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Instructions and suggestions on how to proceed with distance learning:
Instructions and suggestions on how to proceed with distance learning:
As you and your family navigate these next few weeks, we encourage you to create a schedule that will fit your family best and the age of your children. Things to consider while creating this schedule:
Include your child - they have good ideas.
Plan "brain breaks" to maximize productivity.
Empower your child to follow the schedule by reading the clock (especially a clock with minute and hour hands).
Minimize distractions during work time by finding a quiet, non-distracting location to work without TV and loud noise.
Get out and MOVE - include a "recess" or "PE" time that will keep your child active, healthy, and having fun. • Post your schedule - this way children can easily know what comes next.
Build in some time to read in a fun place - Outside wrapped in a blanket; under the kitchen table; read to your bed full of stuffed animals; read to Grandma/ Grandpa over the phone.
Set limits on Movie/ TV/and entertainment screen time in order to keep a healthy balance of physical activity, creative time, and entertainment. Consider a board game, crafts, and activities that allow students free play.
If tension is getting high, pause and take a 5-10 minute break to have some alone time in separate rooms.
Be purposeful to include children in the household routines - baking/cooking can provide great real life math learning opportunities; helping with laundry; helping with cleaning; making their bed; taking out the trash; unloading the dishwasher. These are all great life skills for children to learn how to do.
Be active! Running in the backyard, kicking the ball, throwing a frisbee, playing catch, jumping rope, stretching, or playing hopscotch with chalk lines are all ways to keep our bodies healthy and our minds ready to learn. If indoors, jumping jacks, sit-ups, stretches, running up and down stairs, hopping around the house (one leg or two), or doing the crab walk can be fun ways to burn off some steam. I bet your child can make a fun list of ways to be active. Start out each morning with accomplishing some tasks.
Consider a schedule something like the following:
Bible Verse/ Bible Story
Reading Class
Brain Break (5-10 min.)
Math Class
PE break
Science/ History or English
Read for 10-15 minutes
Break (possibly lunch...)
School Work (other. distant learning assignments)
Art/ Music/ Spanish/ PE
School Work (other distant learning assignments)
Fresh Air Break! (if applicable)
It is important to find what will work for you and your child's needs. So, have fun. Try something new, and enjoy When challenges arise, help your students learn how to work towards a solution in a calm manner
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