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So I'm sure many of you have also been blind sided with getting to teach your kids at home now. It has been a pretty difficult transition for us. Still trying to get a schedule nailed down for the kids. My wife is Thai and has been little help with the kids schooling. I'm just glad they are in K and second grade. They will have time to bounce back from this. Anyhow thought I'd start a thread, how are you guys dealing with the sudden homeschooling transition?
 
Education.com look at week to week study packets by grade level.
IXL is free right now for parents and teachers. Excellent site. Search by grade level.
Embarc.online has math every module taught in several states up to eighth grade.
Successmaker may be free for parents.
Benchmarkuniverse has reading K and up.
Let me know if you need any help.
 
Logan44551 said:
So I'm sure many of you have also been blind sided with getting to teach your kids at home now. It has been a pretty difficult transition for us. Still trying to get a schedule nailed down for the kids. My wife is Thai and has been little help with the kids schooling. I'm just glad they are in K and second grade. They will have time to bounce back from this. Anyhow thought I'd start a thread, how are you guys dealing with the sudden homeschooling transition?
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Were taking it in stride and doing our best. But it certainly is difficult when all they want to do is run outside or play video games/watch a movie. We’ve signed up for free trials at some of the more common learning sites that incorporate game based learning and that has seemed to work so far.
 
I don't have kids, but I think it's about time the traditional classroom experience come into the 21st century. Schools cost far too much to staff and maintain, we could hire the best teachers in the country for every subject and move everything to online, drastically decreasing our taxes and college costs with opensource texts that can constantly be revised. Set up virtual labs. Set up testing centers in every community for a small charge.

Get rid of teachers unions, lobbyist and lets make education completely open regardless of ability to pay.
 
Best thing you can do is try to keep the same(ish) routine as if school were open. Get kids to bed a decent hour, feed them a real breakfast. Then have them knock out school work before any video games, tv, etc.

The first few weeks when there was no home schooling it was like summer vacation so once we got them back on schedule/routine it's been fine.

FWIW, I have two in elementary and one in middle school.
 
Kim said:
Education.com look at week to week study packets by grade level.
IXL is free right now for parents and teachers. Excellent site. Search by grade level.
Embarc.online has math every module taught in several states up to eighth grade.
Successmaker may be free for parents.
Benchmarkuniverse has reading K and up.
Let me know if you need any help.
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My daughter is loving IXL.
 
One thing that would be nice is a somewhat curriculum from the schools. They have given us very little for my 4th grader but my sophomore has had actual scheduled classes. Now that school is called off for the rest of the year maybe they will let us know what they need to move onto the next year
 
Uglyrichie said:
One thing that would be nice is a somewhat curriculum from the schools. They have given us very little for my 4th grader but my sophomore has had actual scheduled classes. Now that school is called off for the rest of the year maybe they will let us know what they need to move onto the next year
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Very different with my district. I teach third grade. I have a curriculum assigned to each student via Clever. From there they go to what we were using in the class. I use Zoom to hold classes everyday. I talk to parents everyday. Sorry that’s happening to you.
 
He has clever and a couple of other things so far he has had 2 assignments 1/2 hr reading spelling and math. Which are optional. Talk of zoom but nothing in the last 3 weeks. Now it's spring break. We water expecting to go back to school after spring break but the governor called it for the rest of the year yesterday
 
Kim said:
Very different with my district. I teach third grade. I have a curriculum assigned to each student via Clever. From there they go to what we were using in the class. I use Zoom to hold classes everyday. I talk to parents everyday. Sorry that’s happening to you.
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My wife teaches kindergarten (she's a DECE) and they have recently started sending out an online curriculum for the kids and parents..
 
My son is in SK. 30 mins by zoom a day. My mother is a retired secondary school teacher. Wife was in biology before the farm. They are doing a fabulous job. I have honestly myself taken this opportunity to get him out on the tractor and doing as much farm work as possible during the day to teach him the other side of things..... Same routine though, bed early and up early.

From this perspective alone it has been the most fun I have had in years! This is my first 2 weeks off in 15 years and the most time I have ever been able to spend with my little guy.
 
martino said:
I don't have kids, but I think it's about time the traditional classroom experience come into the 21st century. Schools cost far too much to staff and maintain, we could hire the best teachers in the country for every subject and move everything to online, drastically decreasing our taxes and college costs with opensource texts that can constantly be revised. Set up virtual labs. Set up testing centers in every community for a small charge.

Get rid of teachers unions, lobbyist and lets make education completely open regardless of ability to pay.
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That would never work

No child is going to sit and do their work at home on a computer without constant supervision. They need an authority figure present to compel them to do the work

Could work for adults, but it already exists with the open university etc and it's far far less popular than traditional university
 
Human_backhoe said:
My son is in SK. 30 mins by zoom a day. My mother is a retired secondary school teacher. Wife was in biology before the farm. They are doing a fabulous job. I have honestly myself taken this opportunity to get him out on the tractor and doing as much farm work as possible during the day to teach him the other side of things..... Same routine though, bed early and up early.

From this perspective alone it has been the most fun I have had in years! This is my first 2 weeks off in 15 years and the most time I have ever been able to spend with my little guy.
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That's awesome , and I love your perspective. I see so many people online bitching about being "stuck" at home with the kids. I am really grateful as well to be spending so much time with them. Teaching isn't my strong suite at all. We are figuring it out though. Reading to my son a lot, trying to get him to start reading on his own and recognize his sight words. My daughter is pretty much on auto pilot with IXL, reflex and a couple other websites.
 
I also want to give a shout out to my wife. She's bearing the majority of the burden of home schooling. And while I'm secretly laughing listening to her and the kids figure things out, I'm proud of her. Just yesterday she (re)learned the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
 
Logan44551 said:
Saw this earlier and made me laughView attachment 128145
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100% this.

By the way, my wife asked me if this was a trick question.

Timmy had 36 pieces of candy. He wants to give 3 of his friends an equal share of candy. How many pieces should he put in each of the 4 baskets?

Once I said, no, not a trick question. Timmy wants candy for himself, she said, "Ooooohh, that makes sense. So is 36 divided by 4, its 9, right?"
 
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