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🎄ADVENT GIVEAWAY!🎄 Enter to win four incredi

🎄ADVENT GIVEAWAY!🎄 Enter to win four incredible Advent resources that you can use with your family for years to come! The winner of this digital giveaway will be announced on the morning of Thanksgiving. Good luck!⠀
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Prizes include: ⠀
1. Nature Study Through the Holidays by Cindy West⠀
2. Classical Morning Time Menu - Scripture, Latin, Poetry, Picture Study⠀
3. Awaiting the Messiah - Advent Study of Handel's Messiah⠀
4. Ordering Our Affections: Advent - A Mother's Morning Basket⠀
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To Enter:⠀
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One winner will be announced in the comments below on Thanksgiving morning.⠀
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November Homeschool Tip #3⠀ ⠀ ’Tis the seaso

November Homeschool Tip #3⠀
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’Tis the season for gatherings with friends and family. I know this year might look different for some, but the season can (and should) still include as much joy and thankfulness as ever. ⠀
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One of the things that has always brought us joy during holiday gatherings is games. We love playing games, teaming up, and getting loud. ⠀
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Whether our Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations end up big or small, we will still carry on with our tradition of playing joyful games. The rowdier, the better because holidays are perfectly suited for excitement. ⠀
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I took some time to pull together a list of our favorite games that can be played with a bunch of people or just a few. And, no matter how many loved ones you’re able to be with this season, you can still find lots of reasons to laugh.⠀
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Click the link in my bio to see the list of games.⠀
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For more November homeschooling tips, visit my friends @karastephensonanderson @marywilsonblog @differentbydesignlearning @rockyourhomeschool and @joyfinderspath 😊⠀
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#homeschoolholidays

Woot! Eli actually got to play basketball tonight.

Woot! Eli actually got to play basketball tonight. 🏀 He loves being on the court and it felt good to do something kind of normal. 🙌🏻⠀
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While this year has been anything but normal, we’re still on-the-go a lot and sometimes school needs to happen on the way here or there. These days, we generally just pack up whatever books or workbooks Eli needs. ⠀
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But, when my children were younger, we had so much fun homeschooling creatively on-the-go. Rather than pack up “all the things”, we replaced the regularly scheduled math, language arts, etc. for exciting substitutions.⠀
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Math might have been oral fact drills or rounding license plate numbers to the nearest ten or hundred. Language arts might have been I Spy spelling words or poetry recitation. History might have been narration of recent readings or listening to an amazing historical fiction book on audio. Science might have been identifying nature specimens along the road or quizzing one another on scientific vocabulary.⠀
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All the fun made errands, trips to music lessons, and long car rides more enjoyable and I could “count” at least some of the time in my lesson plan book!⠀
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Click the link in my bio to see a list of more than 40 carschooling ideas that you can use whether you’re in the car for a few minutes or hours and hours.⠀
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For more tips about homeschooling on-the-go, visit my friends @karastephensonanderson @marywilsonblog @differentbydesignlearning @rockyourhomeschool and @joyfinderspath 😊⠀
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#homeschoolcreatively

It’s November and that means it’s time to focu

It’s November and that means it’s time to focus on Thanksgiving traditions. 🦃 As a homeschooler, our holiday traditions (for any season) have always included lots of picture books. ⠀
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While my kiddos have all outgrown the picture book stage, we all have so many wonderful memories of reading and rereading our “traditional” books together each year. ⠀
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This is a picture of our November stash. It includes much loved books about Native Americans, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving in general, and even pumpkins since they are a big part of fall celebrations. There are others that never quite made it to our bookshelf, but were beloved library books, too. ⠀
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How in the world did we read through a big ol’ stack of picture books like this? One or two books at a time. When reading is part of your homeschool culture, it’s not too hard to get through a bunch in a short period of time. During morning time or afternoon read-aloud, these books became the reading list for the month. If we happened to have other books going (like an afternoon chapter book) these would be morning time reading only. Holiday books make great bedtime reading or independent reading material, too!⠀
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Click the link in my bio if you’d like to see the entire list of our November favorites!⠀
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For more tips and ideas this week, check out these accounts: @karastephensonanderson @marywilsonblog @differentbydesignlearning @rockyourhomeschool @joyfinderspath @ourjourneywestward

CLOSED Winners will be announced in Stories soon.

CLOSED Winners will be announced in Stories soon. Thanks for participating!📚GRATITUDE GIVEAWAY📚
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It’s the perfect season to focus on the character quality of gratitude! Beautiful stories have been one of my favorite ways to help teach positive character traits in my children. I know you’ll love these books to reinforce thankfulness in your home for years to come!
⁣You and a friend can each win all of these wonderful picture books:
*All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
*Elmore by Holly Hobbie
*Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
*Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
*Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
*The Quiltmaker ’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
*Those Shoes by Noah Z. Jones
Also included is an extra-special Kid’s Gratitude Journal by Colleen Kessler!
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Are any of your children exactly the same as each

Are any of your children exactly the same as each other? They may have similar looks and even similar likes, dislikes, or learning styles, but I have a feeling no two have been exact replicas of one another.⠀
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If that’s true, then “cookie cutter” approaches to education probably aren’t going to work - at least for every single one of your children.⠀
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Truly, one of the BEST advantages we have as homeschoolers is the ability to custom fit education for each one of our children. ⠀
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We can slow things down or speed them up. We can add or delete things. We can even do subjects completely outside of the box. It’s all okay!⠀
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And in the end, we have children who actually understand things and even love learning…all because we were willing to give them an education made especially for them.⠀
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This doesn’t mean we don’t ever use curriculum! It means that we use curriculum as a TOOL and not a master. That can seem a little hard at first, but your confidence will grow as you see how much it blesses your homeschool to meet the needs of each of your children.⠀
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If you need a little help finding the confidence to step away from a cookie cutter approach to education, check out my homeschool masterclass about tweaking curriculum. Click the link in my bio.

We couldn’t visit Wyoming without a trail ride f

We couldn’t visit Wyoming without a trail ride for my horse lovin’ girl. What a treat it was for this crew to stroll through the Grand Teton National Park on horseback!⠀
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I’m not so sure @mahaylawest_1 won’t pack up and move there someday. 🐴 I wouldn’t blame her. It was stunningly beautiful. ⠀
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We had a small world moment there, too. One of the men working at @tetonvillagetrailrides had originally lived about 30 minutes from us in Kentucky!⠀
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I’ll share more from our trip out west soon. 😍⠀
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#familyvacation #ourjourneywestward #trailride #horses #naturestudy #naturexplorers @grandtetonnps

Scooby and the gang 🎃

Scooby and the gang 🎃

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