How To Make Holiday Learning Simple

As we wrap up the 2024 Homeschooling Through The Holidays series, I wanted to make sure we left you with practical, simple tips that helped you make holiday learning simple.

That’s the goal.

While my fellow contributors and I can look at what we shared with you, we can’t actually decide if we hit the mark.

That’s technically up to you.

Before you walk away from this series though, let me share just one final holiday homeschooling tip with you.

Homeschooling Through The Holidays

While the 2024 holiday series is about half as long as the original Homeschooling Through The Holidays, I think each year has its own special take on things.

This year, we had nine posts over two weeks. These came from seven fantastic contributors who all had their own unique take on holiday homeschooling.

• Dana from The Art Kit shared some simple holiday crafts for kids that are oh, so adorable!
• Kerry from How To Homeschool My Child showed us just how amazing serving others at Christmas can be.
• Sarah from Ten Minute Momentum is helping us reduce gift-giving anxiety this holiday season.
• Kathie from The Character Corner shared her tips for stress free holidays.
• Katie from Katie’s Homeschool Cottage gave us some great ideas for homeschool holiday lessons.
• Michelle from The Homeschool Scientist showed us how to make light up Christmas cards.
• And I’ve written two posts, not including this one. The first introduced Homeschooling Through The Holidays 2024 with a simple yet effective tip and the second was all about easy ways to homeschool on Thanksgiving Day.

And today, we wrap up the 2024 Homeschooling Through The Holidays series with one final post and one final holiday homeschooling tip.

Holiday Homeschooling Tips

We started this holiday homeschooling series with one simple tip – breathe.

Like I said, simple.

Sometimes if we can just take a minute to breathe, we can reset. We can calm the storm that’s boiling up and tame the stress before it overflows onto our family.

By pausing to breathe we tell ourselves that it’s ok and give ourselves a minute to remind our inner self that childhood excitement, fueled with sugar and artificial dyes, is still precious and needs to be protected.

We slow down and pause, remembering how joyous the holidays can be for a child.

And today we wrap up with one final tip.

Embrace the chaos.

How To Make Holiday Homeschooling Simple

Yes, it’s true. My final holiday homeschooling tip is to embrace the chaos.

Understand your home will be cluttered with holiday decorations.

Your meals will be littered with too much sugar thanks to holiday treats.

Your days and weeks will be crammed with holiday events.

Your evenings will be filled with traditions.

And all of this Christmas chaos will be gone in just a few weeks.

Shortly, the tree will come down, the last cookie will be consumed, and the calendar will be void of holiday movies and parties.

Soon enough you’re schedule will return to normal as January brings a fresh start.

So yes, my friend. Embrace the chaos, the clutter, and the extra cookies. Enjoy the season and the time you have with family & friends.

Don’t rush the math lesson or hurry through history. Slow down, breathe, and embrace the chaos because in doing so you will find that most of the hustle and bustle was self-inflicted. Caused by the pressure you put on yourself to homeschool through the holidays without a break while also adding in all the extras.

So slow down, friend, and enjoy the season. 🎄

Happy homeschooling!

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