The last weeks of term are a lot. This booklet gives you weeks of real English and maths lessons, and students mark their own work.
Students become Santa’s Travel Elf and fly to 12 countries to discover how Christmas is celebrated around the world. At each stop, they read, write and solve maths problems, crack a coded boarding pass to find their next destination, and collect clues to solve the mystery: who ate Santa’s cookies?
It’s not busy work. Every stop practises Year 5–6 skills from the Australian Curriculum:
- Reading comprehension: retrieval, inference and vocabulary
- Grammar, including relative clauses, active and passive voice, apostrophes and commas
- 12 planned paragraphs, each with a topic sentence, four points and a concluding sentence
- Decimals, fractions, percentages and money
- Order of operations, factors, primes and negative numbers
- Angles, coordinates, area, volume, probability and data
Inside the 108-page booklet:
- 12 country stops with reading, grammar, writing, maths and a puzzle
- Coded boarding passes, a Departures Board and a passport
- A cookie mystery with a clue at every stop
- Ciphers, logic puzzles, sudoku and a crossword
- 3 craft pages
- Bonus pages and a certificate
- Answer key and teacher notes
Why it saves your sanity:
- Students work through it on their own
- They check their answers themselves
- Print and go
