{"id":1261,"date":"2009-12-10T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2009-11-25T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:13:29","slug":"start-christmas-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"stART: Christmas in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Remember family traditions during the holiday season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Christmas in the Country<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">, by Cynthia Rylant and Diane Goode<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0crayons and\/or markers<br \/>\n<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">This book tells the story of how a family gets ready for and celebrates Christmas. Although timeless in many ways, the story is set in a rural community many years ago.\u00c2\u00a0As you read the story with your child, ask her to identify things that are similar to how your family celebrates the holidays. What things are different? Can your child find ways she is similar and different to the girl in the story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">1.\u00c2\u00a0Interview older family members or family friends about the ways they celebrated the holidays when they were young.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00c2\u00a0How are these celebrations the same and different from the way your family now celebrates the holidays? Did they have any family traditions that continue to the present day? Did they do anything special that your child might want to revive as a new\/old family tradition?<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00c2\u00a0Based on these conversations, encourage your child to draw a picture showing some of these traditions. This picture could make a special gift for an older relative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops concepts of similar and different<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0inspires discussions of family traditions<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember family traditions during the holiday season. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Christmas in the Country, by Cynthia Rylant and Diane Goode \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0crayons and\/or markers This book tells the story of how a family gets ready for and celebrates Christmas. Although timeless in many ways, the story is set in a rural community many years ago.\u00c2\u00a0As you read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,67,16,15,9,49],"tags":[394,181,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}