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Winter holidays πŸŽ„ β€” a ready 25-minute lesson plan

Aylara A.

Kids' teacher Β· founder of AylaraTalks

July 18, 2026 Β· 4 min read

A ready-to-teach winter holidays lesson built on the five-block structure: land & warm, teach, play, produce, land. Every link below opens with this topic already loaded β€” the plan runs from one browser tab.

Before the lesson (1 minute)

  • Open the winter holidays topic page in a tab β€” the word wall doubles as your flashcards and pronunciation guide.
  • Offline or with a printer: print the flashcards sheet. Two items maximum on the child's desk.
πŸ—‚οΈ Winter holidays pack

Warm-up (0–3 min)

The fixed opening: wave + name + hello song. Then thirty seconds of topic TPR: "Show me a Santa! Now be a Christmas tree!" β€” bodies first, words after.

Teach: six words (3–9 min)

  • πŸŽ… Santa (Π”Π΅Π΄ ΠœΠΎΡ€ΠΎΠ·) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
  • πŸŽ„ Christmas tree (Ρ‘Π»ΠΊΠ°) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
  • β›„ snowman (снСговик) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
  • πŸ›· sled (санки) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
  • 🦌 reindeer (сСвСрный олСнь) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
  • πŸŽ† fireworks (ΡΠ°Π»ΡŽΡ‚) β€” show, say, echo in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it.
πŸ’‘Six is the honest limit for one lesson. The rest of the topic waits for lesson two β€” greed here costs retention there.

Play (9–17 min)

Main game on today's words β€” Memory in picture↔word mode (say every card aloud), or Bingo if the child likes hunting. One game played twice beats two games played once.

πŸƒ Memory with this topic🎫 Bingo with this topic

Produce (17–22 min)

  • Personal questions with today's words: "Do YOU like the Santa? Which one is big? Which is your favourite?"
  • Or spin Name 3 β€” when the cube lands anywhere near today's theme, watch the recall fireworks.
🌌 Name 3

Land (22–25 min)

  • The suitcase: 'What are you taking home?' β€” each child packs one word.
  • A star on the chart, the fixed goodbye song, camera wave.
⭐ Star chart (printable)

⭐ Take this with you

Six winter holidays words met seven ways in twenty-five minutes β€” and next lesson starts by waking these words before adding more. Steal this structure for any topic; the games re-load in one tap.

🎈 Put it into play

Everything here pairs with our free classroom games β€” no prep, no accounts.

Open the games

About the author

Aylara A.

Kids' teacher Β· founder of AylaraTalks

Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game β€” cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.

βœ‰οΈ aylaratalks@gmail.comπŸ’¬ @aylaratalks

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