40 Ideas for Independent Work (Not Busywork!)

Homeschooling comes with its own set of blessings and challenges. One of the challenges is figuring out what one child can do while you’re busy helping a different child. A home school is very much like a one-room schoolhouse. You’re managing several children across several grade levels—with only one teacher. It’s a fact of life that you won’t be able to be with each child all the time. Sometimes you will need to assign work to be done independently. But remember that any independent work that you assign to a child should have a purpose. And that purpose is not…

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