Christmas School 🏫 Day 2

   I had to go grocery shopping so it was cut a bit short today. We did get a lot done though! I'm tired so not a long post for tonight. Hope you're all enjoying this time of year and drinking allllll the coffee and hot chocolate 🍫!!!

Day 1 Christmas School

    We are all so excited to start our Christmas school!!! Even though we usually don't start until December we wanted to start off the week right. While I always have it in my head the way things will go it never will go that way. With a 2 year old and a hard 8 year old it's just the way it is but...... we did it!!! 

I woke up and made them homemade hot chocolate!!! Then we started off with of course prayer and pledge and the days news for kids. If you'd like link to the news I use for them post below. It's only 10 minutes but keeps them in the loop while being kid friendly. After that it was reading and worksheets. Then we did this...https://youtu.be/u9kec_lZDMw

We read some more( I bought the winter bundle to do with them, we started with the baking unit) . Then we decorated cookies!!!!! All in all a great way to kick off Christmas school. I will post more of our traditions as we continue our Christmas school post. Post what you do to enjoy the season to the fullest! We will be doing math twice a week ( our set curriculum) but math is always mixed in everything we do. 

Christmas School

   Sooooo excited.... it's almost December and our start of Christmas 🎄 school. Stay tuned for Christmas homeschooling post.....

Busy, busy

 I had been meaning to blog alllll week and things were crazy. I'm adjusting to my oldest daughter still at home getting a job. So it's harder wrangling the 2 year old while homeschooling.  Whew, he's a handful!! 

 But in other news we had a wonderful start to the week with Charlie Brown Thanksgiving day.  That's the beauty of homeschooling, learning AND having fun! We read the book, watched the movie along with extra mayflower one, and did crafts! Oh and ate for lunch that Charlie Brown made in the movie. 😉 We went over the years they landed at Plymouth and when the first Thanksgiving was. 

Then the rest of the week was normal school schedule mixed in with fun read alouds I posted before. This week I plan to stop all other school and just read books. Focus on the Indians and pilgrims and how we all can work together even if we aren't exactly the same. And focus on gratitude this week. And of course eat some yummy food Thursday and soak up the day with family. 

I'd love to hear what your plans are for this week!! 

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Just breathe

 So for some reason every since Fall began my kids have been crazy!!! Don't know if they thought fall meant falling off the deep end or what but goodness. Fighting, arguing, not wanting to get up, etc.... But I've just been pushing through. 

 Last night my husband said why don't you take them to the park tomorrow since it'll probably be the last day it'll be this warm and beautiful. All I could think of is the school we needed to do and the things I was behind on. 

 As I took them along for my Walmart pickup this morning and the arguing started I just told myself just breathe. And then I got to thinking, maybe that's what they also needed. So instead of coming home putting up groceries and doing school , we put up groceries and then went to the lake with fast food in tow. And ya know what?!? I feel so much better. 

 I also saw how really incredible my kids are because twin girls wanted to play in the game of tag they were in. They were only 2 years old and all the kids even up to my older ones were sooooooo sweet to them. It reminded me we might be doing an OK job with these kids after all. I mean one of the biggest things I want my kids to learn is to always be kind and never exclude others. So while there I thought wow, we just needed to breathe! So, homeschooling mama when things are chaotic and crazy maybe we just need to remember to take a breather.For our sake and our kids!!! 

( Brittani and Levi weren't with us because Brittani was working at her new job and Levi was working with his dad)

 

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