To barely be doing the school work

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My daughter's school work is so complex for five. Her maths is all complicated stuff that all adults I've shown have struggled to understand without quite abit of thought. We have awful tinny videos to watch from her teacher's every day. I've got a toddler here all day rubbing riot. I just can not keep up. The day is like this.

9.20 half an hour live registration.

Each day a 20 minute English lesson video. Hard to hear. Toddler wanting to join in. Shouting over it. Volume on my phone and laptop is not loud enough if there's any background noise.

Repeat the same for maths. Also new ways of doing it from my school days so I can't seem to get it to stick in her head.

A phonics lesson. We usually manage this.

Spelling tests each week.

Science lesson each week.

Pe section.

Assembly for 20 minutes each day.

After noon check in at 3.20 for 20 minutes.

Phe lesson a couple of times a week.

So they basically want us as parents to teach the kids a full school day each day. Check in twice. Watch an assembly.

I wish I could. But my toddler does not sleep now and he's not burning any energy of himself with me trying to do all this. I'm trying to potty train. Run a house. Have time for my boyfriend. Cook. Care for myself and get us our for excercise.

I am not alone. My situation isn't the hardest. But my daughter is falling behind because there's just not a quiet part of the day she can concentrate.

I am overwhelmed and exhausted by it all.

What are other people's schools doing?
How are you coping?

Oh, one more thing - if she's struggling with maths, buy her some mathlink cubes and put Numberblocks on. My DS was obsessed with his cubes!

I “have it easy” with homeschooling just now.
I’ve still ditched bits of the “topic work” that DC don’t find appealing on a Bad Day, or is a faff (eg baking cupcakes on Tuesday - didn’t have the ingredients in), have ditched PE lessons (which are a link to a YouTube video), with an hour a day of active play outside and/or practicing her fave sport.

Teacher here! That sounds ridiculous for 5. Wtf are schools doing in the UK? They need to stop aiming to achieve a full school day.

I would do the phonics and read lots of books together. Encourage DD to draw, write, hold a pen (whatever she enjoys - mazes, dot to dots, colouring). Play games which involve maths. E.g, tower of 3 blue lego blocks see how many green ones I must add on to make 10. Do exercise in whichever way is most enjoyable for you as a family (a run around the local park is clearly better than trying to do an online PE lesson). Don't bother with anything else unless you want to.