Prepping for a days homeschooling tomorrow

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Ugh. So the school has posted spellings to learn and a workout with joe wicks. Write a short story and create/ video a song about handwashing

I really don't know how I'm going to make the little blighters darlings work it's an utter PITA getting homework out of them preschoolers kicking around too so chaos often reins as I deal with crying small person.

Love to hear tips.

Here’s my incredibly vague plan.

Mine are at their best in the mornings so I’m going to try to get anything they are likely to resist done then.

Snacks mid morning and mid afternoon.

Bribery with screen time.

If that all fails, don’t worry, I expect the teachers will be quite grateful at the moment if they receive less work to mark and nobody’s going to be pulling you up on it.

Let them design their own timetable. Give them responsibility and have a few fun things with the work. The Joe Wicks thing should be good. Maybe they can then do a bit of work then baking or playdoh or something....

I think if I let them design their own timetable it'd be minecraft, play in the garden, dogwalk, walk the ducks (we take them to a little burn for a bath :) ) Lego lunch something dangerous I wouldn't approve of denbuilding etc. Absolutely no work atall!

I think I have to tell them a minimum we do every day like 30 minutes sumdog plus practice a times table. Do spellings. Write something. Read something.

Maybe something project based. I thought we could start with the solar system, make planets reread Dara O'Briain book and then write something about a different planet every day, two weeks if I include the belts. That way we could cover art etc. Don't know if I'm overthinking though.

Twinkl is free at the moment and has loads of resources.

GoNoodle on YouTube is great for movement and exercise.

Shows like Numberjacks are great for sneaking in educational number learning to Nursery aged children and younger.

Literacy Shed has loads of great videos for story writing.

Lastly, we get it will be hard. We're not expecting you to teach your children to the same standards. These are unprecedented times after all.

I've worked out a timetable based around a Joe Wicks workout first thing, then a different book each day. So we'll read 3 Little Pigs, draw a picture based on it, write the answers to some questions, then do a craft - tomorrow we'll paint pigs using round stampers - and have a snack from the 'tuck shop'. Then it's tidy up time, lunch and a free hour. Back at it at 2pm for maths and a montessori app for an hour, finish with an hour of something he wants to learn - vikings, space, etc with a TV programme to suit and snacks.

Husband and I are both working at home and I'm high risk so can't go anywhere at all, so we'll just have to do what we can!