Unit 2: We Celebrate Jesus' Coming
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Unit 2: We Celebrate Jesus’ Coming
December 13, 2020 • 3rd Sunday of Advent
Extending Activties
The Christmas Countdown Chain l Find a coloring page
November 15, 2020 • 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time to accompany this story in the pages that follow.
Snack ● Serve animal crackers and milk for a snack. Have the Christmas Snack ● Memories are made of tastes and smells,
children try out their talents for serving others and saying “please” and as well as of words and pictures. Enlist the help of aides or parents to
“thank you.” create a variety of Christmas cookies cut in the shapes of the season—
bells, wreaths, gift boxes, and perhaps even the Nativity scene. The
Talent Scrapbook ● Bring magazines to class so the children can
children will enjoy telling how each cookie tells about Christmas.
make a scrapbook or bulletin board of people with special talents—
sports figures, artists, musicians, scientists, persons in government. Be December 20, 2020 • 4th Sunday of Advent
sure they include people of all ages.
Allison and Kevin Listen l Find a coloring page to accompany
Talent Show ● Use the activities on the talent cards to have a talent this story in the pages that follow.
show. The children—individually, in pairs, or in groups—can share the
Snack l Bring Christmas treats such as star-shaped cookies or
talents they have with another class or with parents.
apples cut open to show the star inside.
November 22, 2020 • Solemnity of Christ the King
The Lion and the Mouse ● Find a coloring page to accompany December 25, 2020 & January 3, 2021
this story in the pages that follow. Christmas and Epiphany
Make Greeting Cards ● Gather a selection of magazines, Snack l Celebrate the birthday of Jesus with a simple birthday cake.
advertising pieces, and old greeting cards. Decide with the children who All sing “Happy Birthday” to Jesus.
would appreciate a thinking-of-you card or a get-well card. Provide Visit the Nativity Scene l Take the children to your parish
scissors, glue, and folded construction paper for the children’s cards. You church to see the Nativity scene there. Have the children sing Christmas
may need to write the messages. carols you learned, including the one about the animals. Invite your
Thank-You Letters ● Discuss with the children who will be pastor to join the children and welcome them to the church building.
spending Thanksgiving with them. Ask why these people are special
to their families. This may lead into the children wishing to write brief Christmas Books l There are many wonderful books about
letters to one or more of these people to give them on Thanksgiving Day. Christmas written for young children. Some old favorites are The Little
You will need to be the secretary who writes the letters for them. Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats, Merry Christmas, Strega Nona by
Tomie dePaola, and Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans. If you
November 29, 2020 • 1st Sunday of Advent give gifts to the children in your class at Christmas, consider giving the
inexpensive paperback versions of these Christmas classics.
I Can Wait l Find a coloring page to accompany this story in the
pages that follow.
January 10, 2021 • Baptism of the Lord
Make an Advent Wreath ● Bring branches of cedar for the
children to smell. Make them into an Advent wreath for your classroom. Baptismal Font l Take the children to church to see the
Or make an Advent wreath by tracing around the children’s hands on baptismal font. Ask the priest to be there to show them the font. Have
green construction paper. Cut out the hand shapes and form a wreath on available a baptismal gown and a candle. Repeat the words, “I baptize
a bulletin board. If the class is small, have the children trace around both you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,”
left and right hands. Take your class to see the Advent wreath in church. while Father pours the water.
Snack l Make candles for your snack by putting a pineapple ring on
a small plate and standing a half of a banana inside it. Put a cherry at
one end for the flame.
December 13, 2020 • 2nd Sunday of Advent
Jenny Gets Ready for Christmas l Find a coloring page to
accompany this story in the pages that follow.© 2020 Pflaum Publishing Group, a division of Bayard, Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this page for use by parishes, schools, and families using Pflaum Gospel Weeklies.
Name
The Lion and the Mouse
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Nombre
El león y el ratón
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Name
I Can Wait
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Yo puedo esperar
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Name
Jenny Gets Ready for Christmas
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JOE
MAM
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PAPÁ
ABUE
Jenny se prepara para la Navidad
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The Christmas Countdown Chain
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FELIZ
NAVIDAD
La cadena del conteo para la Navidad
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Name
Allison and Kevin Listen
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HARINA
Allison y Kevin escuchan
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