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Does anyone have an Advent Unit Study they care to share? I'm looking for ideas! Advent gets hectic so I'm doing my homework early!
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Julie
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Hi Julie!
We've had a thread on Advent Planning going on in the Living Faith section. Note Elizabeth's post about Advent Reading List and the Tomie de Paola Advent Unit.
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Great Thanks!!! Looking forward to it!
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Jenn:
Can you recommend any of the plethora of St. Nicholas Books that are recommended by the St. Nicholas site as especially good? Did what I just asked even make sense?  I've never seen any of these. And oh boy, would I ever love that statue! If only the cookie cutters, stamps, and other assorted little things were a little less pricey, they would make good stocking stuffers.
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Tina P. wrote:
Jenn:
Can you recommend any of the plethora of St. Nicholas Books that are recommended by the St. Nicholas site as especially good? Did what I just asked even make sense? I've never seen any of these. And oh boy, would I ever love that statue! If only the cookie cutters, stamps, and other assorted little things were a little less pricey, they would make good stocking stuffers. |
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Tina,
I would love that figurine, too! I've had my eye on some nice St. Nicholas statues...but alas! Not yet!
I have more adult St. Nicholas books than picture books, so I asked the same question on this thread. From this annotated list I now have (and recommend)
• Mayer, Marianna, The Real Santa Claus, Phyllis Fogelman Books (Putnam), 2001
The story of St. Nicholas, the real Santa, richly illustrated with classic art from the masters
• Whelan, Gloria, The Miracle of Saint Nicholas, Ignatius Press, 1997
Story set in Russia tells of the enduring faith of a small village as a young boy's dream for the church evokes a miracle
• Schindler, Regine, Saint Nicholas, St Paul Publications, England, 1990
Tells the story of Father Christmas and how to give caring gifts that reflect Jesus' care for others (not as highly recommended as the others)
From this page we have Amy Welborn's little pamphlet and How St. Nicholas Became Santa Claus: The True Story, PROJECT BOOK. Even though St. Nicholas center site has so many projects and coloring pages, this book does have original ideas not covered on the site.
We have traditionally "done it up big" for St. Nicholas, so I've been adding St. Nicholas "accoutrements" the cookie cutters gradually. The Austrian and Polish designs are really nice, but big. Not practical if you're trying to make as many cookies as possible.  I'd stick with the mitre! But if you want expensive, you should check out House on the Hill for cookie molds and you'll think St. Nicholas Center is a steal!
I got the St. Nicholas hand puppet last year as a gift and it's fabulous!!! So instead of having a "person" dress up as St. Nicholas, I had a puppet show with his visit.
Over the years I've added St. Nicholas Christmas ornaments and statues (one year they had some at the Dollar Store!) I don't put my Christmas tree up early, but I hang the St. Nicholas ornaments around the house...and actually put the statue inside my Advent wreath on the table. Probably not liturgically correct, but he's safer in there!
Kelly has some of the best ideas for St. Nicholas....
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I meant to forward this site for Advent study:
Funschooling Unit Studies
This offers a little variety for Advent. Hope this helps someone.
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We're using the Advent unit calenda this year from Teaching Mom.com. We've used so many different ones in the past, including the Funschooling units in years past as well.
Here is what we're using: Teaching Mom Advent Calendar unit study
I'm also going to use the Names of Jesus unit study from the Funschooling Unit Studies only for the names, and have the kids design their own Chrismons. They asked if they could do that, and I thought that was a neat thing to do, so I wanted something with the Names of Jesus to use as a guide, and that will work great! 
I'm using the study formatted like this as a daily format (pretty much).
SCRIPTURE VERSE/DEVOTION- (using a mix of hers sometimes, and other things other times)
JESSE TREE- (Scripture and explanation starting December)
VOCABULARY- word per day (words when skipped previously...I’ll type them all for their notebooks, but we’ll just discuss)
ART/ART HISTORY- we’ll do what she has written, and sometimes deeper, sometimes just simple and discussion)
NAMES OF JESUS (Art as well)- we’ll use the Caroe Names of Jesus unit study from Dec. 1st through 24th, and they’ll come up with their own Chrismon for each name/day. They’ll make these into a notebook for part of their art binder.
MUSIC/MUSIC HISTORY- we’ll do the carol she has written, just read what’s there
LITERATURE/READING- we’ll read a Christmas book every day, and also incorporate Christmas poems as well. Their writing will be incorporated into this time as well
HOLIDAY HISTORY- we’ll just read what’s written every day
GEOGRAPHY/CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD- we’ll follow her direction here as well, sometimes simple, sometimes more deep. One other thing we’re going to do during our study for this subject is to make a big poster with *Merry Christmas* written in all of the different languages of our family heritage (Filipino, German, Irish, Scottish, English (well, those three are all English), French, and Polish) to hang up as part of our decorations. :o) We’ll make a sheet up with the countries we study during this study with *Merry Christmas* in those languages for their notebooks!
LIFE SKILLS/HOME HOLIDAY PREP- will just be what we usually do around the house to prepare for Christmas; baking, cleaning, decorating, gift making, etc. We won’t follow hers specifically.
I’m pretty happy with what we’re doing, and how I’m tweaking it for the older kids. :o) Having older students, they also have other subjects they need to keep up with, so we can’t just drop everything to only do our Advent/Christmas study. :o( BUT, I think this is a great way to do one still, yet allow them to pare down their other stuff, but keep up with the basic subjects, so we're not getting far behind.
So far, we love this! I think it's excellent, and has been a blessing!
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I agree, Tracy ... the Teaching Mom calendar looks excellent. I'm also going to use it as a hook for our Advent study. I was planning to do St.Nicholas, but left it too late to order the books  . My dds are younger, so I'm not going to do as much, and I want to keep it light and fun (and unstressful for someone just beginning to come out of the first trimester fog!). I made a list of the different topics the calendar covered and chose the ones I wanted to do. Then I rescheduled it all, so that our weeks have themes and so that I could tie in other books and ideas I wanted to use. We only started yesterday, as it took me half the week to get into gear. This week we are doing the Twelve Days of Christmas and English Christmas customs. Next week will focus on Asia and eastern Europe - Russia (icons), Greece, St.Nicholas (Turkey / Holland - OK, that one isn't eastern Europe!), India, Japan. The third week will be Scandinavia - Jan Brett's books, reindeer, snow, St.Lucy's day - and the fourth week the Nativity story - Bethlehem, the shepherds, the magi and so on. I made a note of which calendar day (or days) tie in with each theme, and then I'm picking resources to go with whatever I want to cover that day. Mostly we are going to use the Christmas Round the World, craft and Christmas fun sections, with carols and art thrown in. Also I have a pile of picture books and stories to go along with them.
Alongside that we are reading Tabitha's Travels (one of Arnold Ytreeide's Advent books), and doing the blessing box idea that someone posted here. I can't find the Jesse tree symbols or the little tree we use, and don't have the energy to turn the garage upside down looking for them, so we are skipping the Jesse tree this year.
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