Homeschooling can be tough. You have to oversee your children’s learning AND get your own work done. Meanwhile, the house work is piling up. Perhaps this little rhyme will help you get through the daily challenge. A is awake; another “school” day,B is for breakfast, but not to delay C is for classroom (wherever you’re able)D is for desk (the dining room table)E is for exercise, dance round the houseF is for flexing your time with your spouseG is for gasping, “that’s not how I learned it!”H is for having a break; boy you’ve earned it!I is for inside, you miss the outdoors,J is for juggling: school, job and choresK is for kitchen, the teetering piles,L is for laptop, “but don’t touch my files!”M is for managing daily dramatics,N is for numbers, equations, quadratics!O is for online, for FaceTime and Zoom,P is pyjamas, not in the classroom!Q is for questions, you don’t have the answers,R is rewatching those internet dancersS is the school run, the one thing not missed,T is for tasks, did you get through the list?U’s for uploading their work to the school,V is vexatious, “This ruddy e-tool!”W’s for words, and your rooms full of phonics,X is for exit; hello gin and tonics!Y is for YOU time, a break from the drain,And Z is for Zzzz till it all starts againSee alsoAn expert’s guide to homeschooling for beginnersA teacher’s guide to relaxed homeschooling (yes, really)The best TV shows to support homeschoolingHow to balance your job with your new role as a homeschool teacher
Homeschooling can be tough. You have to oversee your children’s learning AND get your own work done. Meanwhile, the house work is piling up. Perhaps this little rhyme will help you get through the daily challenge.
