If you've started or you're planning on starting homeschooling your kids you
might find it a little overwhelming. I've got 10 tips that's going to help
make homeschooling more fun and a little less challenging
for both the kids and yourself. So let's get started.
Tip number one. I'm going to start with the most obvious one, is to fix your school timings.
Kids need a routine they need to know when school will be starting and when school
will be ending. Just like they have a routine for dinner, lunch, bedtime.
If it's set, stick to it, make it happen and this will work
for both you and your kids.
Tip number two. Prepare a learning plan for every day well beforehand,
whether it's the night before
or the week before have it all laid out of what you're planning to teach
Remember kids cannot sit for more than 20 minutes so try to make each session
no longer than 20 minutes long. Having a learning plan in front of you every day
will help your day go a lot smoother. Remember kids will get frustrated really
easily. If you've turned your back and you're trying to find something in a
book or if you're doing a google search
trying to find worksheets for them to do, this will make them lose their
concentration it will get them out of the learning mode
and it's going to be very hard for you to bring them back my best advice is
have a learning plan beforehand.
Tip number three when you're starting a
new topic consider watching a short video first
to give your kids a little bit of a foundation of what the topic is about
and it'll also give you some tips on how to teach the topic
Now this can be a short video that you can find on YouTube no more than two
three minutes long and watch one or two videos if you need to
but this will definitely help the kids visually and
also helps them understand what it is they're about to learn.
Tip number four. Use stickers to motivate your kids.
Kids love stickers always give them a sticker whenever they've completed an
activity and sticker charts are great too kids can see all their stickers add
up and then if you want you can give them a reward once all their
sticker chart has been completed.
Tip number five. Provided you have a printer I would really recommend that you
consider investing in a laminator. Laminators are great not only for
displaying posters but they're also great for making up
activities which can be used over and over again.
They can just be erased and then used again and again. This one, I got from Amazon.
It's really easy to use and also easy to clear paper jams.
I'll leave a link in the description below if you guys want to check it out it's
really cheap and it's very small and compact it doesn't take up any space at all.
And if you can't invest in a laminator
then the other option you can always use are whiteboards. Whiteboards are also great.
They do the exact same thing. Kids love
using whiteboards they love erasing and they love using whiteboards.
This keeps them engaged and also keeps them more alert.
Tip number six. I'm gonna put this in here because you have no idea how much
time you're going to be saving and how much of a pain reliever for your
hands having an electric sharpener is going to be.
This is nice and small. This is a compact one I found on Amazon.
You should definitely get one and add it to your homeschool.
Tip number seven. Try to set up a classroom environment with a desk.
With a table and chairs if you can. But kids need a desk and a chair to be
able to sit and work on comfortably.
These tips that I'm sharing with you are
just some of the things that I learned over the last
four or five months while homeschooling my kids. I have no teaching experience.
But these are the things that I found to make my
environment more fun and motivated my kids to want to continue homeschooling.
Obviously, you need to do what works for you. You need to do what's more feasible
and manageable for you. Depending on your home routine if you
have any other kids that you need to take care of, if you're working alongside
but these are just some of the things that I found to make homeschooling
a little bit more manageable. I will be sharing more tips and teaching
methods that I used and also I'll try to make a video of my classroom
setup that I have. So please do subscribe with your
notification bell turned on if you are interested in watching those.
and if you have any other comments or if anybody wants to share any other tips
please do so in the comments below.
Okay continuing on to tip number eight now.
Kids like change. Both physical changes and visual changes.
Visual changes if you have any posters
on the wall make sure you're constantly updating them
changing them around. For physical changes try to move to a different room
do a lesson downstairs maybe on your dining table or take the lesson outside
and do your lessons outside. For sure it'll keep things interesting and the
kids will feel less confined.
And this brings me on to tip number nine.
So try to do lessons that are not textbook lessons.
Meaning that they're not working from a textbook. They're doing lessons
either outside or in the kitchen or somewhere out of the room and their not
looking at a textbook. And even let the kids take over the
class and let them teach a lesson as well because that also motivates them
and there is still a little bit of learning going on it also
brings in other skills like leadership, listening skills and communicating.
So these are also skills that they need to develop
and role-playing is the best way for kids to learn.
[the next word is....] And my final tip,
Tip number 10 is which I found so so
useful and my kids love the idea as well is that
make Fridays a half-day and through the half-day
instead of teaching, make it a revision and test day.
So you're basically doing a revision of everything you learned through the week
and then you're testing their knowledge to see if they remembered it.
So just like adults love to take Friday afternoons off from work,
kids also would love to have a Friday afternoon off too.
And for the test, you're making it as relaxed as possible.
Nothing intense, it's just fun and games and what my kids love is getting a score
at the end of the tests and you're only going to do probably two
or three or you might want to focus on the ones that where you feel
that the kids need a little bit more help with.
Alright guys, thank you so much for watching.
I hope to catch you in the next video.