A Holistic Learning Environment
Keeping up with your children’s education outside the traditional classroom takes a lot of work and constant commitment. It requires great mental, emotional, and physical effort to bring it together.
However, other elements contribute to creating that holistic learning environment you desire for your children. A conducive learning space is more than a chair and a desk. Therefore, if you hope to join the 6.73% of homeschooled kids, here are some things to help them get the most out of it.
- Be deliberate about creating an inviting space
A gloomy space is not conducive to homeschooling activities. Therefore, create a bright, well-ventilated, and colorful home area. You may have to make a few tweaks to get it right.
The guiding principle is to make the space inviting and alluring enough to make your kids look forward to subsequent homeschooling sessions. It starts with natural daylight and getting enough of it to stream into the area for teaching and learning. However, sometimes, the light rays may become too strong and distracting.
This is when you will need the best plantation shutters to control the degree of interruptive light that shines through. Apart from that, comfortable chairs and desks are required for learning.
Their comfort must be considered if you want your child to concentrate on lessons. Kids get easily bored, which makes it imperative to eliminate potential distractions that may cause disinterest. In creating a deliberately inviting space, remember to make it distraction-free.
- Invest in storage solutions
With all the educational materials, toys, and stationery, you will need organizational skills to keep things in order. A cluttered and disorderly space is not conducive to a learning environment and can negatively impact teaching and learning.
While it’s true that having young kids increases household clutter somewhat, it is avoidable. You can do this by investing in storage solutions for your homeschooling.
Your children’s educational materials can be kept in storage containers or multipurpose cabinets for easy identification and retrieval. The trick is to clearly label each one to help with classification and identification.
If your kids are old enough to understand basic instructions, it would be best to teach them to be responsible for their learning materials. The daily habit of returning stationery and other educational materials to their rightful places will become easier to follow.
- Build a library corner
A library corner or a reading nook at home should not be something so grand. All it takes is a few rows of mounted bookshelves. The idea is to encourage homeschooled kids to develop a passion for reading in their free time.
Age-appropriate books significantly encourage reading habits and enhance your child’s education in general. It builds independence, boosts literacy skills, and teaches your kids that reading can be a fun activity.
In building a library corner, remember to put it at the child’s level. This way, they wouldn’t have to use a footstool to reach a book.
Moreover, keeping the bookshelf at eye level and within easy reach can be a positive and subtle technique to build interest in books.
Read more on the blog about how to get the most out of homeschool.
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