Christmas Spirit

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)
Lesson
Title/Focus
Christmas Spirit
Subject/Gra
de Level
Grade 3 Health
Unit
Life Learning Choices
Date
Time
Duratio
n
Teacher
Thursday Dec 4
12:30pm 1hour
Miss Nadeau
OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:
Students will use resources effectively to manage and explore life roles and career
opportunities and challenges.
L3.7 Assess how individual contributions can have a positive influence upon the
family, school and community.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Identify ways that they can positively contribute to the Christmas Spirit in the community.
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Products/Performan
ces:
Discussion after story

-What is most important about Christmas?
-Is it about presents?
-What is Christmas Spirit?
-How can we help spread the Christmas Spirit in our community?
-Why is it important to spread Christmas Spirit?
Why is Christmas important?
What are some things that we can do for others at Christmas?
Discussion
Poster: different ideas of things that are important at Christmas, as wells
as things that we can do for others.
LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta POS
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

The Grinch book
Paper
Acts of kindness list
PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Consider:
Attention Grabber
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Consider:
Variety of Learning
Styles
Questioning throughout
Differentiation for
students
Focused formative
assessment
Print off pinterest list (50 Acts of Kindness at Christmas)

-make sample poster.
Introduction
We are all getting excited for Christmas. Lets take a minute to
think about what you are asking for Christmas. How long is your
wish list? Will you be sad if you dont get all that you wanted to
Christmas? Do you think that presents are the most important
thing?
-Consider all of this as we are reading today.
Time
12:30pm
10min
Body
Move to the carpet.
Read the Grinch.
-Why do you think he hates Christmas?
-Why does he not like the singing?
-What does it mean that Christmas came without the presents?
-Why were the whos still happy on Christmas?
-What things are important at Christmas?
Time
12:40pm
15min
-Talk about things that are important to remember.

-Talk about some of the traditions we have.
-What can we do for others at Christmas?
12:55pm
10min
Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe
1:05pm

20min
Make a poster of what Christmas really means to you (not
presents!)
-Show sample and brainstorm other ideas so that students have
a basic idea of what to do, but are still able to branch out on
their own.
Closure
Time
Consider:
Consolidation of
Learning
Feedback from
Students
Feedback to Students
Transition to Next
Lesson
Sponge
Activity/Activities
Share ideas and present posters.
1:25pm
5min
WestJet video: The Spirit of Giving (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKX3G0BpQ)
Reflections from the lesson

This lesson when very well. The students were really able to self-reflect on their own traditions and
hopes for this coming holiday season, as well as step outside of their own lives to think of others. The
most powerful moment of the lesson was when I posed the question, Where does Christmas come
from? I paused to let the students think for a moment, and then I had one rather shy student raise
her hand and say, Christmas doesnt come from stores or presents, it comes from love. The entire
class was quiet, and the theme of the lesson really hit home for the students.
I think the lesson worked very well, and could have gone in so many different directions that we only
briefly touched on. We talked about being ethical citizens, and giving whatever we could. Some of the
students mentioned that they dont have the money to give to things like Operation Christmas Child
or to the Food Bank, but were able to realize that they could give in other ways, with their time and
talents. This giving is easy to start in the home, but is just as important to spread to the school and
local community.
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Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Life Learning Choices

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

Discussion after story

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Print off pinterest list (50 Acts of Kindness at Christmas)

-Talk about things that are important to remember.

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Share ideas and present posters.

WestJet video: The Spirit of Giving (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKX3G0BpQ)

Reflections from the lesson

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

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