Welcome to Skylark x Home Education!
This is the place for all mental health resources to help on your home ed journey… but, to be honest, you can also use them if your child’s at school!
Our school/home ed journey has been bumpy, if yours also feels like a mess and you just need to know you’re not alone, or to get some tips, you can grab our ‘Parents Survival Guide’ here 👇🏼
We felt like we’d been thrown into the deep end and were sinking fast when our second child went to school.
I sat with the kids to think about some of the things they thought, felt, said and did during those earlier years and how we’ve managed to survive all the chaos that came our way!
We hope it helps you feel less alone and more empowered while you find your feet in this season.
* Our eldest 2 didn’t go back to school after Covid, our 3rd went to preschool and was due to start in September 2020 but didn’t, and our youngest was signed up for a preschool but then they couldn’t open for another year so she hasn’t been to any nursery/preschool/school setting. *
This is a resource I use with my guys:
Learning journey - things I’m asking them to spend their time doing each day (for me it’s practical things like make their beds, put clean clothes away - and then BSL, Maths, English and Duolingo) - and why I’m asking. (This is also helpful to show the Local Authority)
Things they want to spend time doing and why.
Thinking about them - what excites them? What interests them? What do they want to learn more about?
Their goals for this month
Adventures they want to go on this month
End of the month run down - how did they get on with their goals? What skills did they learn? What did they love? What did they hate?
A daily checklist - my biggest one to stop hearing, “what do I need to do now/what are we doing today?” These have ‘Gratitude’ ‘Reconnect’ ‘Journal’ and ‘Move’ already on there to go with the home ed A5 planner.
Shopping list to stick on your fridge - if anyone uses the last of something, stick it on the list!
To - Do list
Daily jobs - another for the fridge - in our house we stick this on and everyone ticks of one (they choose any) each day.
Deep clean jobs - this one is mainly for me, but I’ve found that if I have something like this on the fridge, one of them will randomly follow it and do that job. It’s rare… but it happens!
Budget planner - for them to begin learning about financial literacy.
These are things that have just helped streamline our rhythm instead and filter out a lot of questions that they don’t need to ask me! With 4 people asking me questions all day my head can get fried - so I created each of these with a purpose of building responsibility, accountability and to help me cling to my sanity!
Incase it helps - my kids are currently 8, 10, 12 & 14 and they all use all of these resources.
Every 2 months we’ll add the next 2 months’ worth to buy.
This download has the 4 reading journals that we currently use - the idea is that for people with more kids (like us!) you can save on what you’re buying if your kids would prefer different reading journals.
There’s 40% off when you buy all the versions of any of our downloads!
*** it comes as 1 file, so check after you’ve downloaded the PDF what pages you want to print before you start! ***