Whether you’re following the homeschool curriculum’s scope and sequence to the letter or unschooling and winging it, you may want to incorporate holidays like Presidents’ Day into your child’s homeschool lessons.
Presidents’ Day 2021 falls on February 15th this year, so if you’re looking for a way to tone things down after the sugar-high that is Valentine’s Day, the following 7 homeschool lessons for Presidents’ Day should keep kids engaged and interested.
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Incorporate these ideas and utilize various resources to help bring your homeschool lessons to life.
5. Incorporate math into your Presidents’ Day homeschool activities with lessons about money.
Younger children will enjoy sorting coins by type and identifying the presidents on each coin. Education.com offers several free printable money worksheets. Teach your kindergartener the value of each coin and introduce them to presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington in the process.
6. Add in copywork and dictation as part of your weekly homeschool activities.
Copywork allows children to help strengthen students’ grammar, usage, and mechanics skills. Compile a few famous presidential quotes to use as copywork for your student. You can either dictate to them or have them copy the passage from print.
Author and homeschooling expert Julie Bogart includes copywork and dictation as part of her Brave Writer Lifestyle curriculum. “Dictation, simply put, is the practice of reading a passage aloud to children while they transcribe it as accurately as possible on their own sheets of paper,” she wrote.
Presidential biographies bring the past to life for kids:
7. Learn about the presidents by reading their biographies.
The Who HQ series of books feature biographies of famous people as well as information about important historical sites.
Homeschooling mom and curriculum designer and creator Jessica Waldock incorporates the “Who Was” books into the homeschool unit studies she creates. In her George Washington unit study video, Jessica shows how parents can use her unit studies to create a comprehensive homeschool lesson plan. “These unit studies are great for the entire family; elementary up through high school,” she explains in the video. “There is something in there for everybody.”
There are several “Who Was” books from the publisher Who HQ and they regularly add new titles to their lineup. They also offer a variety of printables and activity sheets on the website. Currently, there are over 15 books available chronicling the lives of presidents and first ladies including Vice-President-elect, Kamala Harris.
