Threw the towel in yesterday they gave us a 40 min video on adaptation of humans and animals, you had to stop the video and write stuff down every 5 mins, it would’ve took us 2 hours, my daughter had zero interest it was 2pm we wouldn’t have finished until 4pm.
They are sending out the curriculum that is expected at school, not at home. I’ve taken the decision to bin off all this sort of stuff and concentrate on reading, spelling, maths and practising her handwriting, everything else is going in the bin. It’s no fun and it’s starting to show with my daughter now, we are trying to cram so much in, it feels like we are completing stuff for sake of it instead of actually learning it’s just a tick in the box,, a bit like adult life really as long as some jobsworth can say they’ve ticked it off it doesnt matter if youve actually understood it.
All the kids will be at varying stages but as long as she has the main things I’ll be happy when she goes back, chatting to some other lads last night and they all say the same, the schools are trying to run schools at home instead of adapting the lessons to compensate for this, I really feel for those who have kids of differing ages and have to work from home as well.
