Emergency Homeschooling
Have you found yourself in urgent need to educate your child? Emergency homeschooling may be the solution to bridge the gap.
We try to prepare for some of life toughest situations.
We have insurance for things that will hopefully never happen. We can make a plan for what to do but when it comes down to it, we don’t plan tragedies so we can only prepare ourselves so much.
House fires can come unexpected. Trauma comes as a shock. Crisis doesn’t come with warning.
There are things in life we can’t control. When these things happen, how can we possibly consider schoolwork? There are times when it is still an expected requirement and times when emergency homeschooling can bring a level of normalcy to your child’s experience.
Are you facing the unexpected?
If you are facing a horrific thing, if you are finding yourself somewhere you never planned to be, you first need to remember that there is comfort in the shelter of the Lord.
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Psalm 91: 1-2
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
I am so truly sorry for whatever it is that you are going through.
But God cares even more than I do.
What happens when you are faced with an emergency? You can use a number of resources. I will note only a few here.
AmblesideOnline Emergency HELP
Ambleside Online Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan is a free program for homeschoolers. All you need is access to a computer (with internet), a printer, pencil and paper.
Easy Peasy All-In-One Home School
On EP Assignments lesson plan website you can create an account for your family. Under Parents (Settings) you can set each student up and add as many as necessary. You can create a custom color for each individual for fun and ease of use. I would suggest you use the “Placement Guides” and “Set Level and Theme” options first. Within a matter of five minutes you can have your child ready to start schoolwork.
There is a convenient materials list at the top that can prepare you and your child for what’s to come. The “preview Johnny(child’s name)’s work” If you decide that a course is too advanced for where you want your child you can click previous course and just same, if you feel the course is too elementary for them, you can click next course for the level after.
Schoolhouse Teachers
The Old Schoolhouse has great suggestions at SchoolhouseTeachers.com for a month at home for elementary and above.
There are two main options they suggest:
Option One gives an activity each day for four, 5-day weeks. Each activity is listed with a link with further easy-to-follow instructions.
Option Two offers 30 days of complete curriculum with over 400 courses for your whole family from PreK-12th including hundreds of streaming videos, ebooks and dozens of resources for just $1 total.
A Month at Home – Elementary
A Month at Home – Middle School & High School
Crisis Preparation
Is life pretty okay these days? Great news! You can still take a look at this option should you ever need it. You may want to bookmark this resource for yourself or a friend one day.
Like insurance for schooling; hopefully you never need it but it would be better to have it and never need it than to need it but not have a plan.
There are Options
There are options to keep your child learning during hard times.
Difficult seasons, many times, will not send us a notice in the mail or an alert text. You were not hoping to ever be facing divorce. Natural disaster, accidents and loss are uncontrollable. You may be finding that domestic violence has zero prejudice. Trauma and major transition can throw you for a loop but they don’t have to ruin everything.
There are many emergency homeschool options for children to have less interruptions and have some bit of normal.
Take Heart
Remember to breathe and give yourself (and your children) grace.
Back up and get some perspective. You may need to think outside the box a little and that’s okay – even beneficial.
God is with you and He cares for all of your details.
“Always, my only hope and my only strength and my only way to cope has been an utter abandonment to God, knowing that if He doesn’t work, if He doesn’t move in the midst of us through His Holy Spirit, if He doesn’t take my paltry fish and loaves and make it into more than it really is, I do not have a hope of making it. I relinquish my desire to control and yield this moment, this day and hope that He will show up.”
Sally Clarkson
Check out 3 Keys in Crisis – for Moms; a few simple guidelines to help you in some of the hardest times you will face.
