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All of the advice below was shared by Learning Coaches in the program. They are the experts and will give you excellent tips and tricks on how they are succeeding.
All of the advice below was shared by Learning Coaches in the program. They are the experts and will give you excellent tips and tricks on how they are succeeding.
1) Don't panic - it will all be okay
2) Do the best you can to help the students do the best they can. So, that means not every day will be the same...we all have bad hair days, and this year, there's going to be a lot of those!
3) Take a break! Walk away if you need to. Give everyone time off for an hour, a half day, a whole day, heck even a week!
4) Smile! Just think, someone else is having a melt down right along with you and they look just as frazzled as you do!
One piece of advice I would give other parents is to have flexibility.
I am the type of person that needs a plan and be in control of things but I learned very quickly that flexibility is necessary. Every kid is different and they are still growing and developing a personality. With that, everyday comes with its own battles of ups and downs.
Sometimes my student would rather play with his toys than do school. If he’s really reluctant, I’ll somehow implement his toy into the lesson. Today, he was cutting play doh into small pieces while we were trying to do Math. Instead of fighting for his attention, we used the play doh as counting pieces and I was able to get a full lesson in.
Something that has really helped me was finding a schedule that worked. 5 days a week was too much for all of us. Instead we do a lot 3.5 days, which gives me flexibility to do the other extra activities I want to do while homeschooling. But, with this schedule, I have to make sure I am consistent or it doesn’t work too well.
Be patient with yourself and with your child. You need to be flexible and willing to try different things until you get into a groove that works for you and your child.
My advice is if frustrations rise from either yourself or your child (or both!) during a lesson, take time to have some fun- have a dance party, get a snack, get some fresh air- then come back to the lesson. You don’t just have to push through to get it done. Have some fun with it
Don't try to make homeschool fit the image you have in your mind. Be flexible. If something isn't working, adjust it. Try new things. It is crucial that your children are having a positive experience. Happy children have brains primed for learning and success! P.S. Go easy on yourself, you are doing better than you think you are!
Make a dedicated space and decorate it and organize it. It makes it so much easier for set up and makes it fun.
Something that has worked for our family is having something to look forward to once we are finished with our lessons for the day. Simple things like playing a board game, going to the park, playing with a special toy, or making something fun for lunch.
1) Go over the next day's material in the night, and have a plan to teach a Kindergartener each subject not more than 20/30 minutes. If you don't have that plan, and follow the instructions, it will take much more time and will be really difficult.
2) However little progress you make do not miss a day, missing days get piled up cumulatively.
3) Give some free time for drawing, reading, writing whatever the children want to do. When they drive something on their own, they do so with more interest.
Read the lessons through before hand and be flexible with omitting or adding based off of what your child needs. Its okay to do the bare minimum some days and its okay to go above and beyond on others.
One piece of advice I would give is to know when you all need a break. Some days get overwhelming and it's really important to step back and take some time to regroup and recharge when it is needed. I also feel the children benefit most from this. Because when they're frustrated and tired they are not absorbing as much information, and when I'm frustrated and tired I'm not able to teach them to my best ability.
My best advice is "don't be a perfectionist." My kids don't get 100% in everything, and that's okay. Done is done. Maybe if we have some time at the end of the year or this summer, we'll go back and revisit some things, but for now we're just trying to stay sane!
Having a clear plan has been extremely helpful to me. Patience has been pretty important too.
Be patient with yourself and with your child. You need to be flexible and willing to try different things until you get into a groove that works for you and your child.
What I would tell someone doing homeschool is that it is a hard new adjustment so be patient with your children and with yourself and eventually you will get a hang of things. I loved to "play school" as a child and the real deal with your own kids is not as fun. Ha ha!
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