Every year we take December off from our usual scholarly studies to focus on Christmas School. In the past we have done Christmas carols, Names of Christ, Christmas Symbols, etc. I also like to throw in some fun mini units about snowflakes, or hot chocolate, or gingerbread. ☺
This year we will be doing two different things. First we will be following this Christmas Season Advent book. It is decidedly LDS but for those not of my faith, Ann Voskamp from A Holy Experience has a wonderful Jesse Tree Advent Devotional Book. We will be doing things from both.
Next week I am partnering with CurrClick and nine other homeschoolers for a Christmas Around the World blog tour and unit study. On Tuesday I will be posting a unit study I’ve put together about Christmas in Spain. I’ll also be giving away some goodies that day as well! Other countries that will be represented during the week long blog tour include Ireland, Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, England, China, Korea, and Italy. I hope you’ll join me!
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Oh I can’t wait. We are doing Christmas Around the World from Galloping the Globe. I can’t wait to learn about Christmas in other countries. Thanks!
Thank you thank you! I am making an acitivity advent right now for our family and am throwing in a few visits to your blog tour to fill in some of the stay home days!
And thank you thank for the link to the advent book. I have been searching for one for several months that met my family’s needs and this one is perfect, and just in time! If you know the author, please pass on my thanks! I am sharing the link with several of my friends and printing/binding a few copies to give as early gifts to my non-internet sister and friends.
Jannet
I’ve always loved learning about Christmas around the World! Maybe I can incorporate some of the ideas into our celebration! I can’t wait to see what you all have to share!
so super cool…i am going to check this out for myself!!
What fun! I don’t home school my kids, but I do supplement their education and I think this would be something they would really like. Thank you for sharing. I will be checking back to see how this goes.
What a fabulous idea! My kids will love this. I am fairly new to Homeschooling so this is really a new concept for me. Thank you so much for the link to the Advent Book. I can’t wait to get started tomorrow!
It’s this time of year I envy the home schoolers for being able to decide their schedule. I’d enjoy ditching some of the work required for school in favor of Christmas school, or the like. We are supplementing our Advent with a wonderful program written to accompany the Catholic mass readings cycle. It gives points to ponder, a bit of homework and great discussion starters for our family meetings. Enjoy your month. I will look forward to the Italy post 🙂
Just wanted to say ive really enjoyed all your blog posts this past month very interesting!!
I just found this Advent book and his site too. It looks great. In fact, I printed out his Christmas Season scriptures to go with the Christmas Countdown candles we made at our RS party tonight.
I haven’t been here to comment in ages, but I’ve so enjoyed reading about your life. Happy Birthday last week (I think you share a birthday with my D) and enjoy your December!