Producer’s Pick: Festive Fun!

We’ve got a real merry treat for you today!

With the festive season coming soon, we’ve been chatting to our producers about seasonal content on EducationCity and what their top picks are – so that teachers like you can embrace the most jolly time of year in your classrooms.

In the recommended content, there’s snow, ice, igloos, snowmen, snowflakes and so much more, with content being suggested across the English/Literacy, Mathematics/Maths/Numeracy and Science modules, so you can get festive content in a variety of subjects.

What’s more, they’re all mapped to the curriculum so you can be sure that you’re making your lessons festive but meeting those all-important objectives too!

So… let’s read on to see EducationCity’s producers’ top picks for festive content. Remember, you can just use ‘Search’ on EducationCity to quickly and simply access the content; from there, you can also add content into MyCities, for students to access in the classroom or at home via Home Access*.

Hint! Don’t forget that you can also use all the content as a class and put it up on your whiteboard, or individually on tablets or laptops – it’s really flexible!

Please note: all recommended Activities come with accompanying peripherals in the form of Lesson Plans, Teacher Notes and Activity Sheets (and where applicable, Reference Sheets).

English/Literacy

Activities

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Build a Snowman – Help Stig to build a snowman by choosing the correct order.

  • England: F1
  • Scotland: Early *
  • Wales: Nursery
  • N. Ireland: N/A

In the Igloo – Recognise what the letter ‘i’ looks like and learn the short ‘i’ sound.

  • England: F1 & F2
  • Scotland: Early *
  • Wales: Nursery
  • N. Ireland: P1

Snowman – Match the ‘lower case’ letter with a letter and phonetic sound.

  • England: F2
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Reception
  • N. Ireland: P2

Fish with Manu – Identify the missing word from the sentence.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 1
  • N. Ireland: P3

I See Words – Identify and read high-frequency words and tricky words.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Nursery
  • N. Ireland: P1

Rabbit Seeks a Snack – Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting and events.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Year 1
  • N. Ireland: P2 & P3

Snow Hope – Read and spell the common spelling patterns ee: ‘ee’ and ‘ea’.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Snow Hope – Read and spell the common spelling patterns ai: ‘ai’ ‘a-e’ and ‘ay’.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Snow Hope – Spell words with the occurrence of the letter ‘v’.

  • England: Year 3
  • Scotland: Second *
  • Wales: Year 4
  • N. Ireland: N/A

Snow Hope – Spell polysyllabic words that contain unstressed vowels.

  • England: Year 5 and 6
  • Scotland: Second **
  • Wales: N/A
  • N. Ireland: N/A

Snow Hope – Word endings: adding the suffix ‘able’ and ‘ible’.

  • England: Year 5 and 6
  • Scotland: Second ***
  • Wales: Year 7
  • N. Ireland: N/A

Mathematics/Maths/Numeracy

Activities

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Carrot Nose – Help Stig count the objects on his snowman.

  • England: F1
  • Scotland: Early *
  • Wales: Nursery
  • N. Ireland: Pre-School

Fish with Manu – Compare 2 given numbers and say which is more or less.

  • England: Year 1
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Shiver and Quiver – Use negative numbers in the context of temperature.

  • England: Year 5
  • Scotland: Second ***
  • Wales:   Year 6
  • N. Ireland: P7

Slippery Slope – Recognise and order negative numbers, down to -5.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second *
  • Wales: Year 5
  • N. Ireland: P5

Slippery Slope – Recognise and order negative numbers, down to -5.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second *
  • Wales: Year 5
  • N. Ireland: P5

Slippery Slope – Solve problems involving negative numbers.

  • England: Year 5
  • Scotland: Second ***
  • Wales: Year 5
  • N. Ireland: P7​

Snow Hope – Read numbers in words up to 20.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: Early ***
  • Wales: Year 1
  • N. Ireland: P3

Science

Activities

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Snowflakes – Help Stig find the matching snowflakes.

  • England: F1
  • Scotland: N/A
  • Wales: Nursery
  • N. Ireland: N/A

Cold as Ice – Melt or freeze different materials to overcome obstacles.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second **
  • Wales: Year 5
  • N. Ireland: P6

Hot Springs – Identify forms of water.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P4

We hope your class enjoy using these Activities to get into the festive spirit!

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