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Homeschool Black History Month
Mar 1, 2025
Hey friends! Today I'm sharing how we incorporate Black History into our homeschool learning curriculum for Black History Month! Featured Books Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History: https://amzn.to/3wQS3mJ Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History: https://amzn.to/3HQyBwP The ABCs of Black History: https://amzn.to/3jpFLyo Baby Boy What Will You Be: https://amzn.to/3HQFuya Featured Channels Kids Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZxJEUOvS0&t=12s The Little Reading Nook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxkz6FFd1Q&t=22s The Story Time Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcSsjkQe9s&t=11s
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Black History Month is definitely
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something to be celebrated and so today
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I'm going to be sharing with you all how
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we incorporate Black History Month into
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our homeschool curriculum
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but let's go ahead and get into today's
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video topic and that is how we
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incorporate Black History Month into our
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homeschool preschool curriculum because
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my son Noah is only three years old
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incorporating Black History Month into
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our homeschool lessons it's not going to
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be that hard it's actually going to be
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quite simple something that you can
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follow along with and something that he
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can thoroughly enjoy and have fun with
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but this is also something that you can
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do with multiple age school children
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through grade school even middle school
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and even ourselves as adult can kind of
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just use these lessons to learn more
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about Black History Month so the first
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thing that we're going to be using in
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our Black History Month unit study is
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Little Legends exceptional Men In Black
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History this book covers 35 Plus famous
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black history men you can do one per day
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and cover the full month of February and
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still have some left over we personally
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don't do school on the weekend so there
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is more than enough lessons just inside
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of this one book this book is 17.99 in
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the US and 22.99 in Canada but I'm
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pretty sure I spent a little bit less
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than this on Amazon so I'll be sure to
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leave a link for it below I'll show you
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guys exactly what I paid for it each
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story is about one page long and then it
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has a picture of the person that is
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talking about so for instance on the
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first page it's talking about Benjamin
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Banneker and it has just basically a
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brief bio of who he was what he was
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famous for and it has one on every
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single page all different types of
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famous men in black history has
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Frederick Douglass bass Reeves Robert
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Smalls Charles Henry Turner it has
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authors Publishers astronauts Architects
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it has a bunch of different types of
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black history famous legends that are
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worth learning about so you can kind of
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just pick out the ones that you want or
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like I said you could do one per day and
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this is just one great way to introduce
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someone in black history and talk about
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it with your child another book They're
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going to be using is the ABCs of black
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history I love this book it's super cute
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and basically it's also a book of
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affirmation A is for Anthem a batter of
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song that wraps us and hope lets us know
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we belong we lift up our voices lift
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them and sing from stages and street
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corners Let Freedom rank so it teaches
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rhyming and it teaches Alphabet letter
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sounds as well as black history and it
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is a colorful very pretty and
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anesthetically pleasing book and it has
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a bunch of different black history
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affirmations and things that you can
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learn about it also affirms to your
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child that they can also be brave they
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can also be bright they can also be
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strong so each letter of the alphabet
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will relate to something and black
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history and it's pretty healthy as well
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this is a pretty long book
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um so you could definitely like read
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this all in one day or you could split
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it up I'm just gonna see how Noah does
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with it I might use it to start off a
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lesson so this is another book that
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we're going to be using the third book
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is baby boy what will you be so this one
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is more tailored to toddlers younger you
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know children these two books are for
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multiple ages of school-aged children
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not just for the little ones but what I
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like about this book is that it doesn't
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just teach them about the people in our
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history but it also teaches them that
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the future is important as well to
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continue being great and just continue
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on that success so it talks about all of
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the things that they too can be how you
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can be in Ash astronaut how you can be
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an architect a scientist a community
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helper all the things that they too can
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be so that after hearing about all the
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greatness of those who came before us
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they can also know that they too can do
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the same and follow in those footsteps
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another thing that I think is very
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important to include in black history is
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some Family Ties so we're also going to
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incorporate some people in our own
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family
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that I think it's worth highlighting as
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well for instance my husband Noah's
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father we're going to also take a day to
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do a project that's specifically about
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my husband's accomplishments and who he
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is so that he has someone that he
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personally knows who was great and who
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he can look up to and follow in those
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footsteps so it's important to maybe
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look into like siblings yourself your
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spouse your aunts your grandparents and
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things like that and also highlight them
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in black history as well so that our
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children can relate to a little bit more
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someone more close some are more
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personal someone that they know maybe
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even like a famous musician a famous
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artist or a favorite sports player and
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things like that aside from that and
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another way that my little one loves
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learning is through both Hands-On and
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also through some video as far as visual
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learning through like videos and things
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like that we we're also going to do some
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read alouds and videos so I'm gonna be
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sharing Down Below in the description
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box some links to some YouTube channels
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that I really like for like read-alouds
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and educational videos but I'm going to
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just show you or tell you some of the
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ones that we're also going to be using
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so Kids Academy on YouTube has the
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cutest story of Martin Luther King Jr
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that I think little ones can follow
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along to we watched this video for
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Martin Luther King day and he enjoyed it
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and he actually was engaged and paid
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attention so we're definitely going to
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revisit it it was only four minutes long
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and again it was super cute and even
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like the illustrations were easy for
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children to follow along with so that's
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Kids Academy and I'll be sure to link it
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down in the description box for you
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below so that you two can check out if
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you're interested in using it for your
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black history homeschool lessons as well
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and then as far as our read alouds the
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little reading look is really great
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great for read-alouds they have a Mae
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Jemison book read aloud that I really
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love and of course you can actually
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purchase these books offline and read
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them yourselves you don't have to do the
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read-alouds but so that my son can kind
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of just have something more visual
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outside of my everyday boring reading
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just a little bit more that he can watch
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with like some illustrations like on the
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screen because I know he sometimes kind
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of just prefers that the story time
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family is another great one for read
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alouds they have a really cute book read
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aloud about Rosa Parks the name of the
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book is Little People Big Dreams they
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have a ton of books about famous people
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in our history not just black history
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that you can check out the books on
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Amazon or you can do like me and just
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find a good read aloud Channel and not
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be anything for it so the little reading
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book has Martin Luther King Jr May okay
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Jemison and Frederick Douglass The Story
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Time family has Rosa Parks and then Kids
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Academy has a really cute story about
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Martin Luther King Jr as well so check
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all of those out if you're looking for
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some educational black history videos to
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incorporate into your homeschool lessons
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and again I'll leave them down below in
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the description box so that you can
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check them out as well and if I find the
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physical books on Amazon I'll leave
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those for you too so for the Hands-On
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portion if there is like a
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African-American museum near you or
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things like that then that will be a
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perfect opportunity to take your child
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on a field trip too so we are going to
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take a trip to the African-American
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Museum here in Michigan and on that day
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we're going to learn a few different
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things let him have some fun Hands-On
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activity because a museum has a few
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things that you can do hands on that's a
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little bit more fun gets him out of the
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house and while we're there we're gonna
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figure out one person that we can come
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home and just do a small little unit
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study and project on so every single
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week we're going to choose one person to
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highlight for the entire week and then
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in addition we're going to learn about
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one person every day in this book but
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using a week to kind of highlight one
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person in black history gives them a
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little bit more time to really narrow in
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and learn on that person we're only in
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preschool so every single school year if
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we're doing this for the month of black
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history and just know that black history
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does not have to only be celebrated just
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for the month of February I think it's
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very important to include a black
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history curriculum as your children get
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older into just everyday homeschool
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learning and not just for the month of
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February but for the month of February
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every single year if we learn about one
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person for an entire week
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Euros down the line I think he will have
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a thorough grasp of certain individuals
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if we're not just speeding through it
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and then we also revisit them throughout
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the school year so that is what we're
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going to do so each week one person and
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I think we're probably gonna do because
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this book doesn't
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cover any women I think we're going to
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focus more on the women like Rosa Parks
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May Jemison we might do Martin Luther
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King again because we did Martin Luther
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King on Martin Luther King Day last
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month but we're gonna do a little bit
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more about that because it's familiar
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with him when we go to the museum we're
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going to pick one more person hopefully
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a female probably do Harriet Tubman
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because I think Harriet Tubman is really
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highlighted at the museum that we're
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going to be going to so Rosa Park May
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Jamison Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther
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King are probably the four people that
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we're gonna be highlighting per week and
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then we'll do
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um an exceptional man every single day
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out of that book so a trip to the
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African-American museum is definitely
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going to spark his interest just a tad
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bit more than just the books that we're
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going to be reading it's not too much
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it's quite simple I'm gonna try to find
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ways to do projects and make it fun one
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per week just use like a boy or nothing
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big a small board that you can get from
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the dollar store for a dollar we can
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just do something on each person each
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week do a little project out of it and
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then for the last week I want to take an
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opportunity and allow my son to use a
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few magazine and things around him to
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create his own board to kind of just
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show me what he likes what some of his
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interests are and who he would like to
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be when he grow up as well so if you
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haven't yet after your child what they
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want to be when they grow up you know
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maybe look at some of the inspiration in
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the past we'll kind of Spike some
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inspiration for them in the future so
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that pretty much says that what we're
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going to be doing fire black history
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month so comment below and let me know
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how you teach your little one about
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black history I would love to know and
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