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I don’t know about you but I can feel it creeping ever closer, sneaking up on me. Christmas is coming and I love it, though it would be nice if Texas would begin to feel a little more Christmasy. But as December approaches, I begin to look for studies and activities to change up our routine a bit. It is hard to stay focused on the normal things when very little around you seems to be normal.

Because of this we have done various things through the past few year to make December a fun year. Some of our studies?

Christmas Carol studies (Singing Through December) – part one, part two
keep up with our traditions
read seasonal and holiday books and doing activities to go along with them – part one, part two, part three
holiday book baskets

But absolutely one of our favorite things to do is to study the various holiday traditions of other cultures and countries. We have been blessed to get this neat study to take a look at and review titled Christmas Around the World. This unit study has been created by Awe Filled Homemaker.

When you purchase this electronic product, you get an immediate download so you can get started right away. Other than the purchase, you will need paper to print the activities on, a computer to view the parts to read on (if you aren’t printing them), and basic supplies like pencils, crayons, or colored pencils.

The PDF file comes in full-color and is over 70 pages of information, activities and images to ignite the imagination and interest of your students. You can print the pages in black-and-white and they do just fine, especially if you are viewing it in color on a tablet or computer for the flags and fun images. I printed it as a booklet, two pages per side, and double sided. It took half as much paper and still allows plenty of room for my girls (ages 8, 11, and 13) to write.

In this study, you will cover holiday traditions and activities from 21 countries. There are also sections devoted to Advent, St. Nicholas, and the Birth of Christ. Each of the 24 days of study include a three-page set up. Page one is the written information. Page two has some questions to answer and a sentence for the student to complete. Page three is an activity for the student to do, right there on the page, related to the reading. For example, in South Korea they traditionally have a Christmas cake. The activity page has a cake for the student to decorate.

This study will work well for elementary aged students just as it is. For middle school students, they would easily be able to complete it on their own and if you supplement an activity or two, it would be a very rich study. For high school, they could do as the middle school students do, or perhaps, they could be the teachers for the younger students with this study. This is actually what I am considering for my 8th grader – having her find corresponding stories from our holiday book stash or borrowing from the library to go along with each day’s study and being in charge or presenting it each day.

We will probably also enrich the study with a hands-on component for each country, as my girls are very much hands-on learners. We will print a map for each girl to mark the countries on it as we study them, because it is really important for us to know where places are in the world. It helps us to relate. So Christmas Around the World will form the basis of our work and be a large part of it. In fact, this e-product has saved me tons of time in research and correlation of materials. I am really excited to go through this with the girls and traveling the world.

Christmas Around the World is a fun, simple study that you can keep simple or enrich and enhance in a number of ways. If you are looking for something highly effective at keeping some fun in your holiday while continuing on in your schooling this holiday season, this Christmas unit study fits the bill.

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