Struggling to find ways to keep your kids involved in their schooling at home? It can be really hard to keep kids engaged, especially with the heat coming to our homes and how repetitive lessons can be. If you have a pool, you can actually let them cool off and have fun while still learning! Here are some ways to make homeschooling fun by using your pool.
Make Homeschooling Fun by Using Your Pool
Take Photos
Waterproof cameras are an amazing asset when it comes to pool time. You can use them to teach your children about photography skills, which is a great type of art form for expanding on creativity and expression. They also learn hand-eye coordination by using a camera.
Reading Time
A pool break can be a good opportunity for reading aloud to your children, which can help with reading material over the summer or to encourage and improve listening skills. You can read to them from the sidelines and have them do comprehension exercises after, or take breaks from swimming to have them read along.
Use Bath Toys
There are plenty of bath toys that are educational, and they can be used in pools too. You can use letters as a game to encourage your child’s spelling or sentence skills, as well as use most toys as a way to have your kids swim more (or learn to swim). It can be an excellent way to practice practical skills while being active too.
Waterproof Tools
Honestly, you can make a lot of educational tools waterproofed to use in and around the pool. Waterproof cards can be a way to play games that encourage math skills, or be a way to make studying fun by waterproofing flashcards. You can purchase or make many waterproofed activities or tools for your pool break lessons.
Buoyancy Learning
Density and buoyancy are important aspects of science education, and they’re incredibly fun for kids. Have your kids experiment with items they can find to see what floats or sinks and use it as a learning opportunity. It can be made more complex if you have them try to create boats that can hold items from household objects.
Just Play
Taking time away from rigorous learning to have a break and have fun can be so beneficial for your child’s mental and physical well being. Not only that, playing and spending time in the pool gives them needed physical activity. Even if you’re not using any of the educational ideas, they could be getting more from it than you know.
Realistically, these are just some basic ideas that you can expand on or think of new ones to add to the list. Hopefully it at least gives you somewhere to begin with adding more fun and interactive ideas to your homeschooling routine. It’s a great idea for the warmer weather coming along, and helps a lot for children that have trouble focusing and staying engaged.
The above content has been written by Jax, my content writing partner.
{oldest kiddo, my 2020 HS graduate}
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