Dec. 12, 2007 - Ideas to add Christmas Fun to your school days!
I don't know what everyone else does for school around Christmas time, but this year, we continued with our Middle Ages unit study, rather than taking time off to do an entire focus on Christmas.
I want to share with you a few of the things we are doing, though, to put a little "Christmas cheer" into our day.
Christmas Countdown Calendar--this is a freebie I made available to my newsletter subscribers. However, you would be able to create something similar by find a list of Christmas appropriate Scriptures, basically Advent Scriptures, to read everyday.
Christmas Notebooking Forms--many different notebooking companies are offering these either free or very low cost. They are a great way to have the kids copy Christmas appropriate Scriptures for copywork each day. Use the verses from the above daily readings.
Chocolate Advent Calendar--after we are done reading each of the day's verses, the kids are able to open the door and are treated with one small piece of chocolate. Each day has a different design on them. They are a lot of fun and the kids look forward to this every year. Ours came from the local Dollar Tree.
Toy Advent Calendar--my daughter bought herself a Littlest Pet Shop Advent Calendar with some money she received for losing one of her teeth. She has really enjoyed it. I know that Lego and Playmobil also offer affordable advent calendars.
The Cinnamon Bear Audios--these are old-time radio show programs that you get to listen to 1 per day the 24 days before Christmas. We were able to get these last year through Homeschool Radio Shows.
A Christmas Carol audiobook--we went to our local library and checked out the CD version of this book. We have been able to listen to a little bit here and there. The kids are really enjoying this book. I love the meaning behind the story that people are more important than things.
I would love to hear any ideas that you have for adding quick and easy Christmas themes into your homeschool day!
