How To Stay Productive While Working From Home With Kids

9 Tips to Stay Productive While Working From Home with Kids

1. Start with mindset, accept your new situation and potentially new productivity level.

2. Schedule a work out time whether before, lunch, or after work. Change your clothes

3. Create a daily docket of activities for yourself to feel productive accomplished and fulfilled.  Determine your work day hours start-up and shut down signals

4. End your day before you start

5. Share your boundaries

6. Increase your focus

7. Create a Family Workspace

8. Keep a Master Task List

9. Listen to yourself

My Daily Docket

• Workout 30 min (Yoga, Walk 3 miles, or Sweat App)

• (6) 20 ounce water bottles a day

• Smoothie or protein focused breakfast

• Vitamins before 3 pm

• Write for 30 minutes

• Read for 30 minutes

• 1 load of laundry

• Connect with someone

Kids Homeschool Routine

Monday - Friday Schedule

• Wake up no later than 8am (Breakfast, showers, dressed)

• Class Instruction from 8:35 - 2:40 1st period

• 8:35 - 9:10 Science/Google classroom for B2nd period

• 9:20 - 9:55 Family PE-Workout3rd period

• 10:05 - 10:40 Math 4th period

• 10:50 - 11:25 Latin/ writing for B5th period

• 11:35 - 12:10 English/Language Arts for B (online research and writing for any reports)

• Lunch 12:10 - 12:40 Make healthy choices (almond butter and jelly toast, boiled egg, cheese stick and fruit, ham or turkey sandwich)

• 6th period 12:45 - 1:20 history/ clarinet practice for B7th period

• 1:30 - 2:05 choir/piano practice music band (I-ready for B or language arts) 

• Advisory 2:10 - 2:40 Mom will choose an enrichment activity *Duo Lingo or Read advisory/Science for Bair and Bria if available (outdoor garden work can be switched with music practice time if no work available)

• 2:40 - 3:00 Please clean up all of your study material and put things back where they belong

• 3:00 - 5:00 Open time  *Open periods can be used to study DuoLingo-Spanish, Hunters Safety, Read or write in that order* Grab your snack bowl for the day / No wrappers allowed in the rooms, all food must be in the bowl

• You may watch a show for 1 hour unless you have asked to watch a movie

• Chores will still need to be completed

• (Thursdays Pick up dog poop, Tuesday’s and Wednesdays Take in/out garbage cans, food and water for the dogs by 5pm)

• 5:30 - 6:30 Practice Basketball and/or Soccer

• 6:30 dinner (Bair clear table and Trash, Bria load dishes and wipe down counters)

• 7:00 - 9:00 Showers, ready for tomorrow, friends, rooms clean, bedtime at 9 or read until 9:30