Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Teach 'A Christmas Carol' This Year (Or Should You?)

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Homeschool Better Together podcast, I’m joined by Dawn Garrett to chat about our special gift for homeschoolers this year—A Christmas Carol explorations! We’re offering a free resource full of fun activities, discussions, and enrichment to bring some holiday cheer into your homeschool. Dawn and I go over the history behind this yearly gift, why we’re excited about A Christmas Carol as this year's theme, and a few reasons you might not want to skip this one.

I share my journey of rediscovering the story’s true meaning and why it’s a perfect classic to enjoy as a family. We also talk about the Camp Christmas upgrade, packed with even more holiday fun, crafts, and planning resources to keep your homeschool cozy and memorable this season.

Key Points:

A Christmas Carol explorations as a free holiday gift.
Why this story offers valuable lessons in a family-friendly way.
Optional Camp Christmas upgrade for extra activities, crafts, and planning tools.
Fun community challenges and a chance to win prizes.

Resources and Links

For full show notes and a transcript of today’s episode, head to pambarnhill.com/hsbt(25)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:05.4	Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?
0:10.3	Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.
0:18.2	I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and into the wonder.
0:23.9	Let's do this.
0:28.3	Hello, hello, and welcome, welcome. We are so glad that you are joining us here today. I am joined
0:35.1	today by Ms. Dawn Garrett, who is our customer service manager,
0:39.8	community manager here at homeschool better together. Don, welcome back to the podcast.
0:46.5	I always like to come and chat with you and we always have fun. Yeah, we do. And it's,
0:52.1	it's great to have you back because for so long I was doing like solo podcast and it's like really nice to have somebody to talk to again. So yay. Well, today we are talking about we have kind of a little tongue and cheek kind of title for you. And we're going to explain why we landed on that title, though. I'm going to say it was
1:12.1	accidental. And then Dawn pointed out, oh, yes, this is the title that we need. Because at first,
1:16.8	when I suggested it, it was like a working title. But it is five reasons not to do a Christmas
1:24.9	carol in your homeschool this year. And we'll tell you why that ended up
1:29.6	being the real title in just a few minutes. But let me give you a little bit of background.
1:34.7	So a Christmas carol is kind of our gift to you. Not that we wrote it. We can't take credit for
1:41.8	that. Charles Dickens, right? But every year,
1:46.6	the homeschool better together team puts together a gift for homeschoolers out there. And, you know,
1:53.2	we've done like our Advent morning time plans in the past and our Christmas tradition morning time
1:58.0	plans. We've got a couple of different explorations are,
2:02.4	help me out, Dawn. Well, there are Christmas traditions. So, like, traditions from around the
2:08.4	world we've given way. Yeah, the around the world explore, Christmas around the world
2:12.3	explorations. That's what I was looking for. And then we have another kind of Christmas
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