Teacher Notes:
English writing skills
Write a short description of what you would feel if you woke Christmas morning to not one present. Compare this to finding your Christmas wish granted had been granted.
Drawing and emotional intelligence
Draw a four frame comic showing the changes a thoughtful gift can make to a sad person’s facial expression.
Team work:
List ways the class could work together to make a difference in the lives of less fortunate folk this Christmas. With your teacher’s guidance, implement one of your class’s projects.
Sequencing:
Make a photo diary of how you all worked to achieve your outcome as a class.
Pic and poem and teacher notes by J.R.Poulter
Teacher notes: Great ideas on using this poem in your classroom
Themes: rules, boundaries, pet care, living together harmoniously, thinking of others.
Classroom: Write a list of rules, explain why they would be good rules. Write a story or poem, or draw a picture about a funny ‘oopsie’ with a new pet or a younger sister or brother.
Discussion – Why do we have rules in the classroom, rules on the roads.
Why do we have laws?
What would happen if no one obeyed rules, if there were no boundaries, no laws or penalties for breaking them?
Australian Children’s Poetry 