December -
Advent - St. Nicholas - Pearl Harbor - Hanukkah - Poinsettia Day- Las Posadas - Wright Brothers - Christmas (games)

• December - ABCTeach - printables, coloring, bookmarks, words, signs
• December 2009 (Read, write think) a connected calendar
• December Days (Education World lesson plans)
• December Holidays and Celebrations - a collection of sites - Sue LeBeau
• December is... - MIKids -
• Monthly Activity Calendar - Enchanted Learning
• Monthly themes - Education Place
• Snowflake fun
  • SnowCrystals - pictures of snowflakes
  • Snowflake Fun - make a flake online
  • Snowflake Designer - create design online - ExplorELearning
  • Paper snowflakes - basic folding and cutting patterns shown
  • Paper Snowflakes for everyone - patterns, stencils, templates, science of, history of and more
• Teacher's Calendar of Events - Education Oasis
• VocabularyUniversity school calendar with thematic ideas, reproducables and interactive (middle and junior high school)

Advent

• Advent calendar for Smartboards - with an online activity for each day
  • Advent calendar online- with each day revealing how Christmas is celebrated around the world
  • Children's Advent Calendar - with a way to live/act the gospel each day - Loyola Press Faith Formation
  • Nativity Scene - Build your own nativity scene by dragging and dropping the characters into the stable. You can print it out too.
• Activites for Advent - catholicadvent.homestead.com - with Jesse tree ideas
• Advent 2009 - with simple prayer and reflection - EWTN.com
• Advent and Christmas Domestic Church.com - great collection of Advent activities including pattern pieces for a Jesse Tree, coloring pages and lots of great ideas
• Advent and Christmas crafts and activities - CatholicMom.com
• Celebrating Advent to Christmas AmericanCatholic.org - with daily calendar
• Resources for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany (RCA.org) with Jesse Tree art
• Resources for Catholic Educators : Advent - list of reviewed sites for Catholic educators and catechists -
  http://www.silk.net/RelEd/- with newsletter
• Season of Advent Catholic.org
• SmartBoard sites -
  • Religious sites and activities
    • Nativity Scene - Build your own nativity scene by dragging and dropping the characters into the stable. You can print it out too.
    • Story of Christmas - A simple story about the first Christmas for young children
• St. Joseph School activities
  • Advent Prayer Card.bmp
  • Advent Prayer card (pdf)
  • Together we teach -- Advent is a time of preparation (pdf)

St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6th)

• Who is St. Nicholas? - around the world, how to celebrate, for kids - St.NicholasCenter
  • activities, pictures to print
• Story of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra - StNicholasSociety.org

Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7th, 1941)

• Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Eyewitness to History.com)
• Pearl Harbor (MSNBC interactive) audio and video - excellent
• Pearl Harbor (Scholastic)
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic) - excellent audio and video

Hanukkah (begins at sundown, Friday, Dec. 11th)

• Chanukah gateway list of sites
• Hanukkah - menorah, dreidels, latkes, recipes, games and more
• Jewish holiday of Chanukkah lists of sites

Poinsettia Day (Dec. 12th)

• History of the Poinsettia
• Legend of the Poinsettia
• National Poinsettia Day
• Poinsettia Facts

Las Posadas (Dec. 16th- 24th)

• Christmas in Mexico
• Las Posadas - Mexico Connect
• KinderArt - cone cup pinata

Wright Brothers (Dec. 17th)

Christmas (Dec. 25th)

• Celebrating Advent to Christmas (Catholic.org)
• Christmas around the world - list
  • Christmas around the world (KidsDomain)
  • Santas.net Christmas Traditions around the world
• Christmas Carol lyrics
• Christmas Carols - test
  • Christmas Carol picture quiz - online game -Brownielocks.com
• Christmas Carol quiz
• Christmas Carol trivia
• Christmas Carol quiz (requires JAVA)
• Chirstmas Carols quiz - Brownielocks.com
• Christmas Trivia - online quiz
• Christmas coloring pages - to print out and color
• Games and online activities (good with Smartboard)
  • Build a Gingerbread House
  • Build a Snowman or Ten Little Snowmen (Starfall)
  • Can you put Rudolph back together?
  • Christmas tree - to decorate and print out (ABCya.com)
  • Christmas tree count - add, subtract and sort Christmas trees - Northumberland UK
    • Santa counting - add various number of Santas and sort
  • Winter bells
• Grinch activities, including coloring online
• Santa's Workshop Elf cam, coloring, crafts
• Merry Christmas (Kids Domain - coloring pages, recipes, links)
• NORAD-The North American Aerospace Defense- tracks Santa Claus on Christmas Eve sometimes busy, be patient

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