HOMESCHOOLING THROUGH THE SEASONS
I wrote recently about homeschooling during the different seasons of life and how we can lean into those seasons. Ebbing and flowing through the natural seasons is also a sweet gift of homeschooling.
In many places, the cold and dark environment of the winter season can be a tough adjustment. But if we embrace the beauty of winter and its cozy gifts, we can find just as much joy in our homeschools as we do in the excitement of Spring, the fun of Summer, and the comforting familiarity of Fall.
One way to embrace the season of winter is to keep doing many of the things you love, the anchors of your homeschool. If your family enjoys nature walks then bundle up and keep walking through the winter.
Maybe walks are shorter, require more preparation, and are perhaps not quite as frequent, but the continuation of the special connection with nature and each other will keep you going through the colder months. Turn your mud kitchen into a snow kitchen, try a winter sport, and embrace the snow!
Maybe where you live it gets so cold that it’s hard to get outside much with littles. Maybe it calls for embracing the Hygge way of living—creating a cozy atmosphere inside your home—making and lighting beeswax candles, simmering stovetop potpourri, baking bread, having a cozy fire—in or out of doors…
Maybe the seasons don’t change much where you live and you crave the changing seasons to break up the monotony. Study the snow, make sensory snow, and learn all about the parts of the world that get cold and snowy. Read books with settings that are cold and snowy and imagine what it would be like.
Wherever you are, from the Rockies to the desert, lean into the seasonal rhythm that allows for a fresh change in your homeschools, and slow down long enough to savor it.
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Christina
ABOUT CHRISTINA from ROOTED HOMELIFE
Christina is a wife and mom to five children, ages 1-14, with experience as a public and private school teacher and homeschool mom. Her passion for homeschooling and encouraging moms nowhere they are in their journey came together with the creation of her YouTube channel, Rooted Homelife. She shares all aspects of authentic, international motherhood through humor, faith, and a variety of resources for moms!
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