Play to your strengths - if one of you is better at educational stuff do that, if one of you loves to be creative and get messy do that. If you are splitting the childcare and working with your partner then do half a day each.There are all my ideas on the menu bars of this website. The more prep you do the easier your day will be. Which phonics game to play or which board games you will let them choose from etc. Decide what you’re going to do for each little slot. The night before plan ahead a bit if you can.If they want to go off and play they can. I don’t expect the activity to fill the ENTIRE time slot every time.Five minutes before each activity ends I would say: it’s tidy up time and get them each to put away one or two things.4:15 screen time with decent apps or a movie while I cook dinner.1:30-2:15 TV time for kids while I clear up the messy stuff.12:30 - 1:30 Either a science fun, art, messy play or baking activity (I will give more specific ideas later).11-11:30 story time - choose books and read together.10:30-11 number and maths games (all on the menu bar of this website).10-10:30 kids out in the garden with a snack - I would get a cuppa too.Only crayons and pencils out at this point. 9:30-10 - a writing or drawing task (write something around the theme of the week) or draw a picture for little ones.9am-9:30 - a phonics, word recognition, or spellings game (all on the menu bar of this website).Mornings - breakfast, TV time, get washed and dressed as per usual Also if you have your schedule somewhere the kids can see it and you refer to it together they are more likely to get on board: This is not a rigid plan but it’s a guide to help me give some meaning and purpose to the day. This would only be the case for Monday to Friday - weekends are slower and a bit of a free for all on screen time and lazing in pjs until midday. Ok so how do the days look? Here is how I would ROUGHLY structure a day at home with the kids so it had some education, some fun, and some chill time (for them and me). I would then dig through all my books and toys to find anything I had even remotely to do with that theme and get them out. Try to see if any activity or game you do can somehow tie in with the theme. Here are ten ideas on themes: Pirates, dinosaurs, space, nature, kings and queens, the seaside, superheroes, the seasons, animals in your country, our family. It’s a little bit of a mix of what I did in classrooms and what I do to survive as a stay at home parent.įirstly choose a theme for the week. I thought perhaps a helpful thing might be to show you how I would structure the days and weeks if we were to suddenly be isolated to our house. First on the list, stockpile the gin/wine/chocolate….!! □ So in order to try and help I am going to write and do a few things to give parents stuck at home with kids an idea of how to not go totally insane. I feel it could be imminent for us here in the UK too. I’ve been getting an increasing number of messages from people who are at home with kids in lockdown.
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