A very warm and festive welcome to COGmas 2024
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COGMAS!
A festive educational gift from Emotion Works for busy teachers and practitioners to help keep your spirits high and your classrooms cheerful over the last few weeks of term.
MEMBERS | PAST MEMBERS | NON MEMBERS
A look back at COGmas 2023
Feeling Nostaligic? Take a look over the entries and winners of last year’s 12 Days of Cogmas activity challenge in our COGmas 2023 Padlet
🎵 Last COGmas we gave you some art
And the very next day, you made a display!
Introducing COGmas 2024
We’re excited to share that our new theme for COGmas 2024 is Now that’s what I call COGmas and we’ll be facilitating lots of fun and creative Emotion Works learning and teaching with a Christmas theme.
🎵 So here it is Merry COGmas
Everybody’s having fun
Look to December now
It’s only Just begun!
Introducing the Emotion Cogs
If your learners aren’t already familiar with the Emotion Cogs, this is our 5 Cog Model for a helpful introduction.
The Cog Model & Words Activity Pack provides this slide as a PDF along with subsequent slides to help you unpack 10 different COGmas Emotions using the Emotion Works approach.
Cogmas Bauble
Activity Pack
25 Slides and worksheets with a Cog Bauble theme to create your COGmas displays, compose festive stories, and engage in single cog work.
Cog Model & Words
Activity Pack
Show the 5 Cog Model on-screen for discussions about 10 Christmas words and to formulate festive stories. With a printable activity sheet for exploring other words.
WEEK 1: 2nd - 6th December
COGULOUS DISPLAYS & DECORATIONS
🎵 It’s beginning to look a lot like COGmas all around our school!
Get your classrooms, corridors and performance spaces ready for COGmas!
CLICK HERE FOR ACTIVITY IDEAS & EXAMPLES
ACTIVITY IDEAS:
- The simplest way for existing members to create a festive cog display is to add tinsel, baubles or other Christmas decorations to an existing classroom display or communal area in your school. Simples!
- For those who aren’t currently members or using EW, or for Members who’d like to fully embrace the #EWcogmas spirit, you could create a display in your classroom such as a Christmas tree with Cog Baubles (2D or 3D), or a display of Cog Snowflakes – on a wall or hanging from a line or the ceiling
- Another idea would be to make sets of festive cognifying glasses, or single coloured coggles in the 5, 6 or 7 cog colours you’re learning about and share a photo of children wearing or spying through them
- You could also design and / or make a set of ‘Coggle Hats’ in single Cog colours, taking inspiration from the COGmas Characters
- If working together across the classes, you may like to work together to make a COGmas display in a central area of your school, for example a corridor of dangling festive cogs or paper chains in cog colours, or you might think about using the space and equipment in your Gym, Dining Hall or Playground.
- We like the idea of creating a large COGmas central wall or table area ready for your work to be displayed during the 12 Days of COGmas so that youcan all share your COGtastic work as you create it.
- Be inspired by some ideas on the Emotion Works Christmas Padlet
CATCHY TITLES & IDEAS
OH COGMAS TREE
COGTASTIC SONGS
CHANGE THE LYRICS
TICTOC DANCES
POEMS
STAFF PERFORMANCE
THE XMAS FACTOR
TEACHER’S CHOICE
DR COGMAS DRAMA
CHARADES – SEQUENCE
CREATE YOUR OWN XMAS MOVIE SHORT OR ADVERT FOR A GOOD CAUSE
CHRISTMAS ADVERTS & MOVIES
COGMAS CRAFTS
ANIMATION
TOP TIPS:
Members & Past Members are allowed to incorporate sets of hard copy Cog resources into your displays (Component Cards, DIY Cog Card sets, 21cm or 30cm Cog Cards, Playground Cogs), or you can use printouts from the website as templates.
Non-Members could use the Bauble resources provided in the 12 Days of COGmas Activity Pack 1, or use coloured paper, card and festive materials to create your own cogs for your #EWcogmas displays.
We’ll be looking out for the cog colours to match the number of cogs you’re working with:
- 5 cogs (lower primary/early level)
- 6 cogs (middle Primary / 1st Level)
- or 7 cogs (Upper Primary / 2nd Level)
Post 1
30 slides and worksheets with a Cog Bauble theme to create your COGmas displays, compose festive stories, and engage in single cog work.
Post 2
Show on-screen for Cog discussions about 10 Christmas words and to formulate festive stories. With worksheets for exploring other words of your choice.
Post 3
Show on-screen for Cog discussions about 10 Christmas words and to formulate festive stories. With worksheets for exploring other words of your choice.
TO ENTER: Tweet your entry on 1st, 4th, 5th or 6th December to be in with a chance of winning a set of 21cm or 30cm Display Cogs.
Please tag us using @EmotionWorksCIC and the hashtag #EWcogmas
plus #EWmember OR #EWpastmember OR #EWnonmember
Where possible we’ll allocate 1 giveaway to each of the different membership categories. All winners will be posted on our twitter page on Tues 19th December at 2pm.
WEEK 1: 2nd - 6th December
COGULOUS DISPLAYS & DECORATIONS
🎵 It’s beginning to look a lot like COGmas all around our school!
Get your classrooms, corridors and performance spaces ready for COGmas!
CLICK HERE FOR ACTIVITY IDEAS & EXAMPLES
ACTIVITY IDEAS:
- The simplest way for existing members to create a festive cog display is to add tinsel, baubles or other Christmas decorations to an existing classroom display or communal area in your school. Simples!
- For those who aren’t currently members or using EW, or for Members who’d like to fully embrace the #EWcogmas spirit, you could create a display in your classroom such as a Christmas tree with Cog Baubles (2D or 3D), or a display of Cog Snowflakes – on a wall or hanging from a line or the ceiling
- Another idea would be to make sets of festive cognifying glasses, or single coloured coggles in the 5, 6 or 7 cog colours you’re learning about and share a photo of children wearing or spying through them
- You could also design and / or make a set of ‘Coggle Hats’ in single Cog colours, taking inspiration from the COGmas Characters
- If working together across the classes, you may like to work together to make a COGmas display in a central area of your school, for example a corridor of dangling festive cogs or paper chains in cog colours, or you might think about using the space and equipment in your Gym, Dining Hall or Playground.
- We like the idea of creating a large COGmas central wall or table area ready for your work to be displayed during the 12 Days of COGmas so that youcan all share your COGtastic work as you create it.
- Be inspired by some ideas on the Emotion Works Christmas Padlet
CATCHY TITLES & IDEAS
OH COGMAS TREE
COGTASTIC SONGS
CHANGE THE LYRICS
TICTOC DANCES
POEMS
STAFF PERFORMANCE
THE XMAS FACTOR
TEACHER’S CHOICE
DR COGMAS DRAMA
CHARADES – SEQUENCE
CREATE YOUR OWN XMAS MOVIE SHORT OR ADVERT FOR A GOOD CAUSE
CHRISTMAS ADVERTS & MOVIES
COGMAS CRAFTS
ANIMATION
TOP TIPS:
Members & Past Members are allowed to incorporate sets of hard copy Cog resources into your displays (Component Cards, DIY Cog Card sets, 21cm or 30cm Cog Cards, Playground Cogs), or you can use printouts from the website as templates.
Non-Members could use the Bauble resources provided in the 12 Days of COGmas Activity Pack 1, or use coloured paper, card and festive materials to create your own cogs for your #EWcogmas displays.
We’ll be looking out for the cog colours to match the number of cogs you’re working with:
- 5 cogs (lower primary/early level)
- 6 cogs (middle Primary / 1st Level)
- or 7 cogs (Upper Primary / 2nd Level)
Post 1
30 slides and worksheets with a Cog Bauble theme to create your COGmas displays, compose festive stories, and engage in single cog work.
Post 2
Show on-screen for Cog discussions about 10 Christmas words and to formulate festive stories. With worksheets for exploring other words of your choice.
Post 3
Show on-screen for Cog discussions about 10 Christmas words and to formulate festive stories. With worksheets for exploring other words of your choice.
TO ENTER: Tweet your entry on 1st, 4th, 5th or 6th December to be in with a chance of winning a set of 21cm or 30cm Display Cogs.
Please tag us using @EmotionWorksCIC and the hashtag #EWcogmas
plus #EWmember OR #EWpastmember OR #EWnonmember
Where possible we’ll allocate 1 giveaway to each of the different membership categories. All winners will be posted on our twitter page on Tues 19th December at 2pm.
WEEK 2: 9th - 13th December
COGTASTIC CLASSROOM CREATIONS
🎵
Get creative for COGmas with festive stories, drama, songs and more!
WEEK 3: 16th - 20th December
YOUR BIG COGMAS SHOWCASE
🎵
Share your COGmas creations in an end of term assembly or showcase of your choice.
Feeling Nostalgic?
LAST COGMAS
(2023)
Take a look back at all the COGulous entries and winners who took part in our ’12 Days of COGmas’ activity challenge last year
Feeling Inspired?
INTRODUCING
COGMAS 2024
The Emotion Works Characters welcome you to COGmas 2024 with a word and cog activity challenge.
COGMAS ASSEMBLY
Do your Staff and Pupils have the Xmas Factor?
