Thanksgiving and Christmas Prep

Thanksgiving Quote

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Not Really Thanksgiving Related but In a way it is
The Christian Homeschool Hub has a free unit study for Veterans Day.  There are also alot of neat things free to download for your homeschool.  

Christmas

I have had my children read A Christmas Carol in the past during December.  This site has a quiz that you can give your kids about this story.

Disney's A Christmas Carol is really close to the book. 



It is coming out on November 16 on DVD.

I have a few links for other things about The Christmas  Carol in my posts here and here.

Christmas Craft:
I love all things snowman and Kaboose has a cute snowman made out of jinglebells

You can find the directions for this cute little guy here

Recipe:

I love the Pecan Sandies from Keebler.  I really love anything with pecans in them.

This recipe is from All Recipes and can be found here

Baby It's Cold Outside

Here in Pa it is 25 degrees and the wind is blowing a bit.  But it is nothing compared to what my hubby had to endure during and after the blizzard. 

This is a picture of him trying to stay warm in the below zero wind chill.  He will not make it home probably till next weekend as the storm put him behind several days.  Glad he was able to get a motel room and the lady at the motel made homemade chili for him and the other guests.

Now onto the goodies I have for today.

Here is instructions on how to make interesting ornaments out of straws and a styrofoam ball.  Here is a picture 

This is a site that show you how to make a really neat paper snowflake.

Here is a pdf on how to make easy gingerbread houses.

Grinch coloring pages are are at the this link.

You can practice your math skills here with a Christmas twist.

Make your own wacky Christmas Tale here.

Here you will find a pdf of a bunch of Christmas worksheets.

Here is another pdf worksheet to match up Merry Christmas with the country.

This is a cute idea to keep your children writing all the year through.

The FDIC offers a free cd that can be used for Economic lessons.  You can find it here.

The following are several links that you can use with A Christmas Carol, most of them deal with Victorian age.  Here is a page on different things in the story.
This is more indepth about the Victorian era. This page has victorian crafts just becareful not to click the Google ads.  Here is an online quiz about A Christmas Carol ( I got 100%).

Last but not least is the page from Easyfunschooling for Christmas and Winter activites and units which can be found here.

 Dig in and enjoy.

A Christmas Carol

Ever since my oldest was old enough that I thought that he could read A Christmas Carol I have made it our literature selection for December.  With the new Disney coming out today I thought it was even more prudent that we continue the tradition. I try to add something different in our studies.  So the links I have are all about this subject.

Wired for books has an audio presentation of the novella.

This  is just a little poem that combines A Christmas Carol with a little of Poe"s The Raven.

Here is a Grammar unit with questions, vocabulary and grammer lessons.

This study guide has analysis of each of the staves and a couple of test yourself quizzes

Here  you can order a Bible study based on the novella.

This page has most of the links I have already listed but does contain a link to a vocabulary pdf file and has some ideas for creative writing.

I am looking forward to seeing thew movie and studying this great story!!