I read an article from @tired_momma titled "School Days for Students and Parents. She shared about her journey with her kids as they have their schooling. I really agree to her that this time of pandemic, it's like both parents and kids are schooling, are learning.
For almost 2 months of having classes, me and my kids have somewhat adjusted to our routines everyday.
For my Grade 1 student, he usually have an online meetup through Google Meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for an hour. They usually have meet and greet, lessons, quiz and games. After every meeting, he will view video lessons. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we should wake up early so that Eilan can start at 7:00am viewing his lessons so that we can submit the picture to her teacher for attendance before I go the office at 8:00 A.M. Any unfinished tasks for a day will be done at night. All the books and outputs will be collected every Saturday afternoon.
For my Kinder 2 student, she has modules of which everyday she will answer certain pages. Every Wednesday, they will have their meetup with the teacher and the teacher usually gave lesson and then a particular activity will follow. Modules are returned and picked up at her school every Monday.
So, as you can see, I also study with my kids. During their online session I usually schedule myself for work from home for those days so that I can assist them in their classes, but they are the ones really interacting with the teacher. I also assist them in their tasks and in the process the little kid in me is also happy. I also enjoy their activities. Here are some of the activities that I enjoyed.
Planting Mongo Seeds
One of Eilan's task for school is Planting Mongo seeds. For 5 days, he observed the progress of the Mongo seeds. He was so happy seeing the improvement each day. He diligently water each plant and tell a story about it. This activity let him appreciate the value of taking care of plants and also appreciate the wonderful work of God of making the seeds sprout for it to grow to a plant. I enjoy watching him and documenting his observations everyday.
Memorizing Bible Verses
Every week, Eilan has a memory verse. He loves to memorize it and his sister Lianne would also join him in memorizing the verses. The memory verses are relevant to the story of creation. I would write the memory verse on a piece of paper, put in a wall, and while I am away for work I am telling him to read and memorize it.
Art Activities
Every week also, the kids have art activities. Sometimes, they will use watercolors for coloring activity sheets just like the one in the photo below. And they even put a cotton for the cloud. Before they will do this activity, they will watch the video provided by the teacher.
They also have paper cut outs. As much as possible, I let Eilan do the task of drawing and cutting papers so that he will know how to do things. Sometimes, I feel tired of waiting for him to finish but that's they way he could learn. It is emphasized as well in their class that in everything that they do, they should be honest. So I just let him do his tasks and I am there to supervise. Here are some of his outputs, a wall decor made of papers and paper objects for their shapes lesson.
Closing thoughts
As parents it is our desire that our children will learn, that's why we are sending them to school. But because of this pandemic, we shifted to the new way of learning and that learning really required our participation, especially if we have young kids. If we want our kids to learn, we should allow them to discover things on their own and not tolerate them to cheat or be the one answering the modules as what is pointed out by @LykeLyca in her article about module cheating. We should teach them how to do things on their own so that they will learn. In the process, it's not only them who are learning and enjoying, we parents are also learning and enjoying.
How about you? Do your siblings, kids, nieces, nephews, grandchildren have school tasks that you also enjoy? I would love to know your stories.
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Natuwa ako ng malamang nag mememorize sila ng mga bible verses po as young as they are. Aside from that, sobrang hands on din nila sa mga school tasks nila with your supervision. Sana ganyan lahat. Yung mga bata kasi dito samin sobrang spoiled. Sinisigawan pa yung parents nila pag hindi pa natapos module na dapt sila yung gumagawa. Jusko nakaka stress.