If teaching your kids is feeling overwhelming, especially during these strange times, you’re not alone.

Know that learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom, on a computer or at a table. When our kids are at school, this is the place we think it all happens but since our children are at home, learning can happen in so many places. The best part about switching the locations is you can make it a multi sensory approach. Learning through moving, touching, smelling, and even tasting.

Here are some tried-and-true strategies to change up the learning environment at home.:

Kitchen: Have your children help you with measuring, count the number of ingredients, spell the letters on the sides of packages such as flour, butter, etc. Learn how to crack eggs. Learn the science behind why flour tastes bad by itself but tastes so good in cookies.

Outside: Count the number of times a child can jump up and down. Use words like I jumped 3 times and you jumped 5 how many is that. Learn how to use a skipping rope or ride a bicycle. Spell words on the side walk with water and a paint brush.

Meal times: talk about fractions with the plate of food or estimate the number of bites it will take to finish your pasta. All of these learning opportunities teach our children how applicable learning is to real life. These are great lessons that can’t be learned at school in the same way.

There are so many more ideas and I would love to hear some of yours. Comment below to add your ideas.