Below is the text our teachers will be using during Morning Meeting during our 12 Days of Peace. In your newsletters this month will be more programs we’ll be doing this month to teach our scholars about generosity, including Angel Fish Families and Book on Every Bed.
In Iceland, the children celebrate Yuletide, a 13-day long tradition leading up to Christmas. Thirteen mischievous trolls called Yule Lads come out at night to play. Every night, children put their best shoes by the window and a different Yule Lad visits, leaving gifts for nice girls and boys and rotten potatoes for the naughty ones!
They also have the Christmas Book Flood in Iceland. Every Christmas Eve, friends and family give books as gifts to each other and spend the holiday eve reading. Children in Iceland LOVE to read! Although Iceland is a small country of only 330,000 people—Washington, D.C. has more than twice as many!—there are more writers, books published, and books read in Iceland than anywhere else in the world.