Happy Holidays

This is the time of the year the boys are very excited and distracted because of a certain jolly fellow  SANTA!  What can this Home School Parent do to keep two children in the spectrum focus on learning?  Have every craft, worksheets, books and projects wrap around Christmas and Winter.

Circle Time

Songs   Sing Christmas Carols, Songs about Snowmen, Rudolph and Santa.  Sometimes throw in the Days of the Week song or Number songs.  Super Simple Songs is one of the kids' favorite YouTube Channel!

Story  There are tons of fun books themed with Winter and The Holiday Spirit!  Books have to be chosen wisely.  These boys are easily bored if the story and illustration does not grab them.  We read so many books this December.  5 top books they LOVED:  "The Christmas Crocodile", "How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas", "I've Seen Santa" and "Who Will Help Santa This Year?"

Arts & Crafts

Crafts have to be creative, fun and easy!  Too many steps and the kids become bored and frustrated.  Some of the crafts related to the books we have read.  They made Christmas Crocodile Puppets.  Some of the crafts were just winter theme or made holiday decorations to hang around the house.  The boys and their cousin had a blast with their crafts ; )

Physical Education

Play in the snow and go for a hike when you can while the kids wear their Holiday Hats. ; ) Building a Snowman is also great exercise!

Maine Studies
This Month the boys learned facts about Maine such as Maine is known as "The Pine Tree State" and Maine's motto is "Digiro" (I lead) and identifying the state's shape.  We were trying to look for books about Maine and we ran across this book "Santa is coming to Maine".  The boys LOVE it and it fit well with our December curriculum.

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