I recently finished revising my "The First Christmas - Let's Make a Book." I love teaching the true story of Christmas. There is so much Santa in the world now and the reason that we have Christmas is lost. BUT..... Santa Claus is a part of the lives of many of our children, so I wanted to add some pages in my resource that addressed Santa in a low key way.
These pages promote a wonderful discussion of how even Santa Claus loves the story of the First Christmas.
After our discussion, I read the Christmas story from my children's Bible. We then take each character in the story one by one and discuss the importance of each one. We end the unit with the understanding that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus and that we celebrate Christmas every year because of His birth.
I like for my students to create their own illustrations for their books, so I show them step-by-step directions for creating each character.
But... I know that time can be limited in classrooms, so I do use coloring pages sometimes!
So that's it for now... If you think this resource is something that you could use OR if you already purchased it and want to download the revisions, click on the image below.
Blessings,
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