Tis the Season 2025: Christmas School for the Upper Years
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! Today, I’m sharing about our Christmas School plans for 2025! In today’s post, you’ll find our book, artist, composer, and poetry plans! I’ll even share a book I plan to read myself. Join me for: “Tis the Season 2025: Christmas School for the Upper Years”!
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Why Christmas School?
I’m not generally a theme-based planner. We’ve never used a unit study. But we’ve always just kind of fallen into reading Christmas-themed or feeling books from the end of November through the beginning of January. After all, our celebration of the birth of our Savior ought to capture our attention. That being said, I never formally planned anything for Christmas School aside from Bible readings. I just found good and beautiful books, and we read them. We listened to Christmas carols and hymns on repeat. Handel’s Messiah was the background music for baking and present-wrapping. Our Christmas School has just grown really organically over the years, and it’s now filled with simple, precious traditions.
Christmas School in the Upper Years
Since we’re now in the Upper Years of homeschooling, 8th grade this year, the idea of Christmas School has taken a bit more intention. Still, although it’s required a little extra effort, I’ve really wanted to continue with it. In the early years, you can read stacks upon stacks of easy-to-find themed picture books during those weeks. As children grow, and books get longer, it can be a bit more challenging to find the books for this season, but I was determined to do it! Although not every book on our Christmas School list this year is explicitly Christmas focused from beginning to end, I think they still fit the season.
Our Christmas School 2025 Plan
Bible – Although I don’t have it ready yet, I will create a Family Worship Guide for us to follow. I will post it here whenever it is ready. We will read from the book of Luke, too.
We started to read Charlotte Mason’s Savior of the World Volume One this term. We started in Book Two of Volume One, so, for Christmas School, we will read Book One: The Holy Infancy. Since there are 18 poems in Book One, we will read about one poem per day.
This book is incredibly well done. From “Hallelujah” we will get, among other treasures, our poetry, hymn, and Bible memory work.
This is an obvious choice, but we’ve never read it. I’m so excited!
Although not Christmas-themed from beginning to end, this book begins at Christmas. It’s also perfect for this season of life for us.
Again, we will listen to Handel’s Messiah this year. We will read The Handel’s Messiah Family Advent Reader along with it. Plus, we will include this poem by Frances Ridley Havergal.
Closing + a Book for Mom!
Although I read along, and thoroughly enjoy, our Christmas School books each year, I like to try to have a little something for myself to read with my early morning coffee. This year I’ll be having my Christmas coffee with Chesterton!
Thank you for reading: “Tis the Season 2025: Christmas School for the Upper Years”! Do you still plan Christmas School in the Upper Years? If so, share your ideas in the comments below!
