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Homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be an exercise in agility. As a working mom (with a working spouse), the initial odds of homeschooling my 2nd-grade daughter and preschooler son did not look good. While my daughter’s school provided organized weekly lesson plans and Zoom experiences, I felt a gap in resources for my son’s learning at the onset of the pandemic. While I served as a teaching assistant in graduate school, I’m not an educator by trade. What I’ve quickly come to learn in my new role as headmaster at Mendel Montessori is that being an at-home educator requires a variety of skills. Over the last few months, I’ve found that merging creativity and critical thinking into activities is a solid formula for keeping my five-year-old engaged.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, each day presented new challenges of juggling kids in between work calls, project deadlines and finding time to make meals. Almost overnight, I felt inundated with online resources, craft ideas and storytime with celebrities. While all these are effective tools, I found a few tactics along the way that have helped me on my journey to being an instant homeschool teacher.

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