Incorporating Holidays and Special Events into Homeschooling
Holidays and other special days are always exciting for kids. It really doesn’t matter what the holiday is. They always love the festivity and fun surrounding such holidays as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and many other special days. Another great thing about holidays is that they are some of the best teaching tools that you’ll ever get your hands on. When you know how to use them, holidays and special days will allow you to have a great school day with some excited and avid students.
Occasional holidays in home-schooling
Halloween is a wonderful holiday to incorporate into your homeschooling curriculum. This is one of those holidays that hold a lot of interest for students of all ages. As the adult in residence, you’ll probably find that YOU also enjoy the different things that surround Halloween. There’s the history of Halloween that’s pretty fascinating. Stories of how 'trick or treat' came about as well as Halloween customs all over the world are a lot of fun to teach. Of course, then there are ghost stories that you can also tell.
Christmas is another holiday that you can build lessons around. There are so many things about Christmas that you can teach that it may be difficult to know where to start. You may even want to start with teaching your children about Yule and how it was observed centuries ago and compare it to how it’s celebrated today.
Santa Claus is another interesting legend to explore. Of course, if you have small children you probably don’t want to break it to them just yet that Santa really doesn’t fly around on his sleigh led by reindeer and deliver presents to good little boys and girls. However, there are many other historical fun facts about the jolly old man that you can involve your kids in.
Thanksgiving is an excellent way to make history lessons fun. This holiday is perfect to teach all about the Pilgrims and colonization. It’s also a way to teach your children about Native Americans. The First Thanksgiving can be a teaching tool that you can use to get your kids in the kitchen and cooking some of those long-ago dishes that were served during that time.
Easter can be used to learn about how the Easter Bunny and decorated eggs came about. It’s also another cooking holiday so you and your kids can spend lots of time in the kitchen making deviled eggs and all kinds of bread. If you happen to be religious, you can work in the details of Easter that involve religion. It’s really a lot of fun to get them making construction paper bunnies with cotton ball tails and egg trees out of small trees or bushes in the front yard.
Whatever holiday or the special day your children have a definite interest in, you should make that a teaching tool. You can even use their own birthdays by digging into the past for events that occurred on that day. That will really get their attention and keep it.
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