It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas

Michael Bublé

Jingle Bells

An easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn version of this children's Christmas song Jingle Bells is a holiday favorite around the world. However, the lyrics to Jingle Bells can often be too fast for emerging speakers to sing-along with and understand. The first time through, kids can sing in a call-and-response format so it's easy to follow along. Then we sing one time through with no call-and-response so kids can try to sing at regular speed.

 
2nd Cycle Primary School. Super Simple Learning

We wish you a Merry Christmas

 We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England. The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where in wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to the carolers on Christmas Eve, such as figgy puddings and Christmas puddings. It is one of the few English traditional carols that makes mention of the New Year celebration and is often the last song carolers sing, wishing all good tidings and happy spirits at Christmastime.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas» es un villancico popular anónimo del siglo XVI proveniente del West Country de Inglaterra. El origen de los villancicos de navidad en la tradición inglesa se relaciona con la costumbre en que la gente rica de la comunidad regalaba dulces navideños a los cantores de villancicos en la víspera de Navidad, como figgy puddings y Christmas puddings. Es uno de los pocos villancicos tradicionales ingleses que menciona al año nuevo.
Lyrics
We wish you a Merry Christmas (x3)
and a Happy New Year.

REFRAIN

Good tidings we bring for you and your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year.

O bring us some figgy pudding (x3)
and bring it right here.

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And we won't go until we've got some (x3)
so bring some out here.

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It's a season for music (x3)
and a time of good Cheer.

Christmas ornaments

 Do you put the Christmas tree in your house?

Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to decorate a Christmas tree. Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members. Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation. Santa Claus is a commonly used figure. Candy canes, fruit, animals, snowmen, angels and snowflake imagery are also popular choices

Los adornos de Navidad son decoraciones (generalmente de vidrio , metal, madera o cerámica) que se utilizan para adornar un árbol de Navidad. Los adornos tienen muchas formas diferentes, desde una simple bola redonda hasta diseños de alto nivel artístico . Los adornos casi siempre se reutilizan año tras año, en lugar de comprarse anualmente, y las colecciones de la familia a menudo contienen una combinación de adornos y decoraciones compradas y otras creados por los miembros de la familia. Estas colecciones a menudo se pasan y se aumentan de generación en generación. Papá Noel es una figura comúnmente usada. Los bastones de caramelo, frutas, animales, muñecos de nieve, ángeles y las imágenes de copo de nieve son también opciones populares.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening before Christmas Day, on December 24th. Many churches ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays. Since Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born at night (based in Luke 2:6-8), Midnight Mass is celebrated on Christmas Eve, traditionally at midnight, in commemoration of his birth. The idea of Jesus being born at night is reflected in the fact that Christmas Eve is referred to as "Heilige Nacht" ("Holy Night") in German, "Nochebuena" ("the Good Night") in Spanish. 

Julaftonen (Christmas Eve), a 1904–05 watercolor painting by Carl Larsson

Christmas Pudding Biscuits

These Christmas Pudding Biscuits are slightly chocolate, delicious and fun to make and decorate!

You will need: Makes 16 

175g soft unsalted butter, 175g caster sugar 3 eggs, 400g plain flour, 75g cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt 200g white chocolate, Green writing icing, Glace cherries 

  Instructions: 

Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder in to the bowl and mix in well to form a dough. Wrap the dough in cling-film and pop into the fridge for at least 1 hour. Roll out the dough to about 1/2 cm thick. Use a large circle cutter to cut 12 circles. Place on a lined or greased baking tray and bake for 12 minutes. The biscuits should be browning slightly but still spongy to touch. They will firm up as they cool. When the biscuits are cool, melt the white chocolate. Coat half of each biscuit in white chocolate. Trim the glace cherries into small pieces and put them on to each biscuit to form the holly berries. Use writing icing to draw on the holly leaves. If you don't have the time or inclination to make your own biscuits any shop bought chocolate cookies can be substituted and decorated in the same way.