Deseos de Navidad

Lolly and Larkin'Christmas Wishes' is our second Advent Calendar story featuring Santa's grandchildren, Lolly and Larkin, and their amazing adventure around the world with Pluma Blanca, the snow goose.

Mrs Christmas gives the children a list of 12 animals and sets them the task of finding out what they would like for Christmas, with surprising results!

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Also available in English, French and German.

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Printable resources - suggestions for use

Children work in pairs or small groups with a shared Word Mat.
Child A has a set of animal cards and a set of toy cards.

The cards can be pictures and text, pictures only, text only or a mixture of all 3 versions.
They could even be a mixture of languages! Each version is available to download separately.

Child A turns over a card from the pile to reveal an animal. Child B greets appropriately, '¡Hola elefante!', '¡Hola pequeño mono!', ' ¡Hola pingüinos!' and chooses a phrase from the Word Mat to ask about choice of present -' ¿Qué te gustaría?' ' ¿Qué les gustaría ..?'

Child A then turns over a card from a separate pile to reveal a toy or present and chooses a phrase to express preference - ' Me gustaría', ' Me encantaría', ' Nos gustaría ....' etc

The pair or group could then write a simple script and act out the dialogue.
The cards are also suitable for matching and memory games. 

Word Mat

A range of questions and replies from the story to use as a reference in dialogue and written work.
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Playing Cards - Animals 1

A set of 16 playing cards with images and text from the story. Click to preview or log in to download.

Playing Cards - Animals 2

Set of 16 playing cards with images only.

Playing Cards - Animals 3

Cards with text only.

Playing Cards - Toys 2

Set of 12 playing cards with images only - and blanks to add your own choice.

Playing Cards - Toys 3

Set of 12 playing cards with text only - and blanks to add your own choices.

Playing Cards - Toys 1

A set of 12 toys and presents from the story, with blanks to add your own!
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Smart Notebook Gallery Collection

Smart Notebook Gallery The collection consists of over 70 images from the story - backgrounds, characters, animals and toys to help you create your own resources and activities.

A sample of images can be previewed - subscribe to download all 78 images.

If you have Smart Notebook installed on your computer, when you download and click on the Image Gallery file below and choose 'Open', Smart Notebook will open and a Christmas Wishes folder will be created in the 'My Content' folder in your Gallery.

Smart collection iconThe folder will be saved in your Gallery unless you choose to delete it.

If you have problems downloading the Smart Notebook gallery file on your computer, try the zipped version instead.

If you don't have a Smartboard, or want to use the images in other programs such as Word or PowerPoint, you can also download the images as a single zipped file.