How much work are your kids doing?

[Badteacher2020]

Just interested in how much your kids are doing? Mine aren’t coping well so we’re probably doing 2 worksheets a day and some reading but mostly they’ve been playing, bit of drawing and tv.

Are you following a timetable? Are your kids actually doing work or are you teaching them anything?

Thanks

Ds6 has work set daily via google classroom even through the holidays, today work was to write what you would do if you were the Easter bunny for a day, practice cursive handwriting of the alphabet, a maths worksheet, reading/spellings it’s taken about an hour split through the day with just reading/practicing of spelling left to do. The teachers are great and are uploading daily including a assembly video and story time video.
Ds13 is not having any set at the minute as it’s the holidays but is still doing work on a daily basis as it helps give him things to do through the day, he has finished all the project work he was set before the holidays so is now picking things himself which he thinks will be useful to his learning and is doing around 2 hours a day
I am still at uni as it’s open university and struggling to fit in the time to do my work whilst juggling everything else and keeping two kids entertained through the day 😞

No much as it's a fight. I've massively restricted switch time and TV as they won't sleep. Trying to keep them in garden as much as possible

We are doing stru tired activities from. 9 til 4 which includes literacy, maths, craft etc. Like @TheEndIsBillNighy said it actually helps as I l'm not constantly trying to think of 'what next". I pick a theme at the weekend and put together some activities based on that. Dd is 5 though, so most of it is fun based eg maths includes baking, weighing, counting passers by etc

DD8 is refusing to do any work and the more I encourage her the more she refuses

Her headteacher posted a lovely letter on Class Dojo telling us not to worry, don't try and force them and they will all catch up once they're back in school. That definitley made me feel better!

Some of the teachers at her school have posted loads on Dojo, and my nephews school are really good on it too, but DD's class teacher hasnt posted a single thing, no messages, no help NOTHING....

I've downloaded her some activity packs from Twinkl which she'll have a go at when I threaten to throw her iPad away but I am worried she's the only one doing sweet fuck all!

We've had sod all from one school - just "do a bit of reading with them" and have completely pulled up the drawbridge and cut communication totally - but the other school are apparently setting up something more structured this week (nada yet) but have at least kept communicating with the kids chatting to them on google classroom etc.

At the moment it's all self/parent initiated... we've been hooking a lot of stuff onto the Cub and Beaver "complete at home" badges - so they were learning Makaton and fingerspelling earlier - and then DD1's pootled off to make a video to teach her class to fingerspell as well and upload that - and we've done some stuff on the solar system for one of their badges as well (I'm going to be sewing the fucking things on for hours when they go back).

I'm also shamelessly riding the free offers on the education sites so trying to do a couple of 30 minute sessions of those a day if we do nothing more elaborate and parent-initiated.

Not too worried about DD1 who academics come easier to but worried shitless for DD2 with mild SEN who is academically capable but needs supporting to get there.

Oh yeah and also trying to do my degree in the middle of all of this.

The secondary age child has worked diligently from 8:30-1 daily for the 2 weeks till the break. She has said she might work a bit more this week, but not much.

The younger one has done a little bit each day. There's a lot of the work they gave us left to do, so we will keep working Tues-Thurs this week and next week to finish those bits off.

We've also done lots of playing in the garden, baking and cooking and board games as well as Minecraft/Mario/i-pad time. Oh and daily reading every day anyway for both.

The older two (secondary age) should have been doing loads. 5 subjects a day with about 45 mins work for each lesson plus 30 mins reading. However getting them to do anything is like pulling teeth. It is all online so I can't even withhold internet access! The younger one(year5) is much better. He has done some good work in English and maths in the morning (set by school) then we do something else in the afternoon (science, history, art, etc set be school) or something off the internet, He also has been reading and playing basketball outside everyday,

It is really tough and whilst I maybe helping them it is nothing like teaching.

Nothing at the minute, their lives are miserable enough without spending the holidays doing school work! Before they broke up DS year 5 was doing about 4 hours a day with me and DD year 7 was having her full timetable via google classrooms 8.40am to 3.45pm so a full school day.

We aren’t doing any in the holidays although both teachers have set fun / creative optional tasks.

During term time reception child gets set a writing / talking challenge, a maths challenge and a creative challenge . She also has a couple of work books the school gave her . I send pics of some of her work over tapestry and teacher comments .

Year 4 child gets a load of tasks set each day including guided reading , English, maths and some kind of topic work . She’s happy to do the workbooks but doesn’t enjoy the guided reading / English so much . We can email work to teacher and she emails back . She is prob doing about 1-2 hours of actual work .

Does fortnite count! 😇

None really, he’s at school everyday as front line worker, they don’t teach him anything and he either draws or plays out.
I Don’t push anything at home as he is in reception so has plenty of time to catch up