Christmas lessons

Happy (Lego) Christmas!

Christmas lessons
In my mailbox this morning, from the excellent DevelopingTeachers.com weekly teaching tip, some ideas for Christmas lessons.

How was your term?
I also liked the idea (same source) of "assessing how the different courses that we teach have been going & how to tackle them in the next term", together with some suggestions for questions you might ask yourself.

Playing with Lego
The image shows the crib my son and I created with Lego Men. For a fun class activity, if you just happen to have some small Lego models plus their instructions lying around, take them into class, give one student the instructions, their partner the pile of bricks -- and the partner has to build the model. What you want is the kind of Lego model that comes in a little box, with very few parts (around 25) -- a dumper truck, that sort of thing, or a police motorbike.

Works best if you specify that only the builder can actually touch the bricks.

See also
More lesson ideas for special days of the year.

More stuff in your mailbox.