I'd like to assign a Christmas report for my dd (6th grade) on "Christmas in...(choose country)". The thing is, I can't find any guidelines that I'd require of her for this. Does anyone know of any websites that would help me, as a teacher, to write something up that would help her to do this?
go to the link that someone posted for the christmas notebook, then scroll to the bottom, pick different traditions, dates of starting of the traditions, what days etc, ask questions after you read info you can find on it.
How about the History of Christmas celebrations for that country, Traditions, Foods and customs, etc. I stumbled across a book while trying to find recipes and ended up using it with our studies. The book we are using from the library is called " A Christmas Companion: Recipes, Traditions, and Customs Around the World" by Maria Roberts and Jim Charlton. In the book, we found information on the historical account of Christmas during the 15th century England and the older midwinter customs of Ancient Rome.
I'm not sure I am understanding what exactly you are looking for, but I found this scoring rubric for reports and thought it might be useful for you http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/07AAAM28.pdf
I got started and now I am having fun lookign for stuff about Christmas around the world, even though it is a bit much for my preschooler and 1 st grader, LOL. I hope some of these sites are a help to you. A bit of information about Christmas in many countries http://k6educators.about.com/gi/dyn...ts=1&zu=http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/ This one might be a little young for your dd, but it seems well done and has lots of info. http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/nbarkhou/christmaswq/
Check at the library. I assigned each of my special needs kid a country when I was in the classroom. I also gave the parents a list of possible books they could check out of the library to help them, lol!
Thanks everyone! Sometimes I get some great ideas but then don't know where to go after that. The rubric will help and the websites. I ended up making up a sheet that gave her something to start with - traditions, if they celebrate with Christ and/or Santa, foods etc. She picked Germany so she was able to find somethings online and at our local library. It is really an interesting topic and she decided she wants to study Germany even after the Christmas topic. I'm thinking about having her make some of the german desserts too. School's always better when it includes yummy things to eat!!!
When in doubt..I fall back on 1 paragraph, 3 paragraphs, or 5 paragraph format. 1 paragraph for a general info type paragraph, 5 for more structure and more information. You may wish to put a historical slant on it. So many places do it the same now, but if you can say something like how Sweden did it 200 years ago..that would be lots of fun! You might consider celebrating that holiday too. Make it a small thing, on one day where you do a small version of the holiday. I would highly recommend picking a country from your own heritage too.
How about what Christmas was like in your area 100 years ago? What stores were there .. where did people live ... Not as cool an idea as your own heritage, but a different twist ...
