Day 8 & 9 Advent

Yesterday's Advent activity was to go and see the film The Golden Compass. We went to McDonalds for lunch first and then to see the film. It was really good and we all enjoyed it.

Joke was: What do you have in December that you don't have in any other month?: the letter 'D'!!

Today's activity was to make a snow scene. We had great fun doing this. Todays joke: Who is not hungry at Christmas?: the turkey - he is already stuffed.

Day 6 & 7 Advent

As promised here are the pictures of the boys with their Christmas Hama Bead decorations.

Yesterday's activity was to play an online Christmas game and todays was to do a Christmas Word Search. The jokes were: What do snowmen eat for lunch?: Iceburgers. What bites but has no teeth?: Frost.

Day 5 Advent

Andrew got an unexpected day off school today - the heating was broken. Thankfully it has now been fixed and school is on as usual tomorrow.

Todays activity was to make a Hama bead decoration. It has been ages since we did this, but it was good fun. They are now waiting to be ironed, photos will follow tomorrow.

Today's joke was: What comes at the end of Christmas?: the letter 's'!!

Christmas Journal

I finally managed to get started on my Christmas Journal for Shimelle's Journal 2007. I have done my first page, which is like a Manifesto or declaration of intent. The journalling reads:

I Intend to keep a Journal of my Christmas this year. This will be my second year of doing this.

I Hope that by doing this I can record the things that are different and the things that remain the same each year.

I Believe that Christmas is a special time, which it is good to remember the birth of our Lord Jesus, and the Hope that He brings to our lives.

I am finding the prompts a bit tricky this year as so far they have been the same as last year and I dont want my Journal to be an exact copy of last years, so I may have to change them about a bit and do some pages differently.

The book I am using is a really nice one that I got from Tearcraft. It is tied with red cord and is a lovely red Christmassy colour. I have still to do something on the cover and do a title page and pages 2,3 and 4, but at least I've started.

Day 3 & 4 of Advent

Didn't get around to posting yesterday. In their Advent calendar yesterday the boys got a Christmas code worksheet. Joke was: Why did the snowman cross the road? To melt on the other side!

Andrew's favourite Christmas song is The 12 Days of Christmas, so today they had to type up the words of the song and find pictures or draw pictures to go with it. Andrew has already done his - he loved it. Todays joke: Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain?: he couldn't fly under it!!

Painting Santa

Day 2 of our Advent calendar. Today the boys had to paint a Santa candle holder. They enjoyed doing this. John thought it would be good practice for painting his Warhammer army which he is hoping to get for Christmas.

Todays joke was: What bird can write? - A PENguin!!

Advent

I can't quite believe today is the first of December and Christmas will soon be upon us again. In addition to having their usual chocolate Advent calendars this year, I got this one in B&Q yesterday, altered it slightly. I have put activities in each day and a joke for each day for the boys to do. They have also covered a ring binder folder to make a Christmas Journal to keep the various activity sheets in. When each day has been done I will cover that days drawer with paper.

Todays activity was to complete a Christmas maze which I had downloaded from the Internet. Today's joke was

Where do snowmen go to dance? - Snowballs!

The children are getting on better than me as I have not actually started a Journal yet for this year. I am going to follow Shimelle's Journal, although I will probably change some of the prompts as I did it last year. Hope to get this started either tonight or tomorrow (maybe!!).