Be honest-how much home schooling are you doing?

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I know some people are probably doing loads and others none. How much are you doing particularly with your 7 /8 year olds (in year 3).

I work from home so I aim for 45 mins in the morn and same in the afternoon but often we dont achieve this.

If im honest he spends hours upon hours on the tablet (minecraft).. :-( I feel guilty but at least hes happy wnd safe and i can do some of my work. I only have 1 child so easier for me.

Does anyone do loads or none? Im hoping im in the middle??

Just to clarify he wasnt home schooled before so it's just during lockdown im home schooling

Year 3 and 2. We do 2 hours a day in the morning..

Snacks help!

Year 2 & 4, 30 minutes to an hour per day plus some online stuff like My Maths or Timestables Rockstars

7&8 year old and they've done all their school work for the week. They prefer to get as much done as they can and have more time off. Which is better for me as I can work more when not home schooling.

Year 3.
School are setting 1 hour English, 1 hour maths and 1 hour other- topic/ Science/ French/ reasoning/ PHSE per day. He has half an hour zoom form time a day and half an hour guitar lesson on Skype a week.
We’re doing all that school set but nothing extra except reading. There’s a lot of minecraft going on!

I work from home. I have three dc. Oldest can sort themselves out, no input needed from me. Middle is a young teen and needs support as has regular meltdowns at not understanding things, as well as a tendency to just not do things if they are difficult or don’t work first time (eg link broken = just don’t do any of the work, then freak out when challenged about non-completion and rail against how UNFAIR it is that they would be blamed when it didn’t work) Needs taking in hand to make sure link broken - try another browser, take out the obvious typo, load it on the laptop instead of in an app, report it to the teacher so they can fix it, complete work, happens. Also has a tendency to read the question wrong and work hard on a related topic but not actually the work required. That is also not fair, and leads to door slamming etc etc. This DC is expected to be at desk all normal school hours plus some extra for homework, instrument, and PE. Youngest dc, around the same age as yours. Masses of schoolwork including science projects, maths challenges, in depth English work, art, spellings, reading and times tables. Work being sent out daily, and daily google classrooms to check in with the teacher. Weekly phone calls with the teacher. It is also suggested they do Joe Wicks every morning.

It’s a big struggle to get this DC on topic and doing anything and it seems everything needs spoon feeding. If I look away to finish my own stuff for a few minutes they will not just carry on but grind to a total halt and stare into space.

It’s a big struggle here at the moment but youngest DC is doing around two and a half hours in the morning, with breaks, and same in the afternoon, with a a bit of evening learning too. This covers all the sitting down doing things work but also the project elements like today we have found out about a South American country, done some measuring of things in the house, made scenes from a book out of Lego, planted seeds etc. There is a huge amount of work to be got through coming out from the school and we are currently nearly a week behind.

I’m doing a lot of very early morning work, late at night work and going quietly insane. The only upside is I’m self employed and there is no one to answer to but myself if a DC mucks up my work or interrupts my video calls.

Honestly I am seriously questioning if my 8 year old son has ever set foot inside a fucking school at all. He is doing nothing but getting every single thing wrong. Like stupidly wrong.. I don't know if it's on purpose or laziness or what the hell is going on but he's reducing DH and I to ripping our fucking hair out. I mean I knew he wasn't academically inclined like his sisters who smashed their school work and are flying through their subjects but this is the most basic stuff he does perfectly well in class. Actual class. In school. With a teacher.

It's taking from morning til after 4pm for him to complete a small handful of tasks like writing a dozen words (like To, For, Only and The) and draw a picture of a rainbow from a video. Writing 6 sentences took two hours today.

Two. Hours.

DD10 and DD13 are cracking on with theirs just fine.

Yr 3 boy if he does 2hrs work he gets 2hrs fortnight. Also reads and watches BBC bitesize for his age group. Both parents doing full hours from home plus a 3yr old its not easy.

My year 3 is doing 1 hr each of maths and English (send from school), then they're choosing one activity from BBC bitesize. I'm wfh full time but my dh has been made redundant so he's helping her.

We’re abroad, so they only go to school in the mornings. I replicate this as far as possible, so we do approx 8.30 till 12.30 with breaks. We’re still not keeping up with the massive volume of work they’re sending from school

I am lucky, I am furloughed and only have one. We are trying to complete everything that is set but it’s a lot. We generally do 2 topics in a morning, lunch break, 2 topics in the afternoon. And then some reading or a fun project after tea. I try to make it a similar time wise to a school day, and then give her two days a week off. When she’s not doing that she’s on her tablet or playing. She’s in year 3.

DD 9'is working from 8.30 until about 2. With 1 short break and 1 lunch break.

Even then she doesn't finish all she has been set

She has
Corbett Maths 5 a day
10 mins TT Rockstars
Reading comprehension
Topic work - 40 mins or so
10'mins spelling shed
Handwriting sheet
Zoom lesson each morning 45 mins
You tube clips about the topic
1 chapter of class book

Year four DD does about two hours a day. I let her choose what she does. If it’s not up to standard she has to upgrade her work later on in her own time. This isn’t enough time to get everything done from school but school are happy for her to do what she can. She also practises her two instruments daily.

Year six DD does all her daily work in about half an hour flat. She’s super bright though and extremely bored of the level of work set. Roll on high school.

Honestly? Not hours every day. Tends to be later in the day, for example I'll fire time tables at him as we're getting ready for bathtime, look at things together on the tablet, reading at bedtime, reading books and his SATs revision books. ..just trying to do bits as we go along rather than sitting at the table. I think you're doing ok! (I think you'll get a lot of people on here saying they're doing hours.. which is fantastic... But you maybe won't hear from the parents who don't do as much if any, for various reasons). I hope you're not stressing out about it all, we had a lovely very sensible letter from our school saying if we fancy a duvet day and a movie have one! Like you say as long as they're happy.

Rec(4), y2(7), y4(8) & y5(10) & a rampaging 2yo here. 7, 8 & 10yo are 3 hours (ish) every weekday morning, English & maths of 1.5 hours each, as set by school, plus 20 min on a time tables app (that they use in school) & 20 min reading to me each. The normally read to themselves for 30 min at bedtime too. 4yo is reading to me or DH for 10 mins morning & afternoon & doing probably 2 other 20/30 min stints with worksheets during the day. They all colour/ draw in the afternoon or help me & Dh in the garden.

I have a DD in year 3. Her school is setting 2-3 short tasks a day plus they have TT Rockstars and a couple of other similar things . I've been trying to get her to do 30-60 mins in the morning but often nothing in the afternoon... we're not completing all the daily tasks by a long shot. That's as much as I can manage right now for various reasons. I don't feel any guilt about it and luckily school are laid back about it - the work's there if we can do it / want to but they're not chasing for it.

Other than that she does Lego, games on kindle, reads a lot, colouring / craft stuff, lots of time in the garden til the weather changed, and helping out with household chores.

Mine is year 2 and yep the same as you. She likes minecraft. We have tried to do other things as well as work, practical stuff like gardening. I've been open and honest with the teacher about it and he's been so far, very supportive.

Ds is in year 6. He does Joe Wicks at 9am, then maths, which is set by his teacher and this week has been easy for him but time consuming as there’s a lot of questions. In previous weeks he’s finished early and done some year 8 maths. Then he has a 15 min break, then Spelling Shed, English set by school, Read Theory (set by school) and reading until 12. At 1pm he does another activity set by school, extra science or history or his school project until 3pm.

So he has approximately 4 hours and 15minutes of sitting at his desk type school work a day.

Year 2 here but abroad. We do the compulsory activities every day (generally English, phonics, maths and sometimes science). Then we do anything from zero to three of the others which are optional; usually PE, French, Arabic, music and project.

The specialist teachers are handling the optional subjects, and then the 5 class teachers from their year have one compulsory subject each which they teach by pre-recorded video on Seesaw.

We start at 8.30 and finish around lunchtime-3pm, which is slightly longer than our normal school day but we have a LOT of breaks and very lengthy ones at that! If the kids are playing nicely I tend to leave them to it and don’t push their schoolwork.

Forgot computing as well.

Rebel I laughed out loud when I read your post, my son is 10 and we are having no end of problems with him concentrating and sticking to one thing at a time. He's just handed in a half baked piece of work which I tried to help him with but no, he knowns best and turned in some absolute bollocks, refusing to ask the teacher questions and rejecting all my gentle suggestions. Just come out of the toilet after banging my head on the wall as it's been like this daily for the last eight weeks, it's been absolute hell.

Barely any tbh, I'm working 40 hrs a week as my boss lives in the dark ages with regards to working from home so me and a few others are in the office, my DH is trying, they do a hour in the morning and reading in the afternoon, I'm feeling massive guilt, I've uninstalled Facebook as the amount of people that have turned into teachers and are posting timetables etc is doing my head in

None. I'm working 40 - 60 hours a week instead of the 25 I'm supposed to.
I feel incredibly guilty. Ds's have just been left to get on with it.

Pre school and primary school aged. None. No formal homeschooling. We don't need the stress. They read books and busy themselves all day regardless