Christmas Reflection Activity
Encourage students to reflect on the joys of the holiday season with this engaging Christmas Reflection Activity! This resource prompts students to explore their favourite traditions, holiday plans, and the importance of giving and building relationships. With thought-provoking questions that inspire meaningful discussions and written responses, this activity helps students build emotional intelligence, nurture relationships, and celebrate the magic of Christmas in a personal and creative way.
Learning goals
- We are learning to seek, give, or deny permission respectfully when sharing possessions or personal space.
- We are learning to practise strategies for seeking, giving, or denying permission respectfully.
- We are learning to describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes.
- We are learning to gather ideas and information in spoken texts by making notes, asking questions and seeking assistance and presenting ideas and opinions using appropriate levels of formality.
- We are learning to describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships.
- We are learning to use active listening skills, appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume to communicate and interact clearly and appropriately in a range of situations, discussions and presentations.
Curriculum alignment
Explore how to seek, give or deny permission respectfully when sharing possessions or personal space
AC9HP2P04 9Practise strategies they can use when they need to seek, give or deny permission respectfully
AC9HP4P03 9 Describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes AC9E4LY02 9 Listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information ACPPS037 8.4Describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships
ACELY1687 8.4 Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information ACELY1688 8.4 Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherentlyAustralian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
• Provide sentence starters or key vocabulary for students working below standard to help guide their responses.
• Allow students to verbally share their reflections instead of writing them if preferred.
• Offer visual aids (e.g., holiday-themed images) to support understanding and inspire ideas.
Extensions
• Encourage advanced students to write a short narrative or poem about their favourite Christmas moment.
• Use responses as part of a class discussion on the values of generosity and gratitude during the holiday season.