After teaching our children for ten years I learned how to make
the routine of homeschooling a little easier. Prioritizing your jobs is
the first and most important. From that list of jobs, sort out what the
children can do for you. Sort out what needs to be done, hourly, twice
daily, daily, everyday, weekly, periodically.
When I started home schooling it was more out of necessity than choice as we live so far from a type of normal school. Our lives where fairly crazy for a year or so until I/we got a grasp on things. Planning is the success to anything, so I planned things the best I could.
My day would begin with putting a load of washing on, it would wash away while I got breakfast sorted for my family. After breakfast one child would take the dogs for a walk and the other would unpack and re-pack the dishwasher, while I put the washing on the line and put another in the washing machine. The children doing something physical before school served two purposes, 1. it got them active and woke them up for school. 2 it helped me to get my jobs done.
School started at 8am. We had a timetable for that, we started with the most difficult subject first, for one child it was maths, the other one was spelling. Lessons where scheduled around their on-air lessons that they had with their teacher each day over the phone. Morning tea was at 10am or 10.30am depending on the on-air lessons. I tried to have cakes, biscuits etc for morning tea cooked on the weekend and stored in the freezer. The next session was usually a bit more interesting like science. A lot of the time we would finish school for the day at 1pm. Sometimes though we would go back into the schoolroom and do an art or craft activity. Lunch was usually a sandwich, I tried to cook some meat on the weekend to use as cold meat during the week.
After lunch if I was going to be out the slow cooker came in handy. Go through your receipts and see which ones are really easy and quick. Copy them somewhere where they are easy to find when you need a meal quickly. Check out magazines when you get a chance to read them for easy and really quick meals.
Prep school work the day before when you have finished lessons, and/or the weekend before.
That washing you put on the line as you where on your way to the school room, get the kids to take it off for you, take a chair to the line if they are too short to reach from the ground. If they are watching TV, get them to get their washing and fold it while they are watching TV. After all, it is what you do and it is their clothes.
I learned that it was really important to be adaptable, and not to get upset about something that can really be done tomorrow, and hey, does it really need to be done at all, did you create the job in the first place.
Remember children learn from your actions, not so much what you tell them. Learning is as much out of the class room as it is in the class room. But most important thing I learned in 10 years of home schooling, you are first and foremost Mum, and whatever happens in the school room should never take away or sacrifice that role.
When I started home schooling it was more out of necessity than choice as we live so far from a type of normal school. Our lives where fairly crazy for a year or so until I/we got a grasp on things. Planning is the success to anything, so I planned things the best I could.
My day would begin with putting a load of washing on, it would wash away while I got breakfast sorted for my family. After breakfast one child would take the dogs for a walk and the other would unpack and re-pack the dishwasher, while I put the washing on the line and put another in the washing machine. The children doing something physical before school served two purposes, 1. it got them active and woke them up for school. 2 it helped me to get my jobs done.
School started at 8am. We had a timetable for that, we started with the most difficult subject first, for one child it was maths, the other one was spelling. Lessons where scheduled around their on-air lessons that they had with their teacher each day over the phone. Morning tea was at 10am or 10.30am depending on the on-air lessons. I tried to have cakes, biscuits etc for morning tea cooked on the weekend and stored in the freezer. The next session was usually a bit more interesting like science. A lot of the time we would finish school for the day at 1pm. Sometimes though we would go back into the schoolroom and do an art or craft activity. Lunch was usually a sandwich, I tried to cook some meat on the weekend to use as cold meat during the week.
After lunch if I was going to be out the slow cooker came in handy. Go through your receipts and see which ones are really easy and quick. Copy them somewhere where they are easy to find when you need a meal quickly. Check out magazines when you get a chance to read them for easy and really quick meals.
Prep school work the day before when you have finished lessons, and/or the weekend before.
That washing you put on the line as you where on your way to the school room, get the kids to take it off for you, take a chair to the line if they are too short to reach from the ground. If they are watching TV, get them to get their washing and fold it while they are watching TV. After all, it is what you do and it is their clothes.
I learned that it was really important to be adaptable, and not to get upset about something that can really be done tomorrow, and hey, does it really need to be done at all, did you create the job in the first place.
Remember children learn from your actions, not so much what you tell them. Learning is as much out of the class room as it is in the class room. But most important thing I learned in 10 years of home schooling, you are first and foremost Mum, and whatever happens in the school room should never take away or sacrifice that role.
After homeschooling our children for ten years, I would like to
share with you ideas, tip, reviews and links to useful resources for
your school room. You will find these and much more at
[http://www.homeschoolinginoz.com]
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