning Experience. To access more learning experiences supporting the full ELYF program please contact Rebecca directly on 0402 284 581 or go to her website www.rose3.com.au
Objective: For children to see the similarities and differences of how Christmas is celebrated around the world.
Materials
- Non-fiction books on Christmas in different countries
- Pictures, posters or photos of Christmas celebrations around the world (You could even find some on the internet)
- A world globe or map
- A large blanket which you can pretend is a sleigh
- Elf hats (optional)
Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes*
Outcome 1: Children
- will move confidently around the room with care and respect for others. They can enjoy moving within their own space, while taking care to respect the personal space of others.
- can safely experiment with the different ways their body can move, and the different ways it can occupy space (up high, bending low, sitting, stretching).
Outcome 2: Children
- develop a sense of belonging to a group, by participating in a shared movement experience.
- respond to diversity with respect through a greater understanding of how Christmas is celebrated in other countries.
Outcome 3: Children
- develop social, emotional and physical wellbeing through participation in an enjoyable guided dramatic play experience which gives them physical exercise.
Outcome 4: Children
- transfer and adapt the knowledge they have gained from books, pictures and discussions on Christmas, into a meaningful creative movement experience.
- resource their learning, connecting people, palace and materials through drama.
Outcome 5: Children
- interact verbally and non-verbally with others, throughout their adventure around the world.
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Instructions
Using your globe, books and pictures, talk about Christmas around the world. Discuss the fact that many, but not all countries celebrate Christmas, and that some celebrate in similar ways to us, and some celebrate differently.
Give each child an elf hat if using these, and explain that you are all going to be Santa’s elves. You are going to go for a ride on his sleigh, around the world, to see how children are celebrating Christmas in other countries. Dramatise a sleigh ride with your ‘elves’, using the points below as a guide. Visit these countries:
1. China—notice the Christmas trees are called ‘Trees of Light’. They are decorated with paper chains, paper flowers and paper lanterns. (Help Santa fill their stockings. Sshh Don’t wake them!)
2. Japan-the children like their presents left beside their pillow. Look! They have left us some Christmas cake. It’s sponge cake covered in whipped cream and strawberries! Yum!
3. France-the children have left their shoes out by the fireplace so Santa can put their gifts in. Let’s help Santa!
Visit more countries if you choose, and then fly safely back to Santa’s house for a well deserved mug of hot chocolate!
Key Learning Areas Skills and Knowledge
Literacy/Vocabulary (English)
Positional language—up, down, high, low, over, in, next.
Following instructions/directions.
Health and Physical Education
Gross Motor Skills –’flying’ on the ‘sleigh’, creeping around while exploring homes and delivering presents.
SOSE (Studies of Society and Environment)
How are our Christmas celebrations alike?
How are they different?
The Arts
Dramatising a Christmas sleigh ride around the world
Extension Ideas
Find China, Japan and France on a world globe. What other countries do children know?
Make a Japanese Christmas cake.
Learn a Christmas poem or song.
Repeat the experience, visiting different countries.
Global Kids Oz Linked Resources