Not too much to report on this years Christmas lessons in terms of new ideas. It was basically a load of re-hashed festive lessons but one new thing was an art and craft activity which involved making the pop-up Santa’s you can see the kids holding in the pictures below as well as on my last day in Shimo-Akatsuka. Basically, they coloured in the chimney and Santa, cut them out, stuck them on some coloured paper, cut out again, folded, stuck together and then used a chopstick stuck to the back to pop Santa up through the chimney. 20 minutes work to get a minutes prepostion practice from it!!