ADVENT Advent, from the Latin "to come" is the period including the four Sundays preceding Christmas. With quiet anticipation we enter into the advent season with a candlelit journey inward at the Advent Garden. One at a time, each young child walks through the spiral of evergreens to the center of the Garden, lights his or her candle, then places it on the returning path and picks up a gold star-a reminder of the dark journey through winter ahead. Weekly assemblies and daily classroom experiences through the Advent season prepare the children for the winter holy nights.