{"id":1239,"date":"2017-11-28T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:52:35","slug":"12-days-of-christmas-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Christmas Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an older blog on a Christmas Unit Study that we did in 2012. \u00a0We decorated our tree last night and pulled these decorations out and even 5 years later, the kids laughed and reminisced at how much fun we had during this study. \u00a0Our ornaments are hysterical and very rarely exactly match the song, but man are they funny!<\/span>
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Here is a very quick overview of our study this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Book –\u00a0<\/span>The 12 Days of Christmas by Haidle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Coloring Book –\u00a012 Days of Christmas Coloring Book<\/a><\/p>\n

Activity Book –\u00a0Christmas Activity Book<\/a><\/p>\n

I loved the main book as it explained that the original song was used to explain Biblcal concepts to children and how Jesus was our greatest gift. \u00a0Every day it explained a new concept and tied it to the classic song. \u00a0The coloring and activity books were great to give my girl something to color and my boys something to figure out and do.<\/p>\n

We started our countdown on the 13th, but traditionally it starts on the 25th and goes through Jan. 6th which is Epiphany. It was a great study to do before Christmas as well, and as an added bonus, I didn\u2019t have to get my act together until the 13th of December instead of the traditional advent.<\/p>\n

We went on a 12 Days of Christmas Ornament Hunt on the 12th of December which was amazingly fun. We went to at least 7 or 8 different stores to find an ornament that represents each day. \u00a0Some are traditional, and some are hysterical. \u00a0Some of my favorites are the Dancing Hippo Lady that represents 9 Dancing Ladies or the western dressed cow that represents Maids a Milking. \u00a0We giggled and laughed and joked through the evening and made some wonderful memories. \u00a0When we got home we took gold and silver pens and labelled each ornament and then each day as we read the day, we colored the sheet (mostly) and put the ornament up. \u00a0We also did a small St. Nicholas celebration and a fun St. Lucia Day celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an older blog on a Christmas Unit Study that we did in 2012. \u00a0We decorated our tree last night and pulled these decorations out and even 5 years later, the kids laughed and reminisced at how much fun we had during this study. \u00a0Our ornaments are hysterical and very rarely exactly match the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7xcFa-jZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiningexamples.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}