7QT- Christmas Homeschooling

This weeks 7 Quick Takes are about the fun Homeschool Activities that we have been doing this week to learn about and prepare for Christmas! 

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We celebrated Guadete Sunday and also Bambinelli Sunday this week, blessing the baby Jesus's from our nativities.  We had so much fun reading this story, which is new to us from our Advent Stories and also saying the prayer from the book for our baby Jesus's (Bambinellis)!  We also extended our celebration of St Lucia and drove around looking at Christmas lights as a family that night since we had my husband's work party the previous evening!  It is such a fun family tradition!

 



 

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We have been having so much fun with our Saint Peg Dolls that I made with a swap this fall and that we gave as a gift for our children on the Feast of St Nicholas.  Our middle son loves order in his life and is constantly putting things in lines or sorting by color, size, etc.  This week I walked into our living room to find this, all of the little saints lined up!  I am so impressed with having these in our home for only a little over a week how many saints that our children can recognize.  It is also a great way for them to ask questions about saints that they may not know about.  It has been a great learning experience for all of us, plus they are adorable and easy for the kids to handle! 

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We got the Christmas coloring books with our Pre-Kindergarten curriculum from Seton and we saved them to use them during Advent/Christmas time!  They have great narration along with fun pictures to color.  We also have been having fun with the dot marker coloring sheets from 3 Dinosaurs Nativity Preschool Pack!  We love using all of their fun printables when we are looking for things to add to our homeschooling!

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We have these fun puppets from the nativity story that we made with a kit from Hobby Lobby!  They have been a great and interactive way for the kids to act out and re-tell the nativity story!  Our 3 year old really likes the part when the wise men bring PRESENTS!!  This has provided me with a great way to lead into the discussion of what the true meaning of Christmas is!

 

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Do you remember how I said that we like puzzles?  Well one of our favorites is this fun puzzle of the nativity!  We have had a great time putting it together multiple times this week and talking about the nativity story.

 

 

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One thing that was recommended to me when I spoke of my favorite resources for Homeschooling last month was called Catholic Mosaic.  Not only did I pick up a copy of Catholic Mosaic but I also got Christmas Mosaic and we are LOVING it!  A lot of the books listed in Christmas Mosaic were also books that we already had in our book list for Advent/Christmas or books we could easily get from the library.  It has been such a great resource to open up more discussion and activities with great literature!  It reminds me a lot of a Catholic version of Before Five in a Row, which we used last year for our homeschooling!

 

 

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For a fun craft time activity this week we painted Christmas ornaments!  The boys had SO much fun doing these to help get ready for Christmas!  It's one of those craft activities that makes me glad to have stuff to keep it neat and tidy, but I know it makes lots of fun memories and we all had a great time!

 

Well that is some of what we have been up to this week for some homeschooling fun!  I hope you have had a great week of Advent, preparing for Christmas!

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