Since the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, the month of June — Pride Month — is dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ culture and supporting equality in the LGBTQ community. Our family homeschools year-round, so incorporating Pride Month into our homeschool lesson plans is a fun way to kick off our summer learning.
These 8 homeschool lessons for Pride Month 2021 will help you create an inclusive learning environment for your own family.
Homeschool lessons: Pride Month for kids
Hands-on lessons: Pride activities and books for kids
Picture books and hands-on activities can help your student understand and empathize with what they're learning about. The following resources are a great addition to homeschool lessons around Pride Month.
6. Couple these LGBT books for kids with at-home Pride activities you can do with your kids.
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
- Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack
7. Incorporate gender equality lesson plans and tackle LGBTQ+ discrimination issues.
The Anti-defamation League (ADL) website offers a variety of resources on gender equality for kids and provides tools and strategies to help educators bring LGBTQ Pride to their students and classrooms.
8. Create Pride flag art with your children.
Last year, Mom.com contributor Bryanne Salazar shared 20 Ways to Celebrate Pride Month. One way she suggests is with a rainbow flag. "Displaying a rainbow flag on your property or on a bumper sticker on your car is a quick and easy way to identify yourself as a member or ally of the LGBTQ community," she wrote. The Duxbury Free Library has pinned a variety of rainbow crafts for kids and parents to work on together to celebrate Pride.
In 2004, I was honored to be invited to what was likely one of the very first same-sex weddings in the country. As a mom of three children under the age of 6 at the time, I was sadly unable to find childcare to attend my co-worker's wedding, but I still look back at my home state with pride — Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to amend same-sex marriage laws.
So now, with Pride Month 2021 upon us, I share that story with my youngest as we delve into our homeschool lessons and Pride activities, and continue to do the work to help make his home state of South Carolina a bit more inclusive every day.
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