Off with covid and struggling with school work

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Any advice for home schooling. Ds is positive. His whole class has had to shut anyway due to covid cases so we would be homeschooling anyway. He is autistic and has a ehcp and one to one help. Sometimes even his one to one struggles to get him to focus. So I'm having no luck at all. He loves Mr men books. Thought we could just read them together as surely as least its something and defo something other than screen time?!?!? Help. Anybsuggestions would be amazing 🤣🤣

How old is he?

If he is positive; even if his symptoms are mild, his body may have it’s hands full fighting the infection.

Let him rest and take it easy. So if what he’s up to is reading Mr Men books then that’s fine.

He had snuffly nose tues bedtime which is when I tested him. Because of that and because of all the positive cases in class. He woke up weds morn fine and been OK since. No symptoms. But positive on pcr . He has autism and development delays. He's 8 nearly 9

My neurotypical ds is positive and it's been a nightmare trying to get him to do any work. He is doing reading ane drawing in the morning. Watching vaguely educational things in the afternoon and that is plenty.
My eldest ds who is autistic had to isolate whilst he waited for his pcr results, thankfully negative and no way was he going to do any work whilst at home. So I didn't even worry about it.

I would just do a !little with him, make it all about play. If we ever go into lockdown again, there's no way I'm homecoming on a scale as what I did the last time, they expected too much and it stressed us all out.

Read the books to him. Ask him questions.
Colour Mr Men pictures (good for handwriting)
Count things in the pictures.
Make a Lego/Duplo house for a Mr Man.
Draw a picture of the house (top down)
Draw and cut out Mr Men puppets from cereal boxes and act out the story.
Make Mr Men biscuits by decorating biscuits with coloured icing and using sprinkles for eyes etc.

If he's actually positive then I wouldn't worry. He maybe fine, but his body is fighting inside. Just take it easy, and do only things whatever he is up for.

Honestly? Don't worry about it. Read with him, play Lego and chat about stuff. Watch documentaries and maybe do some baking.

Play board games especially any that involve counting, read books to him or use audible, apps on your phone/iPad for maths that are fun - trying cover similar topics to the maths he should be doing. I would give very structured timetable and let him help tú put it together then it will fill less like a long day

If he loves Mr Men, they have loads of free resources : mrmen.com/blogs/news-and-activities?page=2

Thank you everyone. We did some mr men books and I asked questions about the story. He enjoyed that. He's now playing lego!