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Christmas around the World

Christmas Around the World: Books, Crafts, and Recipes

November 27, 2016 by Amy Leave a Comment

One upon a time there was a mama with two little girls and a baby boy.  Being a homeschooling mama, she was idealistic and energetic, and, above all, enthusiastic.  Christmas was coming, and she wanted to do something fun and educational with girls–something that really captures the excitement of the season, but because she was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education Tagged: Arts and crafts, book related crafts, Christmas around the World, Christmas Book Basket, Christmas books, Holiday

Christmas Around the World: Italy

December 7, 2012 by Amy 1 Comment

  This year’s first stop on our ongoing Christmas Around the World tour was Italy.  I chose Italy because last year when I solicited book suggestions for Christmas stories from other countries, Italy was one of the suggestions.  This turned out to be a fun pick, and though things were a little more disjointed this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education, Homekeeping, Juvenile Fiction, Picture Books Tagged: Arts and crafts, Christmas around the World, Holiday, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Picture Books

Christmas Around the World

December 4, 2012 by Amy 3 Comments

We’re on year three of this fun little Christmas tradition here of picking a country or two each year in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas and making them the focus of our “extra” homeschool studies, and I wanted to make one big round-up post for what we’ve done so far.  As I post about this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education, Juvenile Fiction, Picture Books Tagged: Christmas around the World, Holiday, Juvenile Fiction, Picture Books

Read Aloud Thursday–Christmas around the World::Sweden

December 22, 2011 by Amy 10 Comments

  This year we continued with the tradition we began last year at Christmas time of studying a country’s Christmas traditions.  I was overly ambitious last year and planned to study several countries.  This year I lowered my expectations (which is almost nearly a good thing as far as I am concerned) and planned to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education, Picture Books Tagged: Arts and crafts, Christmas around the World, Holiday, Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday

Read Aloud Thursday–Christmas around the World: Russia

December 23, 2010 by Amy 2 Comments

  I am a child of the 1980s, so it’s sort of difficult for me to even say Russia without defaulting to the U.S.S.R.  😉  I took a year of Russian language study in high school, and this (along with the wonderfully charismatic teacher under whose spell I had fallen) birthed in me a love of the language and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education, Juvenile Fiction Tagged: Arts and crafts, Christmas around the World, First Grade, Holiday, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

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