Homeschooling - are you carrying on in Easter hols?

[mymoonmyman2020]

On the one hand I think it would be positive to keep up a routine (we do a bit of school work in the morning with more free time in afternoon but no tv etc until after ‘school’ hours).

On the other hand I think we could all maybe do with a break :)

We’ve been ill here so the schooling’s been pretty hit and miss anyway...

Carrying on with the timetable. I need the structure and so do they. Ages 4,6&8 so timetable is pretty lax anyway with Lego and baking as well as worksheets.

My son aged 6 loves maths. We're keeping that up over the holiday, but using Maths Factor and Khan Academy websites rather than worksheets. It's a much something for him to do.

Plus reading day and night too.

We'll get back into writing when we have to!

My situation is probably different. DD is in year 10 and has SEN, she’s got home work for 2 weeks, something expected each week, we barely started so I would continue slowly until 75% of it is done, she won’t manage all of it even with my support.
In general I think little something every day works better with home schooling as you need to factor weather and other things in,e.g. we had a call from friends this morning which obviously send our routine out of the window but they couldn’t phone later (time difference).

I’m planning on trying to continue.

Firstly because we’re behind on the work set, so doing a bit each day in the holidays will hopefully help the DC catch up.

And secondly, we’re all going to be stuck inside, and unable to do the usual trips out etc, so keeping up with the school work will give the DC something to do and help keep them occupied.

Yes agree that it at least gives them something to do! :)

DH has warned DD that she's to do 2 hours of study per day on holidays. Summer exams are (officially) only a few weeks away after Easter. And she'd be bored senseless without some structure. She's quite happy to do that. Lying around doing nothing is totally NOT in her nature - as I said on another thread earlier, the xBox hasn't even been turned on since this started, and DH and I both have things we need to get on with (without her interference) over the holidays when we are not working. As we are still doing FT hours at home (and longer even for DH).

We are carrying on as we only do up to 2 hours anyway. It helps stave off boredom and saves all our sanity. Junior school kids. School have been pretty poor at providing work so I am relying on work sent by a parent friend at another school.

Mine are young so I am just going to keep up a small bit of reading and sight words. Hope to have lots of fun and bake or chilli as this home school thing is tricky

Chill not 🌶

We are on Easter holidays already and we’ve stopped home schooling. My dcs had a full timetable (probably more work than normal) last week and they need down time (as do I). Secondary age though.

Might be worth considering that if you don't alter the holiday day from a school day routine at all during the holiday, you are unlikely to be able to get them to continue well into early summer if needed.

Ideally you would have a lovely fun easter break, with some work to keep them ticking over, and 'back to school' on the same day as everyone else. Otherwise they may well run out of motivation and will, they will be tired if they have had a busy term, and you will spend the latter part of the lockdown having to nag, plead and yell.

Its a marathon not a sprint.

Also there was a definite air of relief on the first day of holidays, that we could all just relax a little.

I will carry on listening to reading and cooking which ds is enjoying but not Maths, English, Science and Geography.

We are going to carry on through the holidays. We've kept a pretty chilled routine and left out some of the project stuff to keep for Easter. We're not doing any work on days with good weather, holidays or not, they are few and far between in this neck of the woods and they are now garden days.

I’ll get mine to do some reading and music practice. I may get them both to do one extra thing a day but I’ll see how it goes

We'll do a little bit, on the grounds that he'd have had homework over the holidays anyway (and several of his teachers have set deadlines in the holidays), but not much.

DD1 (Yr9) has been following a strict online timetable via Google classroom which is monitored by her school. They have not set any work over the Easter holidays as they feel the students need a break for their mental wellbeing.

DD2 (Yr9) is in a different school which has been setting longer term projects and some timetabled work. She will work on the projects over Easter if need be but that will be her decision.

Otherwise, we'll do some cooking, gardening, reading and watch some films. Both girls are planning to take GCSE French so DP bought Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources so we're planning to watch them.

We home educate on a gentler schedule than we might if we stopped for holidays and weekends, so yes, we will be carrying on.

That’s a good point @cornishdreams1. I hadn’t thought of the stamina of the terms in that way. We’ve also had cornonavirus (we think) in our house and consequently a really hard time as a family so part of me is thinking it would be a nice opportunity to completely relax for a couple of weeks. Would definitely keep screen time to a minimum though, as my DC just turn into grouchbags if they watch for hours and hours...

We will be doing some next week with the younger one. We've gone at a much more leisurely pace due to him still needing a lot more input, meaning we've still got quite a bit of the work they set for the 2 weeks.

My older one has been very focused and working 8:30-1 (with a snack and lunch break) following her daily timetable, so for her there'll be more of a break, but I will get her to read (which she does anyway) and do some of her extra tutoring work.

All the indications are that our primary school is intending to keep sending out daily work throughout what should have been the holiday period. We are certainly expecting more work tomorrow and Friday, even though today was due to be the last day of term.

If school isn't sending work out next week, I will be using the resources we have at home, as otherwise my two start arguing the minute they get up and need the routine to continue.

We are still doing pe with joe wicks but then are doing loser craft/play/project work rather than lessons. My kids don't cope well without structure in the day but they do need a break.

School haven't set any work for this 2 weeks either

School have set 4 hours of work for 2 weeks and we haven’t done that, more like 2 hours, so we’ll have some stuff left for next week but will have a break the week after.

Nope. I’m doing everything I can to make it seem like a holiday for them. I will be restricting screen time still, so no tv or iPad during ‘school hours’, but I’m not going to be doing any school work.

We are going to continue with exercising and handwriting, but its something we would have continued on with anyway if he had still been at school, although exercising now involves doing a ton of forward roles on a blanket and sit ups, instead of running round a park.

I am still living in my world of the restrictions will come up by the second week and back to school after the holidays I can dream, please don't ruin it