I'm intending on doing two lessons for Christmas this year, but so far I only have the material for one.
Please feel free to use this thread to post any ideas/games/worksheets, etc!

Anyway, please find attached something I've been working on for the last couple of weeks  ;)
I hope it's useful to you!

The Christmas Countdown - PPT game
The Christmas Stories - PPT (necessary information for the game)
The Christmas Stories listening task - Worksheet

[The Christmas Stories PPT & Listening Task are to be used together.
The PPT should just play once you open it.
Again, any problems with images/sounds/fonts, just let me know]

The Christmas Countdown Information

A few screens in, a gift will hyperlink you to a digital scoreboard.
To add gifts to a team, click on the reindeer. To remove gifts, click on the gifts.
I would suggest that teams cannot go below 0 in this game. 

To add a shield (invincible) click on the little shield. A second click on the blue shield will remove it.
To return to the main question board click on any number from 1-6.
There is also a hyperlink for question 25 when you are finished.
Question 25 should play automatically. The reindeer are hyperlinked.

Once you have chosen a question, a final click after the last clue will reveal a countdown timer.
Beneath this is a cracker - this is how you return to the main question board.

Everything else should be pretty straight forward!!!

Let me know what you think, and please, use this thread to collaborate some Christmas ideas.
As you can surely tell, I'm excited already!

Edit - The Christmas Stories (Fonts, sigh)

I haven't even opened the powerpoint but the description alone gets a round of applause from me. I was proud of myself the day I learned how to hyperlink. Well done!

Glad you could use it! Let me know if you get any more ideas.
I still need to make another lesson somehow...

Anyone have any good ideas on how to get students to decorate the classroom?

thanks heaps for sharing for this. you rock my socks 

Amazing! A job well done! The students like nothing better than a little competition. I'm confident this is going to go over great with them.

Thanks again!

Here's some stuff I posted earlier for an advent lesson:

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,2765.0.html

Hopefully some ideas you could use.

Charlie

Snowflakes:  http://www.firststepsnowflakes.com/

Just google "paper snowflakes" to get lots and lots and lots of instructional pages.  The most basic form, which I teach my kids, is to just fold a paper into quarters, then fold it in half on the diagonal, and then cut the uneven end so it's round.  Then hack holes in the sides and unfold. 

This looks magnificent.  Thank you!

Hey vitamin-d,

An idea for decorating the classroom that worked great for my high schoolers around Halloween time was to put them in groups and have them make posters.  I printed off something like 15 different Halloween cards with several pictures on each and let them choose from there, or make their own.  For example, a werewolf card with several different pictures that they could recreate or use for inspiration.  Their posters had to have a title and some kind of description, other than that they could do whatever they wanted.  A lot of the posters turned our REALLY great because they had references from the pictures I had printed.  Also, once they saw how much work some students put it they picked up their game because they wanted theirs to be good as well.

It's Thanksgiving and I haven't brought myself to take them down yet.  Will give in sometime today.

Also, you can have all of the students vote and have a prize for the best/most creative/ whatever poster.  Just an idea.

Posters sound great Shambles, I may very well do that.
As for the digital scoreboard I've made another, more generic, version here:
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,2824.msg13186/topicseen.html#new

Rufus, do feel free to adapt it and make it better  :D