A Four-Week Christmas Term. Real Subjects. It Still Counts.
December breaks most homeschools.
The regular plan limps along beside baking, travel, and relatives, and by mid-month you have either abandoned school and feel guilty or you are pushing through a history chapter nobody is listening to. There is a third option. Set the curriculum down for four weeks and run a December term instead. Same subjects, same rigor, seasonal content. Instead of the next chapter of American history, study the American Christmas: how a holiday once banned in parts of this country became its largest.
Inside:
- Four weeks across seven strands: history, literature, science, mathematics, geography, art and music, and service
- An American history spine: colonial America, the century that invented it, trees and cards and catalogs and electric light, and the modern Christmas
- Where To Look: real sources, named, because “look it up” is not an instruction
- Twelve two-page Fourfold entries, plus four drawing entries for younger students
- Draw It pages facing every history week
- Reading lists for read-aloud, independent readers, middle grades, and high school
- A parent reading strand, with books for you and your own entry pages
- A kitchen lab, a December budget, and design pages
- Weekly plans and records
- Hours and subject coverage logs, so the month counts as instruction
- A traditions keepsake page
This is not a month off. It is a month of school your children will remember.
What you receive
- A printable PDF, 94 pages including the cover, 8.5 × 11 inches, designed to print clearly in black and white on a home printer.
- A family license: print as many copies as your household needs, for every child, every year.
- Your file is available only from the download page. It is not sent through a link in your order confirmation email, so please download it from the download page.
A first edition, shaped by the families who use it
Written and created by Gina Steffy. This is a first edition, and we would love your help making the next one better. If a page is unclear, something is missing, or an idea would work better at your table, please tell us. We welcome every suggestion and will build the best of them into future editions.
Every purchase includes free updates. When a new edition is released, you will receive it at no additional cost.
Lisa Nehring and her husband, Dr. David Nehring, a Clinical Psychologist, and Biblical Scholar speak together on a wide variety of topics, including education, classical education, vision, mission, parenting, marriage, and more.
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