You can find the song here
and the lyrics to the song here
The Twelve Days of Christmas in a traditional song describing the gifts someone receives from their true love over the 12 days of Christmas. My group of older children (9 to 11 years) are doing a project at the moment on Festivals Around The World. Our focus for the last few sessions has been Christmas in the UK.
The Twelve Days of Christmas is another way for them to learn a little more about how we celebrate Christmas in the UK and also to revise numbers and ordinals to 12. They have been pratising ordinals for a while now but they are still finding it a bit tricky especially with all those 'th' sounds!
I have adapted Claire's instructions because I wanted to make 12 strips, one for each of the 12 Days of Christmas.
You can find my template and instructions here: Christmas bauble The 12 Days of Christmas template
Here is an example of one that we are working on to give you an idea of what it should look like:
The strips need to be cut out, punched with holes at both ends and then attached using butterfly pins.
Take a look at these wonderful free visual flashcards from Twink here and more with the pictures and words here to help your children learn the song.
Main communication and cultural aims:
- learning about how Christmas is celebrated in the UK.
- numbers and ordinals to 12
- nouns: a partridge, a pear tree, turtle doves, French hens, colly birds, gold rings, geese, swans, maids, ladies, lords, pipers, drummers
- verbs: laying, swimming, milking, dancing, leaping, piping, drumming
Please let me know if you found this useful and do send us some bauble photos if you decide to make these. I'll add photos of our finished baubles next week too.
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