This document provides suggestions for setting up learning areas and activities at home while kids are unable to attend school. It recommends creating a question box for kids to post questions, and provides ideas for designing the box for different ages. Older kids could design an aesthetically pleasing box, while younger kids could decorate an existing box. The document also suggests designating different learning areas around the home, such as quiet, messy, outdoor, and desk spaces. It stresses the importance of considering children's ergonomics and allowing solo, collaborative, standing, and lying down work. Dedicated play areas are also recommended for free time.

1. INTRODUCTION
F U T U R E P R O O F K I D S
"Educating the brain without
educating the heart is no education
at all" Aristotle

2. GETTING USED TO BEING HOME
FUN ACTIVITIES FIRST
Create a "Question Box" for all family questions to be
posted
Designate learning areas to the home
1.
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3. "Design and decorate the
best Post Box you can"
QUESTION BOX DESIGN
CHALLENGE
FOR OLDER CHILDREN
have somewhere to post the questions
be able to open and close so we can get the questions out
be aesthetically pleasing (look good)
be small enough to fit the space we have
It must:

4. IDEAS FOR POST BOX
WITH YOUNGER
CHILDREN
KEEP IT SIMPLE
Use an existing box with a lid
Make one with them using old
cardboard boxes
Find a toy post box and use that
Use a tupperware container with a
lid
Recycle a game box
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5. DELEGATING
RESPONSIBILITY
If you don't want to set a challenge
for the post box, delegate the
responsibility to the eldest child to
complete for the family.
GIFT FROM ADULTS
Challenge not your thing? Crafts with
younger children not your idea of
fun?
Make or find a post box yourself and
gift it to them.

6. THINK
DIFFERENTLY
ABOUT
LEARNING
AREAS
QUIET AREAS
Under a table, on the couch, in their bedroom, blanket fort,
on the balcony
MESSY AREA
In the laundry, in the kitchen, outside near a tap
OUTSIDE SPACE
Cushions under a tree, at the outside table, on a mat on the
grass
D E S K S P A C E
Kitchen table, office desk, bedroom desk, breakfast bar
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7. LYING DOWN
Children's bodies are constantly
developing and sometimes lying down is
more productive for them than sitting.
STANDING UP
Just like adults, children's ergonomics
with devices is important. Standing at
the breakfast bar could be more
comfortable at times.
ALONE
Finding spaces to learn on your own is
important, think creatively about how to
find small nooks and crannys for learning
- under the bed or inside a blanket fort.
Learning can happen anywhere
WITH OTHERS
Collaborative time could be useful at
times, all working at the kitchen table
together or creating art together with
various age ranges can have advantages.

8. MOVEMENT & SPACE
FREE PLAY AREAS
There will be lots of time spent in your home that
is NOT structured learning time.
Having access to their normal free range play
areas is really important for children to keep a
sense of normality.
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