Crisis schooling Priorities
The crisis schooling situation as an opportunity for our kids to be apprentices to us, their parents. It’s our opportunity as parents to really support our kids and listen to their passions and ideas, to help them
Parents: What do we know? What can we do? What do we think is interesting that we’d like learn more about ourselves and we’d also like to teach? How can you do things that are good for you that the kids can watch and imitate?
Kids: What is fun? How should we move our bodies? What makes you feel connected and loved? What do you want to know more about? What do you want to create? And how can we take care of you?
Learning Priorities:
- Fun: play, laughter, silliness
- Embodiment: Physical strength, confidence and prowess
- Connection: parent to child, child to child, child to family
- Discoveries: learning what children are interested in and passionate about
- Understanding: Learning about the world
- Communication: listening, engagement, sharing, story-telling, argument,
- Making: Creating meaningful artefacts
- Self-care: emotional and psychological resilience
I’m using this Medium post as a way of adding ideas and resources that fit under my learning priorities with these kids to have the best, most connected and fun time together as a family.
Fun
Unstructured play
Games, Puzzles, Lego
Music and movement
Playing with a ball
Nerf games
Adventures outside
Jumping on a trampoline
Swinging in a hammock
Embodiment
Connection
Cuddles, sharing spaces
Eating together
Clearing up, cleaning or fixing together
Reading stories
Baths
Walks, dancing,
Watching YouTube, TV or movie together
Zoom, Phone calls, Emails, Videos, Letters
Discoveries
YouTube
Books
Documentaries
Listening to others
Exploration
Experimentation
Observation
Imitation
Understanding
Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy
Duolingo ABC Learn to Read
ABC Reading Eggs
Piano Maestro
Rocksmith
Stempunks
Communication
Telephone, Zoom, Letter writing, video, play, story-telling.
Making
Music, art, stories, videos, craft, games, posters, murals, models
