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| Christmas Lesson Ideas | Families who integrate the holiday spirit into their December curriculum find they reduce the stress of trying to do it all and be it all to everyone.
How do you squeeze in all those required subjects and still get all the decorating, shopping and baking done? Here is how you'd cover and report how you fulfilled various subject requirements. Many of activities concern far more than just one curriculum area, and some will continue well into January.
The Art of Language
It includes English grammar and writing compositions, spelling, handwriting, reading of literature, foreign languages.
• Greeting Cards
This year write a family note to include in your cards, composition. Have the artist in your family design the card. Then address the envelopes by hand (handwriting, English, spelling) or create a database of friends' addresses and make labels. Calculate the cost of postage, or email electronic Christmas cards.
• Read Holiday Classics
You can download a copy of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens and illustrate it. Think about gift giving and its true meaning in The Gift of the Magi. Find in the Bible a story about the first Christmas. Look for old English grammar. Remember old fashion words and how words vanish from use and new ones come into being. In addition, read different holiday stories. Celebrate all the way through reading books about how the Christ Child has been welcomed in many lands through many ages.
• Read New Holiday Stories
Read The Legend of Holly Claus, by Brittney Ryan, - readers can explore the dramatic modern myth of Holly Claus, the daughter of Santa Claus.
• Christmas Wish Lists
Practice in handwriting and spelling while making out that list for Santa. Plan a list of what you want to buy or make for others. Create an email to Santa and send it to him at the North Pole.
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