I've lost my voice for the past 5 days . . . . . . . . :roll: What do you do when you are sick? . . . . Get in a relief teacher?? LOL :lol: Or do you just try to catch up later????
Take the day or days off you need and make them up later. Take advantage of the flexibility in homeschooling.
It depends on your students. If YOU the teacher are sick, but your students are 5th grade and up, they can be expected to at least do half their work without you. They should be able to read notes written to them and follow directions. They can continue with assigned reading, math drills, reading their own textbooks, and doing reviews and pages in their workbooks with out you there. If I lost my voice, 4yo would have to wait 'til I was better, because he's learning to read. 6yo would still be expected to do his work, because he doesn't have much and he can read his own directions. He can even do his own Math work if I can make him sit down.
As Gizzy said, my kids are old enough to do a good bit of their work without my direct help. And Rachael pitches in, too, with the younger ones.
Yea, depends on the age. If my son wanted to do something when I am sick, then I pull out the workbooks (that we don't use daily) and let him do what he wants in them or basically "make up the directions" for teh activities since he can't read yet. He feels like he's doing something, and I get to rest up a little. Drink some hot tea, and don't worry about it.
I give dd what she can do herself and then maybe watch some educational videos or have some computer time for her. If I am really bad and dh takes the day off he will sometimes jump in and take over or do reading with her when he gets home.
I've been lucky to only be REALLY sick a day or so at a time so far, but on those days I've just let DS do his math (since it's pretty self-explanatory at this age), reading a fiction book, and then watching a couple of educational shows. I try to keep at least a few SS and science based ones recorded just for days when I'm sick or we're having a rough day. I feel that even at that light of a load, that's plenty to still count it as a day. If he or I ever get really sick where even that kind of day can't be done, we'll just make them up later.
My kids have checklists, so unless it is a specific "work with mom" activity, they can do a lot of their schoolwork on their own. Then I make sure my older kids help the younger kidlets. After they get that done, I put on a movie (I try to find something tied to their schoolwork, but many times, Spongebob gets me a nap!) and let them make their own meals - my kids are 13, 10 and 8, so they are pretty self sufficient now! We just make up anything we missed on our bye-week.
I have little ones, but when I am sick we skip all the book work and paper stuff and instead I put on Netflix! We can find tons of educational stuff to play for them. I also give them a stack of book they can read if they want.
My oldest two can just keep right on going unless I need help watching the younger two. If I do then the oldest two trade off with watching them and school.
It depends on the child's age and how sick I am. I would expect my 4th grader to do whatever he can work independently on, but my preschooler would have the day off. If I'm so sick that I can't even haul myself out of bed, everyone has the day off and my 4th grader would be assisting in watching his brother instead.
We use snow days because whoever is sick is "snowed" under! We just continue on from where we left off.
The older ones (9th and 7th grade) can do most of their assignments themselves. For the younger I usually give her Magic School Bus movies, educational games and/or have the older two do flash cards, games and art with her. Usually, though, the older ones get about 1/2 their assigned work done on their own mostly because the younger one needs attention and needs to be kept busy. When I feel like that's all the work I'm going to get out of them, I normally will rent a Netflix documentary for all of us to watch or a movie based on a book. I just try to keep the day 'educational'. ETA: Or I just give them the day off. That's one of the reasons we homeschool- to be flexible.
From a Public School perspective.... When I was a sub, I would try to follow the plans left for me. BUT my number one goal was to GET THROUGH THE DAY! ANYTHING I didn't get done, could be done the next day when the teacher was back. And often the teacher would leave "sub packets"...busy work just to keep the kids going while she was gone. And when I had a classroom, I didn't worry about what did/didn't get done in my absence. So, as hs'ers, I think we need to follow the same principle. NOTHING is so important that it can't be put off a day or two. If you need time to recover, TAKE IT. If your kids can work independently, GREAT. If they can't for whatever reason and that means giving the kids a day off, well guess what! LIFE HAPPENS!!! You can make it up later. If you don't take the time to recover, you'll be dragging twice as long and miss more work than just that one day or two.
I agree with everybody else. I just didn't see audio books mentioned so thought I'd throw that in there.
Ems is old enough to work on her own. If she needs help, that lesson is put aside until I feel better. Sometimes, if I am really sick, which doesn't happend often, we take the time off.
