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Friday, December 25, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Have Yourself A Radiant Homeschooling Year
As the year comes to an end most of us are moving our thoughts to next year.
Wondering what it will bring, where it will take us and our children.
Will the year ahead provide an abundance of learning opportunities that we embrace with open arms
During 2016 I will enter my 10th year of educating my children at home. Ten years, did I even just say that Oh M Gee!
We've had so many wonderful, amazing experiences and opportunities during that time. I know how blessed we truly are and I am thankful for that every single day.
There have however also been times of stagnation, times of darkness, times where everything seems as though it is just all too hard and truly regular school would be a good option.
Thankfully we've made it through those times relatively unscathed and have lived to tell the tale. But there is one thing I have learned through all of the ups and downs and that is the importance of taking care of me.
It needs to be number one on my list, oh yes it does. Without that I am simply unable to serve my family and those around me. If my cup is empty then I cannot possibly be a filler of someone else's cup.
I've met a lot of amazing people in our journey over the past years also, some have become my best friends in the entire world, some are friendships that have moved on, some are acquaintances that we mingle with here and there and others are newer friendships that we are building and growing slowly. Whilst others are purely online interactions.
However the one common thread I see through all of these amazing women, is that of wanting to provide the best possible education and home life for their children. Let's face it we all want that for our family!
But at what cost?
Are we running ourselves into the ground to provide this for our children? Are we here sitting silently suffering depression to provide this for our children? Do we battle with ourselves every day to provide this for our children?
I fear that for many of us we do. I hear it in your whispers when we chat. I see it in your eyes and I can feel it in your hearts. Anyone that knows me personally knows that I am a pretty open person. I am more than happy to chat candidly about our experiences with educating at home. I'm O.K with being vulnerable and for people to see the real me.
In return for my vulnerability I offer a safe place for stories to be shared and told. I am always amazed at the truly generous blessing that I receive again and again of homeschool mums opening up and sharing their stories with me. I don't take that lightly. It is an honor I know.
With each conversation I feel more and more strongly that we need to find more ways to be filling our cups. To be truly connecting with each other in open and honest communications.
I have tossed around so many ideas over the past couple of years on ways in which I can assist in this in some way, my heart continues to pull me into places of service to the community; whilst being aware that whatever it is I am contributing that it isn't emptying my own cup in the process. It's kind of like walking a tightrope at times.
Just a couple of weeks ago I had the thought that not only should I be making plans for the home educating year ahead but that I should also take some time to reflect on the year that has passed.
I am sure that the vast majority of us do this and we do it regularly but how many of us carve out some time purely for reflecting on where we are at with this whole educating our kids at home thing?
So I have put together a little self reflection journal of sorts to help me to truly focus and to get the best out of my reflection time.
The journal is thirty pages long and I would love to share it with you if you think it may be something you would benefit from.
Then we move on to forward planning with just a little bit of dreaming thrown for good measure.
As we progress through the journal we come to pages where we can work on things that are really important to us and our home school.
Finally the journal wraps up with goal setting and monthly reflection pages to ensure all of the glorious hard work you did in the early pages of the journal doesn't go to waste.
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Happy Home Educating,
Kylie
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
15 Christmas Activities ~ Week 3 Link Up
For the weekly Christmas Fun post this week I thought I would round up a portion of the crafts, activities and printables that I have here on the blog.
It's been so much looking back over the years, seeing how tee kids have grown.
A few years back we dug out the dried pasta, gold spray paint and a few old decorations to put together this little Pasta Christmas Wreath Craft.
This was super fun and we still have them in our box of decorations that gets pulled out every year. To see how we put the Pasta Christmas Wreaths together visit this link.
We all love having photo's of our kids around at Christmas and with these we wanted them specifically for the tree. So little Christmas Tree Photo Frames were the order of the day.
Simple to put together and each year we revisit the memories these photo's invoke. To see how we put together the Hanging Christmas Tree Photo Frames visit this link.
You can download them here.
One year when the kids were attending a large gathering of home educated children they put together this delightful Calico Christmas Angel Craft. To see how they made her visit this link.
How about a fun edible craft, making mini Christmas Houses. We chose these over a larger group project that particular year.
This was just as fun and the best part, every one could do their own thing with their decorations. To see how we put together our Mini Christmas Gingerbread House visit this link.
Oh when I saw this post for these Candy Cane Reindeer it truly brought a smile to my face. Aren't they cutest most adorable little things you've seen.
To see how these are put together visit this link.
If you have little ones learning to count to 20 then this Christmas themed number sequence printable might just come in handy.
Download from here.
And whilst we're on the topic of reindeer a few little Christmas Peg Reindeer would rather cute on the tree don't you think?
To check out how to make these babies visit this post.
Have you ever put together a Pom Pom Christmas Tree Garland? Seriously this has got to be the most simple of all the crafts and if you choose the lovely sparkly pom poms they catch the light and look super pretty on the tree.
To see how we made out visit this post.
If your kids enjoy writing Letters To Santa you can find a few simple variations on this printable over here.
Do you have a pile of old magazines laying around the home? How about a spot of paper folding which will end in this rather cool looking Christmas Tree.
See how to make it here.
Print off these Christmas carols here
There's surprisingly quite a lot you can do with the humble pine cone. Check out some of the creations we've done in the past at this link.
Colouring and stamping all in one activity. Grab these to print off here.
Younger children love a bit of detective work and these Christmas matchup cards are perfect for that. First they explore the close up image and wonder what it might be, then they proceed to match it to the image which shows the full photograph.
Download these here.
Your Turn
What Christmas fun activities have you had this week?
Be sure to share them in the link up below.
Have you grabbed a button to help spread the word about the Christmas Fun link up? You can do that here in the introductory post.
Did you miss week one of the link up? Go check that out and all of the fun links here. Week 2 of the link up can be found here.
Be sure to join in and follow along with Christmas Fun on Instagram with the hashtag #homeschoolchristmasfun
Want More Christmas Ideas?
If you are still on the lookout for even more ideas then be sure to visit my Christmas Pinterest Board, which now has over 400 Christmas related pins and is growing daily.
This Week's Feature
These torn paper Nutcrackers are simply delightful. Love it! Thank you so much for linking up to Christmas Fun 3 Giggle Girls At Home.
Add Your Links
I would love for you to link up your Christmas posts, both past and present. All family friendly Christmas posts welcome.
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By linking up you give permission for me to pin your post to my Homeschool Christmas Fun Pinterest Group Board. If you would like to join our group board please let me know, we'd love to you have there.
You also give permission for me to feature your post in future Christmas Fun posts here on Our Worldwide Classroom.
Happy Homeschooling,
Kylie
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