School through Social Distancing Day 1
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Anyone else feel like it’s been literally a month since last Thursday,Friday and Saturday when social distancing was announced? I’m sure many of you, like our family went from daily school schedules to homeschooling planning overnight. Anyone feel overwhelmed? How many of you are just considering extra spring break and not working on any school. Who thinks this is going to blow over in a couple weeks and we will be back to school in no time? With so many emotions and stress facing our nation and our school children let’s just a pause and see what we can do to help. Just imagine the seniors this year facing the last year of their high school with graduation they’ve worked so hard for potentially canceled. Or how about the college kids who had to pick up and leave their campus and adjust to online only. Challenge is an understatement. I’m on the other side of the fence, with my three kids all in elementary school, I worry that they will have the skills needed to be ready for subsequent grades.
So what can we do with limited supplies? What can we do around work schedules and plans that have altered overnight? Can we stick to a schedule? It’s time for a plan and the simpler the better.
Each one of my grade level teachers sent some amazing activity guides. There is a wealth of knowledge all over the web offering an abundance of activities for younger grades. So what did we choose to do:
Read!!! Read!!! Read!!!
Write a Story- to make this easy adapt a story idea to help generate an idea. ie: Did you just read Diary of a Spider? Have them write Diary of a Dragon or choose any animal to research and create. Amazon has blank books already pre-made or grade some printer paper to create your own books.
Incorporate some online, digital skill. So, if you wrote about spiders, discover more facts and into online.
Explore the world around you. Get our and MOVE! Crawl like a spider or see if you can local a spider outdoors.
Move through math or practice your basic facts. Multiply through movement. Toss the ball back and forth to solve facts. Dribble the ball while practicing skip counting. Just have fun!
Then, consider making a journal or diary to wrap up the day.
This was our day in a nutshell. I was able to get some work and a workout in. But, let’s see how tomorrow goes. Hopefully we can blog our adventures in home schooling tomorrow! Current mode, building Leprechaun Traps!
