This week I started teaching the students about Christmas. Since Tanghu Elementary is such a large school I had to start teaching the students about Christmas now, or I would be teaching it until January! Christmas is my absolute favourite holiday, and I was really excited to share it with the children. This week at Tanghu was also Sports Day, and it was lovely to see all the children compete and join in! 

        Since Grade 4 already have a basic understanding of Christmas, I was able to build on this to teach them a little about the history and traditions we celebrate. They learned about why we celebrate, how we celebrate, as well as some Christmas songs. We all sung along to the popular western Christmas songs "Jingle Bells" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas". The children all were very enthusiastic about singing, and by the end of the class were able to pronounce the lyrics very well!

        After teaching the children some Christmas songs, I then taught them about how we write letters to Santa saying what we want for Christmas. We then all played a game, throwing a ball around the classroom asking each other what we want for Christmas. Next week I teach Grade 2 again, and I can't wait to teach them all about Christmas as well!