Autumn & Thanksgiving Morning Basket

It's that time of the year where the world tells us to be busy and to take part in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

As homeschoolers we have already chosen to slow down and educate our children at home. We are teaching them to learn to enjoy life instead of rushing through it just to get to the next thing.

Why should the holidays be any different?!

Here at The Peaceful Press our resources help you to embrace an atmosphere of learning that encourages you to slow down as a family and learn together through experiences and beautiful literature.

Let us help you to enjoy this holiday season and focus on what matters most.

Our Thanksgiving & Autumn Morning Basket will help you and your family to focus on this season making memories together and to focus on the real meaning of giving thanks.

Things to include in your autumn morning basket:

The Playful Pioneers New England Guide- The Playful Pioneers New England Parent Guide is your daily guide for giving your 6-12-year-old students a literature-based education. The guide will lead you through daily readings in chapter books about New England along with picture books designed to introduce your child to New England history with a special focus on the Thanksgiving story.

You will read about famous people and events, including William Bradford, Squanto, Hiawatha, Paul Revere, Phillis Wheatley,  and more.

As your child explores the time period, they will learn to identify geographical concepts and hear from diverse voices about this pivotal time in American history. The parent guide includes map work, nature study, poetry, hymns, narration, copy work prompts, science experiments, art, practical life skills, and much more. The Playful Pioneers New England Parent Guide includes four weeks of lesson plans with a helpful week-at-a-glance grid, monthly overview, supplies list, book list, hymns and poetry, free reading suggestions, and more.

-New England Guide Student Guide & Copywork - The Playful Pioneers New England student sheets include poetry selections, Bible verses, maps, and notebook pages to introduce narration and copy work to your child. These sheets will help your child with beginning composition and grammar, form drawing, handwriting, and vocabulary skills as they trace or copy their page. Included is a cursive or print tracing file, as well as a kinder file with single words and larger fonts for younger students, and an elementary copy work file which includes blank lines for children ready to copy on their own.

-New England Guide Cookbook- The Playful Pioneers New England Cookbook includes recipes to correspond with the readings from each week. You and your child will work together to make cornbread, pumpkin pie, and other New England-themed recipes.

-New England Guide Fine Art- The Playful Pioneers New England Art includes four different art prints featuring art from N.C. Wyeth.

-Native American Cards- The Native American Fact Cards Pack includes paintings and information about many of the Native American tribes who first settled North America. Paired with beautiful paintings of tribe members by early American artists, these cards provide an introduction to the fascinating world of indigenous people in America.

The cards can be cut to create an artist matching game or used full-sized as memory cards. The pack also includes a list of additional resources as well as a map depicting where many of the tribes first lived. This pack is a perfect addition to your year of studying pioneers with The Playful Pioneers curriculum and a beautiful overview of 20 prominent tribes.

-Autumn Guide- The Peaceful Press: Autumn Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of harvest and thankfulness. Your 3-7 year-old child will continue developing large and fine motor skills, phonics and counting skills, and their love for literature through the stories and projects included in The Peaceful Preschool: Autumn Guide. The unit also includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring autumn a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

You can also purchase all four seasonal guides bundled together!

-Through the Season Guides: Summer, Spring, Winter, & Autumn

Four guides to make the most of the seasons

Summer Guide

The Peaceful Press: Summer Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of growing and thriving. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring summer a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your 3-7-year-old learners.

Autumn Guide

The Peaceful Press: Autumn Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of harvest and thankfulness. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring autumn a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Winter Guide

The Peaceful Press: Winter Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of comfort and sustenanceThe unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring winter a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Spring Guide

The Peaceful Press: Spring Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of blossoms and rainbows. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring spring a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners. 

Individual seasonal guides can be found HERE though the Through the Seasons Guide is the best value.

-Art Memory Game- Our Peaceful Press Art Memo Game is a lovely way of working on picture study, visual processing, and memory with your child.

Included are fine art prints, along with corresponding title and artist, which coincide with The Kind Kingdom, The Precious People and The Playful Pioneers.

All you do is print, laminate, and cut, for a beautiful and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.

-Calendar Bundle- The Peaceful Press: Calendar Bundle is a free preschool resource for learning dates!!

-Scripture Memory Cards- The Scripture Cards are a set of 30 cards. Five downloadable sheets features the coordinating bible verses from our best-selling Playful Pioneers early learning curriculum!

Simply print, cut, and laminate, for a beautiful way to keep scripture in your heart and the hearts of your children.

How do you slow down to be intentional with your family over the busy holiday season?