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Posted by TwinMommyToBoys

Before working in healthcare, I was a teacher. I feel fairly confident in my ability to home school. Home school is you physically teaching, not a form of distance learning. I put together the bones of my entire curriculum for next year for my kids. I’m using various resources for my curriculum as I would in a classroom along with supplemental activities. I have a theme for each month, the content I will be teaching for the month with activities, games, projects, the books I plan to read etc. my kids are young and learn through play best at 3.5 so for example, number recognition, I have numbers 0-9 printed and laminated to look like a road. They love cars so we work on the identification and then tracing the laminated number with the car to get ready to practice writing and the kinesthenic movement of the number form. My curriculum is structured for 45 min 3x a week and will be expanded if needed. I also just got them kindle fire tablets that will be for educational use. So independent math/ literacy games that they can use the other 2 days a week I don’t be physically teaching them. I have selected apps and been researching and have lists for each content I plan to teach so the content on the tablet will be pre selected and will be for a 30 min use

Wow! That sounds better than most kids had last semester with remote learning. Will you still be working in healthcare or taking a leave to be home with your little ones?

Still working in health care. If they were school age like kindergarten and up I would use my PFL days and use 1 day a week or just work 2 weekend days so I could physically be present for schooling. I work every Sunday and then 2 week days on a 12 hour day. My husband has been working 12 hour days during all this from home. He works on the emergency committee at his job so he’s working non stop but will help when he can with some tasks. He goes back August 3 so this will all be me. I work a swing shift so I just don’t much sleep those days anyway since my kids are up, but I always spend 30 minutes before work since this all started doing planned activities with my kids and I am doing some pre-attending skills now needed for the content I have put together for a September start. Right now I am pretty lax in structure for summer but we still do the activities/ work so having more structure in the fall won’t be an issue for them.

And thank you! Means a lot. The way I see it is my kids won’t be going to their program in the fall (even though it was only 2 days a week) and I am their parent, I’m responsible for giving them a solid educational foundation and need to step in where school can’t right now. It’s a lot mentally I think but their learning supersedes any amount of exhaustion.

Message edited 7/22/2020 8:30:36 PM.

Posted 7/22/20 8:25 PM