Advent 2016 lesson plans

These are our plans for Advent 2016. I will probably add a few more cookie recipes as we go along. The asterisks (*) next to the book title shows that we own the books. The (CM) means there is a lesson found in Christmas Mosaic. Since we will spend so much time reading, baking and crafting, we will be doing a lighter load of our regular classes, which is shown on the right hand column.
Obviously, our plans have our own special things added in, such as a birthday and our annual trip to the Nutcracker Ballet!

Happy Advent planning!!

**I'm sorry, when I try to edit, the page looks fine, when I look at the published post, my school work is mixed with all the books. I don't know how to fix it!

Advent week 1

**Daily** Hark, A Christmas Sampler and A Story A Day Til Christmas

Monday November 28

The Golden Cobwebs (Mostly Magic)                      Faith and Life

*Christmas Cobwebs (CM)                                        Spelling

*Cobweb Christmas (CM)                                          Handwriting

*The Cobweb Curtain (CM)

                   bake Spider Cookies

Tuesday November 29

*The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (CM)

*A Christmas Memory (CM)                                     Math

                                                                                      Spelling

                   bake Molasses Cookies                            Handwriting      

Wednesday November 30**Begin St. Andrew Novena**

*Country Angel Christmas                                         Language

*The Legend of the Christmas Tree                           Science     

*The Legend of the Poinsettia

                   make Poinsettia napkin holders

Thursday December 1

*The Legend of the Candy Cane

*Uncle Vova's Tree                                                    Spelling

*Kristoph and the First Christmas Tree                     Handwriting

                   bake Candy Cane Kiss cookies               Math

Friday December 2

*Mickey's Night Before Christmas

*A Very Merry Christmas Alphabet                           Spelling

*The Star of Christmas                                               Handwriting

*Babar and Father Christmas                                     Math

*Beauty and the Beast:Enchanted Christmas  Social Studies

Saturday December 3**St Francis Xavier Feast CCC video***

Advent week 2

**Daily** Hark, A Christmas Sampler and A Story A Day Til Christmas

Monday December 5

*The Christmas Candle (CM)                           Faith and Life

*Why the Chimes Rang (CM)                          Spelling

*The First Christmas Stocking (CM)              Handwriting

                   Make bell shaped and stocking shaped ornaments

Tuesday December 6

*The Miracle of St Nicholas                             Math

*The Legend of St Nicholas                              Spelling

*A Special Place for Santa                                Handwriting

*Santa’s Prayer

*Santa’s Favorite Story

                   **Watch CCC Nicholas The Boy who became Santa

                   Make St Nick ornaments (example Catholic Icing)

Wednesday December 7

*Jingle the Christmas Clown                            Language

*The Clown of God                                           Science

*An Irish Night before Christmas

Thursday December 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception

*Angela and the Baby Jesus                              Spelling

*Mary, the Mother of Jesus                               Handwriting

                                                                            Math

                   **Watch CCC Bernadette

                   *Make Blessed Virgin Mary ornaments w/old cards

Friday December 9

*Where’s the Baby King                                   Spelling

*Trim the Christmas Tree                                  Handwriting

*Christmas Carols                                              Math

*Santa Needs Help                                             Social Studies

                   **Watch CCC Juan Diego

Advent Week 3

**Daily** Hark, A Christmas Sampler and A Story a Day Til Christmas

Monday December 12

*The Lady of Guadalupe                                  Faith and Life

                                                                             Spelling

                                                                             Handwriting

                             *bake Mexican Wedding cakes

Tuesday December 13

*The Nutcracker                                                 Math

*Lucia Morning in Sweden                                Spelling

                                                                            Handwriting

                                                                            Science

                             2 min St Lucy video Catholic.org/saints

                             Santa Lucia song on Catholic Icing

                             Coloring page

Wednesday December 14 ***Jake’s Birthday***

****The Nutcracker ****

Thursday December 15

*An Orange for Frankie (CM)                          Math

*Silent Night (CM)                                           Spelling

*The Christmas Promise (CM)                         Handwriting

                   *bake Orange Snowballs *make spiced orange pomander craft

                             **begin Shelter Seeking

Friday December 16

*Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber

*Christmas in the Trenches                               Spelling

*The Polar Express                                            Handwriting

*The Night of Las Posadas                               Math

                             **Watch Polar Express         Social Studies

                             *make some type of fudge recipe 

*Saturday December 17**Begin O Antiphons**

Advent Week 4

**Daily**Hark, A Christmas Sampler and A Story a Day Til Christmas

Monday December 19

*The Littlest Angel                                            Faith and Life

*The Christmas Bird (CM)                               Spelling

                             **bake nativity cookies with story? Handwriting

Tuesday December 20                                      Math

*A Little House Christmas                                Spelling    

                                                                             Handwriting

                                                                            

Wednesday December 21

*A Little House Christmas                                Language

*Jacob’s Gift                                                      Science

*The Crippled Lamb

                             *bake

Thursday December 22                                   Spelling

*A Little House Christmas                                Handwriting

*Mortimer’s Christmas Manger (CM)             Math

*The Little Shepherd

*Red Boots for Christmas

*The Christmas Donkey (CM)

Friday December 23                                        Spelling

*Mary, Did You Know?                                    Handwriting

*Country Angel Christmas                               Math

*The Christian Origin of the 12 Days of Christmas

*The Real 12 Days of Christmas                      Social Studies

*12 Days of Christmas (2)