When lockdown started, we decided to call our homeschooling program “Birdsong Academy.” Each day we used a whiteboard to describe what the day’s agenda was, and it was typically pretty low key. It usually went something like this:
Read for an hour
Break
Move your body for an hour
Break
Learn something for an hour
Draw, read, write, or jump on the trampoline
Play harp
We got into a pretty good routine over time. Kids like structure, who knew? But on Sunday we realised that Birdsong Academy was ending, so we put together a graduation ceremony. I printed out diplomas for each of the kids and each of us told each kid what we were proud of. Then I played graduation music and we watched a little movie about our time on lockdown.
Onward!
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