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Areas of Learning: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Creative Development and Knowledge
and Understanding of the World.
Context: The children had discussed their Christmas trees
at home and talked about the sort of tree decorations they liked.
Learning Intentions: To talk about and recogise the ways
that Christians celebrate Christmas (PSED). To select colours and tools
in a simple paint program (KUW).
To choose colours and tools for a purpose (CD).
Success Criteria : I know /can use different different tools and colours to decorate
a Christmas tree.
Key Vocabulary: festival, celebrate, Christmas, pattern,
colour, palette, tool, mouse, click, paintbrush, size, undo, print, tinsel,
lights, baubles, stars.
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You
will need: simple paint program.
Show
the class the empty tree in your Paint program. Discuss how we can decorate
a Christmas tree on the computer.
Demonstrate choosing tools and colours to decorate the tree. Discuss
how different tools work better for different decorations.
Click here to download template:  Christmas
tree template (right click on this link
to save on your computer).
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In
talking pairs, ask the children to plan the tools and colours that they
are going to use to decorate their trees:
What decorations do we want on our tree?
Which tools shall we use to make those decorations?
What colours shall we use to decorate our trees?
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Activity one:
You
will need: small artificial/real Christmas tree, a box of decorations.
Set up a small real/artificial Christmas tree in the classroom. Give children
a selection of decorations in a box. Ask children to take turns to decorate
a real tree.
Activity two:
You will need: simple paint program.
Give
children the opportunity to create a picture of the real tree in the Paint
program.
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Christmas
tree template