• Holiday Greetings
Learn to greet your ethnic friends in their own languages, wishing them a happy holiday or joining in with a song in their own tongue.
Math
There are the skills of counting and addition for little ones. For older ones, working on higher math skills, there are algebra and geometry.
• Gifts
Kids need to learn to budget their own list as well as what they can manage to spend on others.
• Gift Wrapping
What the better way to talk about surface area of solids! Purchase a cloth tape measure handy to measure the various dimensions or just estimate if a package will fit. Estimation is the most needed math skill. Naturally, gift wrapping also involves art! Think about complimentary colors for the wrap and the ribbon. You can use your color printer to print out Christmas wrap designed by your children.
• Gingerbread House
Build a castle or house from a past or future society, to throw in history and civics. How can the geometry of the elements help hold the structure together? What elements seem to work best for what parts? How would you make different parts symmetrical?
• Counting Backwards
Make an Advent CalendarSing The Twelve Days of Christmas too often, or learn The Fourteen Days of Homeschooling. Calculate the cost of these gifts in today's currency. Then make an Advent Calendar. Let the little ones use whole numbers, but have bigger kids make an Excel spreadsheet that will refigure the time left not only in days, but in hours and seconds until present unwrapping time.
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