{"id":218,"date":"2019-12-17T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2022-11-30T03:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:51:35","slug":"homeschool-during-the-holiday-season-with-bookshark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2019\/12\/homeschool-during-the-holiday-season-with-bookshark.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool During the Holiday Season with BookShark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*I receive the\u00a0BookShark<\/a>\u00a0curriculum in exchange for sharing our homeschool journey with you. All opinions are my own. See my Privacy Policy for details.*<\/em><\/p>\n

I LOVE the Holidays. Bring on Bing Crosby, crafts, decor, and all the treats and goodies. If I could- honestly, I\u2019d skip school for the entire month of December. But, that\u2019s hardly practical. With\u00a0BookShark<\/a>, I\u2019m able to simplify our homeschool routine so that school doesn\u2019t take up all of our time. However,\u00a0we\u2019re still learning<\/em>.<\/p>\n

BookShark\u2019s<\/a>\u00a04 day a week schedule makes fitting in Holiday field trips, shopping trips, and cookie baking possible. We\u2019re able to still do our main curriculum and keep learning- even when all I really want to do is stay in my pj\u2019s next to a fire, drinking cocoa and jamming to Holiday tunes.<\/p>\n

For the month of December, I cut out a lot of our extra work. I do a lot less workbooks and stick to our\u00a0read alouds<\/a>, crafts, and\u00a0hands-on activities.<\/a>\u00a0I also try to fit in more service projects- volunteering, baking cookies for friends, etc.<\/p>\n

This year, we\u2019ll do school (our more simplified version) for the first 2 weeks of December. Then, we\u2019ll take a 3 week break. A MUCH NEEDED break. I don\u2019t worry about falling behind- because we can catch up when we\u2019re snowed in, in January. It\u2019s easy to catch up when you fall a little behind with that built in extra day. It really takes a lot of the stress away!<\/p>\n

I also like to add in some more relevant crafts and library trips where we can load up on more books about what we\u2019re learning in\u00a0our curriculum. For example, right now we\u2019re learning about knights. So we\u2019ve been looking at books about castles and the middle ages. Making it a little unit study of sorts.<\/p>\n

The most important thing about doing homeschool during the holiday season- is to\u00a0not stress<\/strong>. If you fall a little behind, you can catch up later. Holiday parties and plans\u00a0will<\/strong>\u00a0get in the way of your normal routine- just don\u2019t let it ruin your fun. Enjoy this season, and enjoy the extra time spent with family and friends. School is important- but one of the beauties of homeschooling is getting to make your schedule work for your family. I remind myself that over and over. You don\u2019t have to be on a school\u2019s schedule- YOU ARE THE BOSS!<\/p>\n

Go Ahead and Clear the Schedule<\/h2>\n

What are some fun traditions and things that you get to do this time of year, that you wouldn\u2019t get to if you were in public school? We have lots of family baking days and Holiday movie-thons. And we get to do LOTS more traveling around- which also holds lots of learning opportunities.<\/p>\n

How do you homeschool during the Holiday season?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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*I receive the\u00a0BookShark\u00a0curriculum in exchange for sharing our homeschool journey with you. All opinions are my own. See my Privacy Policy for details.* I LOVE the Holidays. Bring on Bing Crosby, crafts, decor, and all the treats and goodies. If I could- honestly, I\u2019d skip school for the entire month of December. But, that\u2019s hardly practical. With\u00a0BookShark, I\u2019m able to simplify our homeschool routine so that school doesn\u2019t take up all of our time. However,\u00a0we\u2019re still learning. BookShark\u2019s\u00a04 day a week schedule makes fitting in Holiday field trips, shopping trips, and cookie baking possible. We\u2019re able to still do our <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeschool","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}