To ask what you’re doing in lockdown with the kids?

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Week 4.
I’m officially out of ideas to entertain DS4 and 9.
Watched most of Netflix, Disney+, prime. Done loads of craft. Done loads of gardening. Played with all their toys. House is the cleanest it’s ever been.
How are you entertaining your kids? Feel a bit of a cop out giving them the ipads.
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We were managing an hour online learning, an hour worksheets, an hour reading plus about 30 minutes learning times tables.
Then the virus hit us. It descended into sleeping, feeding and iPads.
We’re just past that so the last 2 days have been playing in the garden, board games, indoor badminton, haircuts, tidying rooms, an egg hunt, daily walks and tv. Will get back into routine after the Easter holidays.
I have craft stuff and science kits we can use too. Tomorrow we plan to bake.

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I have a just turned four year old boy, plus a small baby. Me too :)

We live in a flat so always go for our 1h walk/jog/cycle. Sometimes I leave DS2 home with DH so I can keep up with DS1 cycling or jogging.
Cosmic kids yoga is good, and we do lots of baking/cooking.
I try to do a bit of pre-writing skills with DS1 (going into reception in September) but it never lasts long.

Meals are more relaxed and take longer these days, and I let him have the ipad when I need to tidy up or after lunch for 'quiet time'

I went round the house and made a list of absolutely everything we have that the kids can do - games, forgotten craft and science kits, toys etc etc
I then wrote everything on coloured strips of paper for different categories of activity - stuff a child can do by themselves, stuff the kids can do with each other, things that need adult supervision (baking or science experiments etc), things to do outside and board games. They can then pick a piece of paper. It’s all stuff we have for them to choose from but it focus’s them on to something they may not have thought of

Also like a PP we have a rough time table in the week

• school set work
• active time
• Creative time
• activity/topic time
• quiet reading time
• non electronic activity time

Joe Wicks, a full day of homeschooling, bike rides/ walks, football (DH is in charge of that), Minecraft with his friend (virtually of course!), a bit of art and craft, science experiments (DS’s favourite), board games, cooking. DS is 10 so quite easy 😊

Lazy morning start. Play in the garden after breakfast - football or other.

School work in the morning.
Quick lunch.
A couple of hours walk or bike ride.
Another hour or so of school work.
Back in the garden, gardening, building things, playing

Diner. Sometimes movie, sometimes just reading in their bed.

Haven't had much time for craft or baking, and definitively no time to clean the house.

Weekends they are allowed tv in the morning and to play video games for a while.

Ds gaming for hours and snacks all day (with a lunch and dinner) He is so happy! We watch the occasional film. Read together,
Go for walk (I have to drag him out)

He is at school two or three times a week and has t do some work at home

I’m still working I’m exhausted he can game all he likes for now

Today they've done PE with Joe followed by Cosmic Yoga, read books, made Hot Cross Buns, played with Lego, done Maths and writing, played in the garden, been in the hot tub... and yes had tablet time.

Oh and some baking and cooking

Dog walks, teaching son to ride his bike, camp in te garden, cooking, Egg hunt, Online homework, Housework.

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No school work at the moment here because if things were “as normal“, they would be on school holidays now. So we are on a ‘get more screen time than you’re usually allowed’ regime which needless to say they love!

They have been playing lots of games (both board and video) and been in and out of the garden a lot (trampoline is officially the best garden purchase we have ever made, badminton net is second best garden purchase we have ever made). 10yo is doing a bit of 11+ prep, though lord knows if and when any exams will actually happen, and the 15yo is writing and illustrating a comic book in between gaming online with his mates.

Other than that (for the younger two) Lego, drawing, reading, eating snacks, doing a bit of Easter baking and watching shite on YouTube. We’ve also been making a trail at the back of the garden and DS3 and I have made a bug hotel (aka chucking random bits of wood in a pile next to the compost heap).

We will go back to online school learning timetables from 20 April when the schools officially start up again.

I have a list of things they have to do and tick off every day, after that they can do whatever they like (usually play computer games, but there has been a decent amount of imaginative play and things like treasure hunts, playing outside, chalking on the house, going no the trampoline etc) The list isn’t particularly specific but it is useful (to us) - exercise, talk to a friend, make something, find out a new fact, try something new, read, house job 1, house job 2. Adults have to tick theirs off too.