Holiday season and home schooling work

The holiday season is a wonderful time to connect with family and find ways to apply regular learning with real life applications.

Instead of using textbooks, we can replace that kind of learning with practical, real-life things such as menu planning, cooking, party planning, decorating, shopping for presents on a budget, making various crafts for homemade gifts, writing Christmas cards, practicing for plays and musicals at church, and the list goes on.
It is hard to do if both parents are working but investing now so that once children know how to write the cards or nengajo, they can do it every year and you will save some time that way in future years. They can help with the cooking for the holidays. They can help with the shopping. It is giving them real life skills and spending time together and enjoying the holidays all rolled in together.

Good luck!

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