Families

We wrap up our discussions of the aspects of Creation by learning about families.  It's a gentle way to ease into the season of Advent and stay focused on faith.  We use the time in December to talk about our families and Jesus' family.  We read many, many books about the nativity and also some books that depicted modern day families gathering at Christmastime. 

A simple way to reinforce the concept of families is to make some basic comparisons.  The Bunnies did that by using people shapes to represent the members of their families.  The next day, they followed the same steps to represent Jesus' family. 

We counted the people in each family to make a simple comparison about size.  Each child took their picture home, and hopefully continued the discussions about their family and the Holy Family.