5 year old school work

Homeschooling a five year old is challenging. So, it helps when you have a curriculum product that makes your life easier by providing interactive lessons that engage your child, parent resources, 24/7 access and an inexpensive monthly fee among other things. The 5 year old curriculum benefits that Time4Learning offers include:

• Activity planners and curriculum calculators that will help you stay organized and make plans for the year.
• A self-paced approach that allows your children to learn important math, language arts and science concepts at a speed that suits their needs.
• A multimedia-based curriculum that is great for all types of learning styles as well as students with special needs.
• Interactive lessons that incorporate fun cartoon characters that make learning difficult concepts easier for children.
• A focus on fundamental concepts in all the core subjects to help students meet learning objectives.
• An automated grading and recordkeeping system that makes it simple for you to keep track of your student’s progress and create homeschool portfolios.

Is Time4Learning the only online curriculum you can use when you homeschool your 5 year old? No. You can compare Time4Learning to other popular online curricula, to see which curriculum may be the ideal fit for your child. Remember that you can always choose to blend the best parts of more than one curriculum (called an eclectic approach) to truly fit the needs of your 5 year old.

Tips for Homeschooling a 5 Year Old

It doesn’t matter if you are a new or experienced homeschooler, every parent can use a helping hand. That’s why we included these additional tips. They will help you maximize your child’s homeschool experience and overcome the challenges that you might face on a daily basis. Use these tips during your homeschool year.

• Kids at this age love having fun, so create a homeschool schedule for a 5 year old that includes exciting outdoor activities, such as trips to the library and the local park.
• Use hands-on activities such as blocks, dice and board games for learning math.
• Provide plenty of breaks during the day to avoid burnout.
• Read out loud, sing songs and recite rhyming stories to build up your child’s vocabulary and communication skills.
• It’s important that 5 year olds interact with kids their own age. So, arrange social activities with other homeschoolers.
• Include computer games, apps and resources that will help your children become adept at using technology. Tech skills  become even more important as they grow older.
• Don’t get caught up in how other homeschoolers or traditional schools are teaching their kids. What works for your kids and your family is the perfect way.

Fun learning activities for 5-6-year-olds

Your child will probably have started synthetic phonic activities at school so finding time to enjoy playing with letters and sounds in games at home will really help them with that.

Other activities can help your little ones to develop key skills such as speaking, listening and numeracy. If you’re not sure what your child’s doing in school, you can find out more about it in our school section and click on their year group to disover more.

We’ve pulled together our top five ideas here and hope you’ll have fun testing them out!

1.

• Listen to and join in with rhyming stories, like Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo.
• Play rhyming games, or sing an action rhyme.
• Make silly rhyming jokes. For example: What do you call a smelly elephant? A smellyphant! What do you call an elephant watching TV? A tellyphant!

2. Phonic games

• Play snap or bingo with letters and sounds. Write letters on pieces of papers or cards, to create homemade flashcards. Make two for each letter. Use them to play snap. You could also create a bingo card with eight boxes – each one containing a letter. Put the flashcards into a pile, facing down and take it in turns to be the bingo caller.
• Play phonics fishing! Use homemade letter flashcards, add a paperclip to each, tie a magnet to some string and a stick and ask your child to ‘fish’ for a particular sound.
• Play ‘I spy’ games (for example, ‘I spy something beginning with a…’, using the letter sound) when you are out and about. For help with letter sounds, take a look at our sound chart.

Activity: Vowel sounds

Practise phonics by matching the pictures to the vowel sounds.

Activity: Phonics guidance

Learn how to say all the phonics sounds (phonemes) and letters.

3. Memory games

• Play ‘Kim’s game’. Put a few items on a tray (for example, a crayon, an apple, a building brick, a toy car). Then look, cover, remember and check!
• Talk about, photograph or write out some ‘events’ from something you have done together – can your child remember the correct order?
• Go shopping – try to remember the list together!

4. Listening games

• Play games such as ‘Simon says’ – party games are often good ways to practice speaking, listening, and memory skills, without them even noticing!
• Listen to music and talk about the instruments being played – find pictures on the internet together.

5. Action games

• Make a puppet theatre with cardboard boxes or a towel over a chair and encourage your child to make up or retell a story to you (or any willing family members!).
• Have lots of fun dressing up with clothes and props at home so that your child can dress up as a character and act out favourite stories. You can find lots of cheap props and clothes for dressing up in charity shops.
• Play games such as ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’, but write the times down for them to read instead of saying them.

6. Tactile games

• Use magnetic letters to spell names and simple words on the fridge or radiator.
• Use modelling clay to make your child’s name or simple words like mum.
• Enjoy jigsaws together and chat about finding the right pieces!

7. Screen games

• Watch TV programmes linked to books and then read the books afterwards. Little Princess, Katie Morag, and Charlie and Lola are good places to start. Talk about what they like or don’t like about the characters.
• Find story-telling sites like Little Kingdom, story-telling TV programmes, or story apps for your phone.

8. Car journey games

• Play ‘The cook’s cat is an amazing cat/beautiful cat/clever cat/daft cat…‘ and so on, and then make up your own versions (for example, ‘The doctor’s dog…‘).
• Play this noisy version of the car game, ‘Who can spot…?’. It’s great fun – but check out with the driver first before you start this one! Decide on a noise, or a word to call, when you spot the things you’re looking out for. For example, ‘Bang!’ for a yellow car, ‘Buzzz!’ for a bus, and ‘Wow!’ for a bird.
• Listen to an audiobook.

Video: Car journey games

Get ideas for fun and educational car games for kids! Educational author and parent Isabel Thomas shares her ideas to relieve the boredom of long car journeys.

9. Out and about activities

• Ask your child to find the things you need to buy when out shopping by reading the labels on products together.
• Check out your local library or community centre to find out what special activities or clubs are running.
• Try to do a few visits or find some information together to link with the topic or project work at school.

10. Reading books of all kinds together

• Carry on reading books of all kinds to and with your child: picture, pop up, information, poetry, eBooks, print books… and the levelled books brought home from school. Video or record your child reading them for fun!
• Why not choose a book from our free eBook library to share on-screen together?

Summer internship at school (training of schoolchildren)

Currently, summer practice at school continues to be relevant, although many students prefer to ignore it. Why is training needed for students? What are its goals, forms and tasks?

Content:

Forms of work at school

Care of plants or animals

Work for boys

Work for girls

School camp practice

Pro Safety

Working out on a personal plot

Other goals and objectives

Summer school practice can take a variety of forms (types). Here are the most common options.

School service forms

Plant or animal care

Plant care in the schoolyard may include watering, weeding, and fertilizing plants. If the school has a "living corner" with animals, then of course, this practice involves daily care for them.

Goals and objectives: consolidation of skills and knowledge gained in biology lessons, education of diligence and love for nature.

Boys' work

Some schools form boys' summer work crews. The children carry out minor repairs of school tables or desks and chairs under the guidance of a labor teacher. This allows them to apply the knowledge gained in the lessons of labor training in practice. They can also be involved in the manufacture of racks for book exhibitions and minor repairs of equipment in classrooms and the school foyer.

Purpose: to assist the school in repairs, to consolidate the skills of handling a working tool, to apply the knowledge gained in labor lessons and to foster industriousness in children.

Jobs for girls

Girls can be trusted with book repairs in the library, sewing curtains for classrooms and school corridors, simple cleaning of classrooms before and after cosmetic repairs.

The aims and objectives of this practice will be similar to those of the school renovation practice for boys.

School camp practice

School practice can be extended to the school children's camp. For example, children in grades 7-8 can help distribute portioned meals, set tables and collect dishes, do surface cleaning (washing tables) after lunch or breakfast.

But remember that it is strictly forbidden to involve children in washing dishes or floors!

You can involve children who are in practice in organizing holidays or organizing games with younger students. But all this should be done under the guidance of the teacher responsible for the practice, and not exceed the time allotted for it.

Any work of the child during the working off must last 1 - 1.5 hours a day for grades 5-6 and up to 3 hours in grades 8-9.

Safety Pro

Do not leave children alone during any work to avoid injury or other health problems.

Nowadays, many children have a latent allergy to dust, insect bites, pollen, which has not manifested up to this point, because the child simply has not been in contact with it.

The teacher should definitely require a certificate from the doctor about all the diseases of the children undergoing practice and be constantly with the children during the practice.

Work on a personal garden plot

Summer school practice can be replaced by the child's work on a garden plot at the parents' dacha or in the village. In this case, the student must submit a document certified by the seal and signature of the chairman of the dacha cooperative or a representative of the administration of the village where he worked.

Practice has shown that in exceptional cases this option of passing summer school practice also has the right to exist and is possible for application.

Other goals and objectives

School practice itself is very useful both for students and for the school as a whole. It teaches students to be responsible and helps to consolidate educational theoretical skills in practice. And for the school, it is useful in that it allows you to make minor repairs by the students themselves and free up people and funds for other needs of the school related to repairs.

In addition, the educational moment is very important. Students who have repaired school furniture take much better care of it during the learning process and make sure that other children keep things in order. Students who have cared for plants in a flower bed or schoolyard do not trample plants or pick flowers from flower beds. Moreover, they do not allow other children to do this!

Is it possible to waive school practice

I already know that most school fees can be waived, but what about school practice? Is it even legal that students are forced to paint the fence and clean up the territory?

Some schools offer to redeem a child from summer practice and duty. Is it possible to refuse them for free?

Andrey

There are two types of practice: provided for by the educational program and not provided. I'll tell you about both.

Aleksey Kabluchkov

lawyer

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I’ll note right away that a teacher can entrust a student with some work only with the written permission of his parents or if it is provided for in the educational program: this is written in the second sentence of part 4 of article 34 of the law on education .

Program internship

Students are required to perform work in the educational program. The school develops such a program independently. For example, in technology lessons, which used to be called labor lessons, schoolchildren are taught how to make stools, work on machine tools, sew and cook.

The older the class, the more complex work the students can do. For example, in grade 7, students are painting fabrics, and in grade 9, they are assembling an electronic device.

paragraph 26 of the letter of the Ministry of Education and Science No. MON-P-4472 dated September 26, 2017

Along with such classes, the Ministry of Education and Science suggested that schools include subbotniks, school improvement and so-called labor landings in their educational programs. That is, it may be that painting the fence is included in the educational program of your school.

The program developed by the school must comply with the state standard and the model program of the Ministry of Education. There is a register of exemplary educational programs from where the school can take ideas.

Part 5 Art. 12 Federal Law "On Education"

Register of exemplary educational programs

If the practice is provided for by the educational program, then students are required to go to it. So decided the Perm Regional Court in 2011. But the practice not provided for by the program is not considered mandatory for attendance. For example, in 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Rostov region ordered the director of one of the schools to stop the summer practice of improving the school yard, since it was not provided for by the educational program.

The purpose of labor practice is to educate and educate children, not to repair the school. Therefore, the school administration cannot draw up an educational program in order to solve its economic needs. For example, in Nizhny Tagil, schoolchildren were forced to complete the construction of the stadium. One of the students was injured, and the prosecutor's office came to the headmaster with a check.

For the work specified in the school curriculum, the student must receive an assessment. No one will rate the construction of the stadium, even if it took place during the lesson. The work included in the school curriculum cannot be replaced by cash payment, just as mathematics lessons cannot be replaced by money.

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Extortion at school: give up or hide?

Therefore, if it seems to you that children are assigned something wrong during the lessons, ask the school administration to show the educational program. If you find violations, write to the prosecutor's office or the education committee under the administration of your locality.

Voluntary practice outside school hours

Practice can take place during holidays, weekends and after class. It may or may not be included in the educational program. If not included, the school must obtain the consent of the student's parents.

Part 4 34 Federal Law "On Education"

Parental consent is usually not required for summer practice. The fact is that the minimum summer vacation time is 2, not 3 months. The exact duration of the summer holidays is determined by each school independently. Therefore, in the educational program, the school can provide practice in the summer - before the holidays.

clause 17 of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 1015 dated August 30, 2013

clause 3.1 of the main educational program

The refusal of the student's parents from extracurricular practice does not affect grades, receiving commendable letters and awards for academic success.

paras. 2.3 and 2.4 Letters of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 08-621 dated 03/30/2017

Voluntary practice cannot last more than 10 hours per week. This is indicated in footnote 2 of Table 3, Clause 10.5 of SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10.

School directors may be punished for involving schoolchildren to work during holidays without parental consent. For example, in 2017, labor brigades were formed from students in grades 6-9 of one school in the Chelyabinsk region. They had to water the flower beds on the school grounds, clean the grounds, and repair books in the school library. No one received parental consent for this. The prosecutor's office ordered to eliminate the violations and warned the director that next time he would be punished.

Sometimes schools provide an alternative: pay instead of practice. "Pay, dear parents, and then your child may not go to summer practice." But parents can simply not give consent to the child's voluntary labor. No need to pay.

Work that a schoolchild cannot do

There are jobs that a schoolchild cannot be assigned under any circumstances, even with the consent of the parents. There are norms for the weight that a child can lift at work - they are spelled out in the Decree of the Ministry of Labor No. 7. There is also a list of jobs that cannot be entrusted to children - in Government Decree No. 163.

The maximum duration of daily work, including painting fences, cannot exceed for children aged:

• from 14 to 15 years old - 4 hours;
• 15 to 16 years - 5 hours;
• 16 to 18 years - 7 hours.

par. 2 st. 94 Labor Code of the Russian Federation

Once every 45 minutes there should be a 15-minute break for rest, this is indicated by paragraph 10.27 of SanPiN 2.4.2.2821-10. The same paragraph states that schoolchildren should not be charged with cleaning toilets and common areas, as well as washing windows, lamps and removing snow from roofs.

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