How to survive homeschooling and working

So I now have three full time jobs.

1. A parent to two kindergarten kids 
2. Teacher/homeschool professor to two kindergarten kids
3. my other 40hr week job which now I work from 1pm - 9pm 

Our first responsibility is to ourselves.   We can't do much if we get sick either through carelessness or accident.

Now the hard part has been telling the kids whats going on and why they are not going to school anymore.  Truth be told my kids have taken it very well and they don't seen scared or bothered by it. It did take some explaining to them on why they can't play on the playground, but they seems to get it.

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What we told them was their is a virus that is making people sick. Just like a normal sickness that any of us can get, but this one is new and they don't have medicine for it yet.  We can only catch it from other people or things they have touched. That why we need to keep our distance and wash our hand more often.  The asked if they could get sick. Our response was they can get sick, but they would probably not get very sick either would Mom or Dad. They people who would get really sick would be older people.  They said like their Great Grandmas. So we told them that we would be doing school from home for awhile.  And we couldn't go to the neighborhood park without having sanitizer with us.

Home Schooling

Now that I found out I am going to be teaching the kids the rest of the year let the fun begin.
First was coming up with a schedule.  My wife and I did a lot of quick searching to find  tons of different approaches to this.  So the first two weeks was just us. The schools were trying to figure out what to do and this happened during our Springbreak which delayed the schools responce .

We descided to make each day unquie, but use the same basic subjects.

Start the day about the same time as normal school hours 8am.

• Wake up at 7am and have breakfast
• 8:00am - school start 
• 8:00 - 8:30 - Circle time - start the day ask question on the previous day, weather, pleage of allegance.
• 8:30 - 9:00 - Yoga/Stretching
• - not this was way to much time and change it our second week to 8:00-8:30 for these two times
• 9:00 - 9:30 - one of these four (Math/Literacy/Social Studies/Art/Science)
• 9:30 - 10:30 - snack & recess (had to do it in the basement since it was cold or snowy
• 10:30 - 11:30 - two subjects (Math/Literacy/Social Studies/Art/Science) each for 30mins
• 11:30 - 12:00 - freetime
• 12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch Recess
• 13:00-14:30 - Nap/Quiet time
• 14:30 - 15:30 - two subjects (Math/Literacy/School assigned computer work) each for 30mins
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Snack & Stretching
• 16:00 - 16:30 - one of these four (Math/Literacy/Social Studies/Art/Science)
• 16:30 - 17:00 - freetime
• 17:00 - 18:30 - Dinner/Brush teeth/Jammies/Baths
• 18:30 - 19:00 - Family Game/show 
• 19:00 - 19:30 - Book
• 19:30 - Bed
• Parents - Plan any changes

This was our first week and it went well, but we felt we need to remove big gap of stuff in the middle of the day and the morning circle time/stretching was to long.   Our schdule change to something like this

• Wake up at 7am and have breakfast
• 8:00am - school start 
• 8:00 - 8:30 - Circle time/Yoga Stretching - start the day ask question on the previous day, g 
• 8:30 - 9:30 - (Math/Literacye)
• 9:30 - 10:30 - snack & recess (had to do it in the basement since it was cold or snowy
• 10:30 - 11:30 - two subjects - Literacy and one of these (Social Studies/Art/Science) each for 30mins
• 11:30 - 12:30 - Lunch Recess
• 12:30 - 13:30 - Nap/Quiet time
• 13:30 - 14:30 - (Math/Literacy/School assigned computer work) each for 30mins
• 14:30 - 15:00 - Snack & Stretching
• 15:00 - 17:30 - Freetime/quite time
• 17:00 - 18:30 - Dinner/Brush teeth/Jammies/Baths
• 18:30 - 19:00 - Family Game/show 
• 19:00 - 19:30 - Book
• 19:30 - Bed
• Parents - Plan any changes

Then the school stared providing material.  We only change a little. We include the Zoom meetings with teacher and class into the time.  Starting being flexible it lessons go over the time layout. Since we have breaks sometimes they are only 45min instead of an hour. It has been important to be flexible. I was very stressed the first week with the teachers material because allot of there resources required different login for different site and each kids having different ones.  I was spending all my time login and trying to get the site to work.  Sitting down with my wife and spending a night getting logins set and printout out the information helped out allot.

Games I've come up with to help my kids learn letters/words/numbers.  Zombie word shooter.  They get nurf guns where I am a zombie that can only be beat when they shot a word I'm saying.  We tapped words around a room.  Two kids mean both kids have to shot the word to defeat me.  If I catch them I eat their jelly-bean brains.  Jelly beans are the price after we are done.

Another variation is I used whiteboards with magnets letter or number and hold up words. I say a word and they have to tell me the magnet that is holding it up and shot the work to get a M&M. Or I can the magnet and they tell me the word holding it up. (i give each kid their own one to avoid one kid always answering).

Interesting times we are in.

Work has been very flexible, but not fun. I am required to go into work instead of stay at home like I was in the beginning.