Winter Preparations in Our Homeschool

I was inspired to write this post after visiting the Homeschool Bliss Channel at Blissfully Domestic. The post “Age Appropriate Chores” reminded me of how our family has been working together lately.

Winter is fast approaching, so we are busily trying to get ready for it. It is a big job. We have wood to stack, and there is raking that we never seem to finish. We decided to put our kiddos to work this week in order to teach them that everyone helps out in our family and to teach responsibility. Here is what they did.

• They cleaned out the car. They did everything from emptying out the trash to scrubbing the seats with hot, soapy water. Using water is always fun for the kiddos!
• The kids also put away the foam alphabet puzzles that we sit on when we do school work outside. This is a bigger project than you think!
• We cleared out our sand box and the pool and put them away. We’ll use the sand toys in the snow this winter so we stored them with the other outside toys.
• We recycled broken toys.
• We swept the leaves off of the deck.
• They helped Daddy put fire wood into the wheelbarrow.

It is great to see our children taking pride in their contributions to the family. It also has been a relief for me since I am able to get things donewhile I am with the children instead of finding child care or shooing them away while I work. They are also learning a valuable lesson about working together.

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