Christmas Studies - Some additions to our Christmas Unit Study

Christmas Unit Study
You can choose any aspect of Christmas as your focus. There are resources for learning about Christmas trees, Christmas music, and Christmas traditions around the world. You'll find links to Christmas crafts, Christmas recipes, Christmas lesson plans, games, and activities. Pick a theme with your children and set them loose finding the things they want to do. In between activities pause for a little game of Elf Bowling or decorate your computer with Christmas themed wallpaper and icons.

• Little Piccola
• The Stranger Child
• Saint Christopher: A Golden Legend
• The Christmas Rose
• The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff
• The Pine Tree
• The Christmas Cuckoo
• The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg
• The Christmas Thorn of Glastonbury
• The Three Kings of Cologne

Witnessing the True Meaning of Christmas
As I was putting together the Christmas edition of the homeschool newsletter I write every month, I was lamenting to a friend of mine that we had very little news because everyone is so busy with Christmas preparations.

She said, to me, "But remember, Robin, this is Christmas! No news is the Good News!" With that reminder, I want to remind everyone to heed well the birth of Jesus and the spirit of Christmas.

History of Christmas
What is the history of Christmas? When did we start sending Christmas cards and why? Why candy canes? How did Santa Claus become part of Christmas?

Christmas Music on the Web

Creative Gift Giving
Great ideas for year round gift giving on a budget.

Surviving or Celebrating
As the Christmas season approaches are you celebrating or just surviving? Tammy tells us ways to move out of surviving mode.

Origami Christmas Ornaments