With no ‘Formal’ training or teaching experience and no time to actually get any I decide my best strategy to this Home Schooling I’ve committed to is to jump right in. After a few hours (well what felt like a few hours but was actually only 15 minutes), I felt like I just jumped into a cold pool and no matter how much I moved around, it was never going to warm up. 3 kids 3 different grades (5th, 3rd and 2nd) and a baby – I had a BRILLIANT PLAN: Assign each child an assignment, pull each aside for an individual lesson, be available for questions, play with the baby, repeat. BRILLIANT REALITY: Assign 1st child an assignment, before I could assign 2nd child assignment 1st child had questions, assign 2nd child work and answer questions from 1st child, 2nd child is finished with work and needs more, 1st child also completed work and needs more, 3rd child never received any work to begin with and the baby is desperately seeking attention from child 1, 2 and 3…lose my mind, repeat.
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Unfortunately I find myself homeschololing my Kindergartner every night! We are over a mont into school and have not had one assignment beside once a wk homework that isn’t coloring! Less than impressed. I will be following you And learning. Sometime when not teaching we need to get together!
It doesn’t help I spelled schooling wrong! Fat fingered it-I can spell!
Welcome to the reality of homeschoolong, but trust me, you WILL find your groove!
I had levels spread out all at once too. One thing that really helped was a sandbox on a deck off the room we used for school. The little ones used it all the time, except when it was snowing. They even ate their lunches out there. The deck was enclosed so they couldn’t escape either. True – they brought a lot of sand into the house, but the olders managed to get through A Beka algebra, geometry and chemistry – which is not an easy thing to do under the best of circumstances!
Thank you so much for sharing, this is truly a ‘learn as I go’ and I am open to any all help I can get!! I love the sandbox idea and the ‘lunches outside’!