Homeschool/Work From Home Day One

It has arrived....the day I have to homeschool my kids!!!  Thankfully, the schools are very organised and have provided the kids with some things to do.  However, my fear is that the work they have been given is only enough for a couple of weeks and then what.  It is 2 weeks until the 2 week Easter holiday, so I suppose we will be doing some research and loads of printing of new things to do after the Easter break.  And Lauren's school has set all of the homework on the computer, and her first lesson was music and then drama.  After she spent minutes on her music homework, she moved onto editing a Dance Moms video.

Overall the day was pretty good.  They all got up and got dressed and started working from 9 AM.  They couldn't understand why I wanted to do the register, but I did it anyways!!  They worked well for the first hour and half doing English and maths, and then Drew did some reading.  Break time was a welcome time to get up and move around.  We did do 2 laps around the block.  The afternoon was a bit less structured.  Lauren taught Drew how to do a PowerPoint to satisfy both of their computing lessons, whilst Alison did PE.

Lauren did all of the homework her teachers set out using her timetable, and in between she did editing.

So now what do we do for the next few hours???  I am going to go for a walk to collect our new keyboard and mouse from the shop because the keyboard of Brad's laptop is not working, so he needs one because Lauren is doing all of her work on the computer.

I am hoping to sit down and read the first chapter of Harry Potter aloud to them all.  I know Lauren and Drew would read, but I somehow have to figure out how to get Alison to read everyday.

And of course our American History lesson!

Didn't get around to the Harry Potter or the American History today.  But there's always tomorrow!

Brad was on conference calls ALL DAY LONG!

At the end of Day one, I am thankful for a dishwasher, the sunshine, healthy family and kids who didn't complain (much) about their homework.  It helped that Drew could go outside and play a lot of football, and Alison could do a lot of flipping inside and outside!  And Lauren was at the computer desk, doing loads of editing in between all the school work.

And my hands are SO dry, completely old lady hands right now.