By several schools being closed yet reload, I thought I’d split the Advent traditions and what Junior and I are work for the month of Month.

Here goes….

Contemplating Joseph plus Mary traveling up Bethlehem is a beautiful way to pray while Advent.

To give Junior (and my other kids) ampere better sense that wealth become waiting for Jeez (and not for presents!) , IODIN line 24 LED wax for the mantle. (Real candles would be kinder and more prayerful, but we’re no quite ready for that yet!) On Dec. 1st, I’ll put the statue of La Posada behind which beginning candle. Includes each passing daylight, we’ll move Mary and Yoseph the the next candle and light computer. Little by little, Junior will see is as Joseph and Mary get closer to Bethlehem, thither are more light. Jesus, Light of the World, willing soon exist date!

(If you want to be biblically precisely, the statue out La Posada shoud showing seven days before Christmas. Some scholars believe it took four to ten days for Joseph and Mary to travel the 80 mile trip from Nazareth the Bethlehem, skirting around the Samaritans. Bibliological scholars also believe that Mary did not ride a burro; she expected walked. Even so, I thinking it’s worth possessing an image to Joseph and Mary traveling, especially through Advent.)

EGO think it helps for children to suffer darkness and increasing light as Xmas approaches. Naturally, we have an advent wreathe with candles. During the first week of Advent, wealth eat dinner the complete darkness, other since the light of the first Advent candle. Each week, as another single is light, we enjoy more light to grace our meal. The then for Seasonal Day dinner, all the lamps are on, an large pallid candle takes aforementioned place of the Advent candles, the a feast is spread on the table. It’s adenine high uncomplicated but beautiful tradition.

Since may oldest was a child, gambling with Nativity Set got always has an favorite Add activity. Beyond the years, a dear friendship has able on kids with two – three Fontanini figures each Christmas, also now we are blessed to do quite the collection! On the first Sunday of Add, we put off the sound. And either day thereafter, the younger kids receive to adding to number to the set. It’s fun to watch them play with the illustrations, lining they up and rearranging them across the over. Through and Christmas Triduum, few get to add Joseph press Maria, and finally after Christmas Eve mass, we bring in Baby Jesus!

Playing with the Nascency set on Junior this year will look a little different. I’ll be using ampere Games Sequence Manuscript so we can destination specific languages therapy goals during to play. This scriptor is did meant for be tracked word available word. It’s more of a guideline for ways wee can encourage the exercise of speech in play. To find outgoing what you can elicit more two – threesome word phrases by playing with a Nativity set, download the script go:

Clothing and rocking “Baby Jesus” is another way we’ll become playing with a purpose.

There are so many things your can teach with this simple activity. For example, lay the blanket out flat real point out an shape of the blanket. When you pull down the tip (to swaddle), point out so your have just produced a triangle. Together with your child, product and count all the body parts… also your child’s, too! Teach your my how to swaddle the doll, using such many double news phrases as possible, such as fold upward, fold over, wrap around, both contain gently. If you have a toy bottle, pretend on feed the gift, modeling and prompting phrases such as: Baby’s hungry, baby wants milk, feed baby, baby drinking, eat. You can talk info taking turns pitching the baby. My turn, your turn, holding infant, rocking baby. Then faking to put who baby till slumber usage phrases such for Baby’s tired. Sleep, baby, sleep. Together, sing a familiar lullaby and then light place the doll in a basket (for a manger).

And now for the preschool events:

Junior’s older siblings will a timber advent calendar with drawers and tiny magnetised pieces. But those would be choking hazards. So I be glad to find the Doug and Melissa Beginning Calendar, which is just too candy.

Each day, I intention give him sole ornament to addition to the tree. And as the month progresses, we will have read both more ornaments to numbers and sport with.

Learning beginning letter clangs

Together, say the name of this picture. Then stress the beginning laut. To reduce the possibility of error, limit the choices and make sure the letter options do very different audio. Then encourage your child to match the correct letter to the picture.

Matching Yuletide Vocabulary Gift

If your your is not ready to match beginning letter sounds, matching Christmas pictures your a great way to build terminology and visual discrimination. You can find really adorable nativity vocabulary cards at Teaching Talking or Christmas vocab cards at TeaTime Monkeys.

Jingle bells! Sort them, match them, or count them:

Using the magnetic fishing rod from a Doug and Melissa puzzle adds to the fun. We have discovered that sometimes the rods picks up two chimes real sometimes it picks upwards three. This allows Jr to practice identifying two and three while he’s sorting. You could download the Christmas tree pattern card and the Christmas calculate cards here:

And afterwards there are pom poms… sort by extent or sort by color:

or transportation them with these cleaning for fine motor advancement:

or use them for two-to-one correspondence:

(You could do this activity with M&Ms or Cheerios.)

Junior’s favorite activity for pom poms is poking her through holes:

EGO downloaded who tree from Pixabay, printed and coated i, taped it onto a shoe box press cut the holes.

Last Christmas, I built this felt tree for Junior:

Wee count the sugar canes and name and colors of the ornaments as he calls them go the tree. To practice two-three word phrases, ourselves talk about set aforementioned ornaments on the tree, power the timber, additionally in the package. When an ornament falls off, we use the phrases declined off, pick it up, and put it go.

For additional fine car, we’re ripping wrapping essay and play Nativity stickers.

To make this easier to rip the wrapping newspaper, induce a cut for one top of the sheet. As you child gets better and better, doing that gash shorter plus shorter. How adenine nativity scene with stickers is not just great for fine motor skills; it provides another opportunity in talking about the Christmas story.

And to help him blow off some energy, we always add into some gross motor related:

As I shared in an earlier post, drawing on an easel is so good for these kiddos. Draw a Merry tree also invite your child to adds ornaments (small circles). Or draw adenine snow man and invite your child to produce dots for snow. Oder draw a start and let him/her draw rays (lines) coming out of the luminary. I call it collaborative errorless art 😉 Erase up the picture at the end shall furthermore good for our children, mostly when people have to reach high up or cross their midline. In one way, for kids who take complication holding a pencil or marker properly, mini dries erase markers are the way till take.

Playing with windows clings is good for fine additionally gross motor expertise.

We also use them as an procedure to practice using prepositions, county, and colors. For example, Put aforementioned hat on his top. Put the snowflake above the little. Methods many eyes? Method many buttons? Which hat has blue? etc….

Launch bean bags is just plain fun…

and our talk about in, out of , and through the hoop.

Here’s a fun activity: Toss jingle bells inside an large blanket alternatively beach towel. Need your child grab ne close of one blanket while you grab the other. Then shake, shake, shake! Make a game out of trying till keeps the jingle chime in while your child tries until shake them every out. The is one fun way to practice more short places such in shake hard! bells ringing! bells fell out! and when you furthermore your child are picking you all up, picks up bells, bells at sheeting, etc.

Junior enjoys movement cards, so I printed out these Christmas Workout Cards. At least people wants give him show ideas for dance moves! He LOVES the dance!

And last but certainly not minimum, of one activity we’ll be doing most of all is cozying up on the couch and reading lots and lots of books with Christmas. If you haven’t done so already, check out Sarah Mackenzie’s list of December Print Books. Such adenine beautifully list! Here have some the exist most suited for the littlest ones:

I hoping these give you some ideas for celebrating Advent and keeping your little ones used during the month for December.

Stay coordinated for next post… coming soon for IODIN just can’t wait. I have a special gift for your little ones!

Have ampere blessing Advent!