Free Christmas Advent Calendars and Printables

I've been homeschooling for a long, long time. Did I say long? And I've created a few worksheets and printables over the years to accommodate whatever need we had at the time. You can check out some of my printables over on scribd.com.

But this post is about the Advent Calendars and Printables for Christmas that I am offering. They are embedded here for your enjoyment! The links on the bottom of the printables are all wrong so disregard. But the copyright still stands. It's free to use just don't sell it please. And if you decide to pin it on pinterest I wouldn't be opposed :)

I hope your family enjoys them as much as we do.

This one is the activity calendar. We placed each in an envelope and we open them each day and do the activity.
Activities Advent Calendar

This is the Santa's beard calendar. Each day we glue a cotton ball on the picture till the final day when Santa's beard and hat will be fluffy and white. Our kids don't really "do" Santa but we've had fun with it.
santa countdown to christmas

And finally our family favorite which we've done for years now is the Countdown to Baby Jesus! It's pretty self explanatory. You glue/tape a star on each day until it's Jesus' birthday!
Christmas Advent Calendar

Gettin' prepped for the school year!

Well, it's that time again! Time to start gathering the curriculum and trying to schedule the upcoming school year.

We homeschool. I think I mentioned that. So I don't know about anyone else but I think that because we have taken the summer off it's gonna be hard to transition back into "learning". Not that we stopped learning. We just switched subjects. Math got switched to beating Lego Star Wars II on the Game Cube. Spelling got switched to building Lego structures. Reading the classics got replaced with a newfound love for "junior" graphic novels.

Oh well.

I remember with fondness the summer I got hooked on Scarlet by Alexandra Ripley. I read for hours and hours. I think that's the only book I had time to read that summer. It was long.

Anyways, back on topic. I'm planning our school year. Here's what I've got so far:

For the 6 yo and 8 yo
History- M/W/F

• Story of the World (Ancients) story book
• Story of the World (Ancients) Activity book on Fridays with our group
  
• Our Young Folks' Josephus-Antiquities of the Jews and the Jewish Wars

Math- daily

• Saxon 1 or Math u see(6yo)
• Math u see (8yo)

Spelling- daily

• A Reason for Spelling (8yo)
• Still not sure for the 6yo

Science- T/Th and Friday Lab

• Abeka Exploring God's World
• Science Experiments on Fridays with our group

Bible-

• Awana on Wednesday Nights
• Scripture Memorization
• Bible Stories

Anyways, that's what I've got right now.