Comments on: Virtual School Organizing https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/ Author and DCIS Patient Advocate Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jennifer Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-99 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:32:57 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-99 In reply to Sierra.

We ended up piecing together our furniture for home learning over many years. It helped us spread out the cost. As a kid grew old enough for their own desk, we would add one. But, I still find us using the couch, even in high school! So glad that these ideas were useful to you. Hope that your year of remote learning is going well!

]]> By: Jennifer Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-98 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:30:08 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-98 In reply to Mary Stephens.

Thank you! I loved that room! It was so multipurpose.

]]> By: Jennifer Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-97 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:29:39 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-97 In reply to Pea Green.

Kitchen table home learning (love that term) is a great way to approach it! We did that for many years. It sounds like you were able to come up with a system that worked well for you and the boys during this temporary time. Organizing can really save our sanity as we try to be productive and work at home, while managing home learning…

]]> By: Sierra https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-93 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:51:21 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-93 Great tips here, especially the point about stay flexible and using storage bins! We are doing remote learning for our 5 year old and I really didn’t want to fall into the trap of spending a whole lot buying new things, including a desk. We are currently using a second dining room table. It’s easy access to the kitchen and while we wish she could have an entire area just for herself, we’ve got to make things easy and flexible as our 2 year old is also in the mix. Some days it’s the kitchen table, other days it’s the living room. Whatever works! Thanks for these wonderful suggestions and images for examples!

]]> By: Mary Stephens https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-92 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:43:58 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-92 What a wonderful space!

]]> By: Pea Green https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-91 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:15:47 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-91 During home learning (I refuse to call what we did home schooling, it really wasn’t), the boys worked at the kitchen table and I had piles for each day of stuff they needed to do and what they’d completed. I would spend an hour on Fridays organising it all and labelling things and writing a semi-timetable. Working full time(ish, I do 90%) it was the only way to keep track.
Being organised was key and I think if they hadn’t gone back to school last month, I’d have had to step it up a level and maybe reduce my hours.

]]> By: Jennifer Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-90 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:33:06 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-90 In reply to Mikayla.

Thank you! I hoped it would be useful. I can get away with disorganization in some areas of my life, but not with school materials!

]]> By: Mikayla https://jenniferadouglas.com/virtual-school-organizing/#comment-89 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:04:50 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1165#comment-89 I love this! It’s so helpful, especially right now with covid!

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