Keeping healthy requires taking care of mind, body and soul. This means that as a homeschooling family you not only must educate the mind, you must also exercise the body and find a way to nourish your soul. The study aspect usually gets taken care of by the syllabus that you need to cover in the homeschool classroom. Here we find a way to focus on exercising the body in a fun manner.
The Activity Wheel
Going for a jog every day can become boring. So can only swimming in summers, or just playing basket ball. The idea of the activity wheel is to come up with half an hour of a form of exercise that everyone in the homeschool family gets to do together. The unpredictability of what will be done keeps it fun and exciting.
Here’s how it works. All the exercise activities are written down on the wheel. Each day a different member of the family gets to spin the wheel and whatever activity the pointer marks when the wheel stops spinning is the exercise of the day. Everyone spend the next half hour doing that exercise.
Learn a Sport Together
Badminton, basket ball, base ball, foot ball, skating, tennis, or cricket. It doesn’t matter what the sport or game is. The idea here is to find a physically challenging game that allows everyone to get plenty of exercise. Then play the game together as a family. If you don’t know how to play, sign up for a coach’s classes.You could even use the resources at a community center if you don’t want to spend too much setting up everything at home.
The activity will not just become a physical exercise that the homeschool family does together, but also a great way of forming fun memories. All the physical activity will also help keep the fitness levels of the family in check, not to mention allow the children to run off all that extra steam that they have. There is an additional benefit of everyone actually being hungry enough to eat after all that running around.
