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Homeschool Tip #3: Homeschooling with Active Toddlers (montessori activities, trampoline, park, schooling outside)
Incorporating Toddlers in Homeschool Day
Homeschooling moms with active toddlers struggle to have consistency with effective homeschool time. The opportunities to begin…pause for a crisis…start over…pause again over and over…are endless. Then comes the temptation to quick temperedness or leaving a young child to complete an assignment alone when he needs help or even leaving little ones in front of a screen to get school done. None of these will accomplish our goals! I have 5 tips to help you structure your homeschool time that will include your toddler rather exclude him.
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- Use a “Circle Time” at home to begin your homeschool day. This is a great way to include younger children so they don’t feel like “outsiders” or “in the way” of school. At Regina Caeli we have so much oral memory work and prek material that can include younger siblings (i.e. songs, counting, 10 little fingers, poetry, calendar, counting money, even some flash cards!). It’s more fun for the family to do these oral activities together.
- Have a “special binder” of extras like mazes or tracing in plastic protector sheets for dry erase markers for 3-5 year olds and keep it with your book cart or supply bin for homeschooling. When little ones have a self-paced activity they can do for “school” like the big kids, they feel included in the activity and there is less interruption in your school time. Alphabet Maze pages courtesy of Confessions of a Homeschooler. If your preschooler is trustworthy with a dry erase marker, make him responsible for keeping with his binder in the book cart.
- Have an morning routine “infographic” for children too young to read or “picture labels” or nomenclature cards that indicate the location or name for items. This is a game changer for the many morning delays that can happen with a toddler or a large family. The reminder to brush your teeth doesn’t need to be verbal! Just hand the infographic to your little one and they will show you the progress. Mine even brings me the toothbrush when it’s time to brush his teeth!
Morning Routine Infographic
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- Have a buddy system – if you have children that are 6 or older, schedule a 10 minute snack break for the older child and a toddler while you read a bible story or write a retelling for another child, work on math corrections
Buddy Break idea:
