... my true love gave to me, 12 drummers drumming.
We talked today about the 12 points of the Apostle's Creed. The boys then finished up their 12 Days of Christmas books by coloring a nativity picture for the last page of the book.
Then we began reading this book. Since it goes through the alphabet and gives history and background for each subject, we are going to stretch out the reading throughout the rest of this week. For example, the C stands for Children, Chimney, Candles, Cookie Crumbs, Christmas tree, Christ Child, and Cards. The book then explains that Christmas was originally written Christes Maesses in the Old English, meaning Christ's mass. Candles symbolize the Christ child who is called "light of the world" and what tradition the candle has. There is some background on carols that were sung around the year 129 and by 1200, monks sang carols to reenact the nativity story. Then it tells a little about Charles Dickens who wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 and finally that Louis Prang printed the first Christmas card in the US in 1874.
We are now officially on Christmas break!!!!
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