Stay at home dad needing advice
Hey y’all I just have a question regarding curriculum and I guess needing advice for day to day.
Quick background: we have a unique situation where my wife is a travel nurse so we decided to sell our house this past month and got it on the market. We live in hotel suites with her so we get to travel and make new friends wherever we go. We’ve been homeschooling (me as the teacher/SAHD) our 2 daughters for the past 2 years. My oldest is almost done with 1st grade and we have been using time4learning as our curriculum to follow. She did kindergarten using T4L and it was really good. It gave print-out activities for teachers to do with kids as well as the online videos, tests, and quizzes. For 1st grade it’s okay but I feel like this year has been too reliant on the online video lesson aspect. There are printable worksheets that we do but it’s not really an activity lesson that I set up or anything. T4L has been good for her reading as she is reading a chapter book called white fox and is in 1st grade. (Way beyond what I was reading at her age), as well as other books. She can figure out new words pretty quickly too. But she struggles with basic arithmetic and I feel like the curriculum touches on basic math concepts including algebra and geometry but there isn’t enough repetition to make it stick if that makes sense. Idk if it dives deeper for second grade or what.
I guess that falls more so on me though for not making it a lesson, but it’s kind of hard when the topics for the day are vague descriptions of what it will cover. I guess my question is are there any curriculums that yall have found cater more to this aspect? Like I was thinking of switching to an offline curriculum where I have a handbook or something that guides me to setting up the lessons. Then using online learning games as supplementary computer fun.
My youngest will start kindergarten this upcoming school year and I feel like I have dropped the ball with her as far as education, granted she hears a lot of what I teach my oldest and will sometimes sit with her and watch her learning videos. I did sign my youngest up for pre-k on T4L but it’s pretty weak in my opinion and she gets bored with it easily. I try to do more drawing, play dough, painting, play type stuff with her, as well as pre k workbooks to help with her writing.
I guess I just feel like I haven’t done enough this year with them and that they haven’t gotten the most consistent education. I’ve felt so burned out and it takes a lot for me to just get out of bed and get them started. We go to bed late and sleep in (which we are working on right now). There’s so much I want to introduce them to as well but im going day to day just running on fumes it feels like.
My oldest is also in cub scouts but that’s been challenging with all the moving. Feel free to give any general advice or criticisms too as I already criticize myself for sleeping in when my wife has to go to work lol. Also sorry for the long post, I guess it could’ve been two separate posts but I’m just trying to type it out so I don’t forget lol. Thank yall!