Dec. 3, 2008
More holiday fun!!
Posted in ideas in action
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I found some wonderful free resources for teaching this Christmas. Today, we started "The Names of Jesus" study, which is free to download here. It is 149 pages and has a name each day. Day one is The Alpha and the Omega. Each day has possible activities to extend the lesson. So for the first day, we talked about how a circle has no beginning or end, copied the Greek letters for Alpha and Omega, copied the "chi ro" symbol for this name and wrote it as a note to Grandma, copied Rev. 22:13, one of the verses where this name is mentioned... And there were still more activity ideas that we did NOT do! There are cooking ideas, history ideas, science ideas, word searches, coloring pages, notebooking pages. What a great resource! I actually would PAY for something like this, but thankfully it is free. Another resource we are going to use is a Symbols of Christmas lapbook (we may incorporate the two, such as writing the names of Christ on the lapbook as well). It is free and is available here. If lapbooks aren't your thing, there is a Christmas Symbols Unit Study here (which is what you use with the lapbook anyway). There are some advent coloring sheets for free at dltk-kids.com. Here is the exact link. I am using these for the MOPS kids class I teach. And if you want to try a Jesse tree (something I always say I'm going to do but have yet to accomplish), here is a link for information, pictures, etc. I also mentioned The Advent Book in a previous post. I love this book and cannot say enough about it. I feel so blessed to have received it as a gift. We use it each year. A new addition this year is the Usborne Advent Nativity Book. It has sturdy, punch-out pieces, one for each day to add to your nativitry scene in the days leading up to Christmas. I am holding off on punching them out until after I use it for the MOPS kids on Friday morning. Then the kids can have at it! You can get the book from an Usborne consultant. If you don't have one, the youth pastor's wife at my church sells them. You can contact her here. You can even place an order online and have it shipped directly to you! (And no, I don't get anything from this; she's just a friend and I want to help her.) Merry Homeschool Christmas!!! |