Five Things to Know Today: December 16

1. Mater Dei Catholic School students will showcase a live Nativity in front of St. Stanislaus Church from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. There will be live animals surrounding the manger scene. Christmas carols and other music will be sung. Canned food donations will be accepted at the event.

2. A sold-out pancake fundraiser for Penndale Middle School student and Lansdale resident Matthew Knoebel, 12, who is battling leukemia, is being held at Applebee’s in Hatfield from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

3. Today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. is the final course of “The Movies: Meanings & Methods,” taught by movie critic Bill Wine, at Montgomery County Community College’s Advanced Technology Center in Blue Bell.

4. It’s a Rat Pack Christmas as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. impersonators come to Sellersville Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and $40.

5. There’s a $15 prenatal yoga class at 10 a.m. at Art & Soul Yoga and Pilates, 1690 Valley Forge Road, Worcester.