How much help are you giving your primary kids?

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Hi, after some help/comparison please?

DD is year 1, we're homeschooling and there are no live lessons. Currently I will sit with DD and work one to one with her. Go through her work, I may explain in more detail, then we'll work through the answers. I don't give her any answers but if I can tell she's not quite got it, or could give more detailed answers, I will go back over the question, phrase it differently etc.

Is this OK? It's occured to me that when she goes back to school she wont (obviously) have the same 'support' (not saying I'm better than the teachers and TA's, just that I only have her to focus on, whereas back at school there will be 20+ kids)

Shall I take a step back and leave her to get on with it? Or use this oppurtunity to encourage her and spend the time making sure she understands while I can.

Once she's back at school, she's not going to have anyone by her side and making sure her work is done right. Am I setting her up for struggles?

This is exactly what I’m doing OP. I see this time as a bonus 1:1 learning. I’m encouraging independent work in some areas but I’m sitting with her for the majority. Sometimes we are learning together! I think there’s great value in it. It won’t last much longer but I think I’ll be sending her back to school with a much better grasp of certain areas.

Don’t worry about it.

That's reassuring! I assumed it was beneficial for her that we worked together but have been doubting myself. It's hard to know what to do for the best.

I'm furloughed at the moment so can spend the time with her. And I'm relearning things myself

I think you're right, there is great value in it.

I have a child in year one and I queried this exact thing with this teacher. She told me what the pp said - use this time to give full one on one support that the school can't give, and you'll be setting them up with great foundations of knowledge on return to school. I don't think DS would do the work without me hovering over him anyway, he needs constant encouragement to pick the bloody pencil up!!

I am pretty much 1:1 when working with my reception aged child, it's hard to see how she could really engage otherwise, especially for maths and English. Although it's obviously not 1:1 at school they do have things thoroughly explained to them and their understanding checked, it's not like you can just hand them a worksheet of sums to do! That said I probably spend around an hour a day on this in total, split into chunks of 10-15 minutes throughout the day.

With my Y3 it depends - she is usually very independent but has been quite wobbly about these school closures and often asks me to sit with her. For her maths in particular, which is usually a video tutorial followed by a worksheet, I'm happy to do this and actually feel she is benefitting from the 1:1 attention. For other subjects it depends - I try to quickly read through all her tasks in the morning and identify those where I can leave her to get on with it, and those where she might need a bit more guidance (usually just making sure she has read and understands the instructions). It's been trial and error, but I feel we are settling into a routine now.

1:1 attention is great. I try to ensure that there's still a mix of totally independent, supported/prompted and then more guided. Obviously, I take my Los lead and often am surprised that as long as I assume they can do it, they often excel. Though am. Also often surprised by what lo then finds challenging.
This is the only way to effectively managing wfh and homeschooling at the same time.

I'm a teacher but off sick long term due to some serious recent health issues. I have a primary age child who I am spending almost the whole day with to broaden and deepen his understanding in his learning. He's making quite a lot of progress and I'm pushing him to challenge himself more than I know he's pushed at school (he'd always take the easy option and is quite happy to coast along). His teachers have been fantastic, but I have the time so think it would be a missed opportunity to allow him to work independently for everything.

Also have a Y1 child and giving one on one for around 1.5-2 hours per day. There are a minimum of two daily Zoom classes which I don’t supervise and we tend to skip quite a bit of the topics if needed to focus on maths, phonics and reading.

Just to add that mine won’t work independently (youngest in the class and a very immature five year old at that) so needs me there constantly as too many distractions with siblings home. Teacher assures me she isn’t the same when there though.

Apart from the time we do one on one, the rest is independent playing with toys or watching tv (I’m also working).

A lot of help. Trying to bridge the gap as much as possible, but it has its challenges.

I'm doing the same with my Year 1 DD - we talk through what she's supposed to be doing first to make sure she's understood it then I will step in if she's made a mistake, encourage her to go into more detail etc etc.

What I am trying to do is get her to cross out mistakes when she's correcting them rather than just rub them out - that way her teacher (we upload all her work) can see where she's initially made a mistake but we've corrected it - I'm also trying to get her to spot what mistakes she's made as well.