Homeschooling ideas from EHCP Services
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If you are tech savvy and want lots of ideas and activities for your children to complete try these suggestions:
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Google classroom made by Hema Tasker auebfzi. Google Classroom can be found by clicking on the waffle and scrolling down from your gmail account. If you are not so tech savvy search for and then watch a video to help you
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For younger children lots of everyday activities can be a great way to learn, baking uses literacy and numeracy skills (see the link on google classroom explaining this). Gardening, lego building challenges all help with science and problem solving skills. You don’t have to do anything more than talk through how you are going to do something and why. Encourage your child to be brave and take a risk, if they build a bridge can they add weights to it and then try and figure out why it broke?
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If you want some games for your child to play (KS1-3) there are lots on BBC Bitesize as well videos that they can watch from the new learning platform
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For older children the exam boards have past papers and mark schemes available online encourage them to try these and use websites like Khan Academy to make notes on anything they got wrong
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If your child has a Special Educational Need and or Disability then focus on one area that will help them feel more confident when they return to school. You can encourage reluctant writers to draw and colour in and praise them for their effort, when they go back to school you can remind them how great they are at drawing. An alternative for older children is to encourage them to learn to type. For children who ‘can’t do maths’ cooking is a great way to develop confidence in numeracy skills you could make this harder by scaling up and down. For children with sensory difficulties http://www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk/covid19-resources and https://www.edutopia.org/article/diy-ways-meet-childs-sensory-needs-home
Finally remember to spend the time you have doing nice things with your children, life skills are as important as academic skills https://www.tes.com/news/covid-19-how-teach-living-skills-remotely and a morning spent gardening, flossing, reading or watching a TV programme and chatting about it afterwards is quality time spent together. Use this period of lockdown to do all the nice things you can with your children and if you need help ask for it! For any other ideas, support or suggestions please contact Hema on ehcpservices@gmail.com