Home school learning I'm exhausted, how are you feeling and getting on?

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I'm so tired, losing my motivation with trying to look after the kids and do home learning. How are you feeling and getting on?

I'm not doing anything this week, well at least not for the really hot days.

Mine are too cranky, too hot and bothered and too tired to engage! I am not going to waste my time.

Got into more of a structure with it now since the 14 YO realised he is now studying towards exams and got his arse in gear but as above, in Scotland so only a few days to go and they haven’t been set much. At the start it was hell and there are still days when neither of them can be bothered and frankly neither can I. There is a reason I failed maths and it’s showing even with my 10 YO

Absolutely fine here. I’m a teacher but I’ve not done any work with my kids, they’ve just got on with it themselves, my only input has been a bit of baking with DD and ordering some paint.

It’s just not happening now

Ds (yr 7) is meant to work Independently. He attends the lessons and now just does English and maths

He has had loads of work to do. I’ve still had to go to work so it’s down after work it’s exhausting lots of tears (both) and tantrums

I’m not pushing anymore it’s too stressful

canwecomeintotheoutnow your DS would love my DS's maths teacher (year 3) who uses minecraft as a basis and sometimes an explanation for lots of maths problems. He's actually succeeded in making minecraft a nearly core part of the curriculum.

Other than that I'm with you all.. its very very difficult to get the 7 year old to sit down and do anything. My 14 year old is quite committed but even she's had enough of this rigmarole.

Homeschooling would be fine if I wasn't working. Working world be fine if I wasn't homeschooling. Feel constantly guilty because I prioritise supporting my kids school work over my own work, but my employer is OK-ish about this (not that ok but not going to sack me!)

For those of you who are doing zoom tutoring, is it worth it? We had a tutor before lock down but I didn't go for the zoom option as I was not sure how much my DC would get out of it. Quite a lot to pay for non face to face...

I would say almost as good, it means there is someone else demanding homework is done rather than just me as the school feedback tends to just be a heart and there is little specific constructive comments. Depends if you have a clear idea of topics you want to be covered.

@Mummyshark2019 it is face to face though, I think. My daughter has a maths tutor. Started after lockdown, so they’ve never even met. They laugh and chat away together. Tutor can see her face, so can judge from expression, body language, hesitancy etc how things are going. Sometimes they work on screen (literally writing on the screen) other times on paper. I’ve seen her in an in person session with a different tutor (who she also got on with) and it’s no different.

Using Oak Academy, just picking stuff each day no correlation to curriculum. Only thing that is useful as harder than what school sends (pick older year). Refuses to do easier stuff.

It is absolute hell and that is with a really supportive teacher on Google Meets every day. DD (age 7, year 2, probably some kind of SEN) has a mega tantrum at least once a day and does as little as she possibly can. DH and I are utterly fed up with it. The teaching material's quite good too! We're taking turns but if you take your eyes off her for a minute she's barging into the other parent's call/lesson/meeting, usually with only knickers on. The only positive is it's meant I've referred her to be assessed for SEN.

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I'm finding it hell at this point. It was ok to begin but every day I've had tantrums, lots of delaying, arguing and meltdowns. Im actually dreading the summer holidays. I'm now overwhelmed with exhaustion and trying to keep entertained and having things of interest to do outside of gaming is going to be tough in itself

Hating it. Kids hate it and are bored and completely disinterested. I am beyond pushing it too much as just don't have the time or energy with work at the same time. CAnnot wait for the holidays when we will stop! They have learnt nothing really..just doing stuff for the sake of it.

Horrendous.

I hate everyone and everything.

I'm pretty much at the point of quitting and having an extended summer hol . Will 4 weeks really define what will become of them . I doubt it

We’ve scrapped the school work off ( I can’t complain as there is lots to do) but she’s fed up with with work sheets

I found a really good online site called IXL and she will sit and do 15-20 mins on there as there are rewards and certificate which seem to help.

It’s ok.
Kids are getting on with it but they’re finding it hard with no teaching (secondary school). They’re trying to learn things themselves so it’s taking much longer than anticipated.
I don’t think they’ve submitted much on time.
Primary school dc is just getting on with bbcbitesize daily and maths factor.
I work part time so am available to help them. They would’ve struggled if I couldn’t.

Extremely over it! DH and I both work full time and so don't have the time to do stuff like crafts and experiments with DS8 (Year 3) so his days usually involve maths, English/SPaG then one other thing. We are doing what school is asking but none of the optional stuff. He likes anything that involves an app or game and hates writing so English usually results in tantrums, delaying and timewasting which is infuriating. He has chosen a few things to learn about because he's just interested in them and for that I've used stuff from Twinkl. We are making sure we recap
the areas of maths/SPaG that he is less confident in before the end of term Before lockdown we were likely to be going down the route of assessment for autism. He is a bright boy but his concentration is terrible and he wants input constantly which is really hard. Fed up of feeling like a crap parent!

Just took a look at IXL...looks good. We will attempt that tomorrow.