A 40-year-old mom decided to transform her unused caravan into a home-school classroom for her three children amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Lorisa Talbot from Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire took the help of her three children in creating the temporary classroom and she put books, games and puzzles to keep her kids engaged.
She shared her creative idea on Facebook writing, “So with school closed for the foreseeable future, we’ve decided to turn our touring caravan into a temporary classroom.”
“The kids seem pretty excited to start on Monday as apparently they don’t have to work as hard as at school.” When she learnt about the total lockdown, she decided to take her kids children out of school.
She continued: “I had been following the news in Spain and Italy very closely and decided to take my children out of school a week before they officially closed as I was terrified of what was happening over there.”
“I assumed the same would happen here and thought it might be for quite a long time. Our caravan was sitting on the drive unused and it seemed like the perfect space to use as a temporary classroom for the children.”
Now, it is easy for her to keep her kids’ school stuff at one place as she has organised them in boxes and folders. She added: “It was easy enough to set up and all three children enjoyed helping out to make it like a classroom.”
“They chose what games and books they wanted to bring into their new classroom and we organised them into tidy boxes and folders.”
Her children Freya, 9, Ryan, 6, and Harry, 5, are delighted to have this new classroom which helps them reading and writing at home. She said: “The children love their new ‘school’ and have really been enjoying the time we spend inside. Their real school has been providing us with a full week’s worth of work each Sunday, to which I’m very grateful, but in all honesty, we’ve not managed to get through all of it.”
“We do a bit of reading and writing, board games and lots of nature projects like Nick Bakers Worm World.”
Lorisa says she gives a break to her children so they help her in preparing meals and they do more fun activities in the afternoon. “We’ve extended lunchtimes so the children can help prepare their meals and clear away. Afternoons are more fun activities like forest school, arts and crafts, life skills and board games,” she said.
“I’m not very strict with the daily routine though and some days a bit of reading and writing is enough. What we desperately need is to have the weather on our side over the next few weeks and months so we can get in the garden for our daily exercise.”
Lorisa revealed she is not only home-schooling her kids during the lockdown as her youngest child Harry is also learning to ride a bike. The children are excited to go back to their real school once pandemic ends.
“As much as the children are enjoying using the caravan they can’t wait to go back to real school and see all their friends and teachers,” she said.
She said that she told her children about coronavirus and they understood how important it is to stay at home during this tough time. “I’ve tried to be honest with them as much as I can about coronavirus without scaring them to much. They know if we stay home and stick to the rules things will hopefully get back to normal,” she explained.
“They’ve also asked a lot of questions about the NHS and I’ve explained to them how lucky we are in this country to have our NHS. They now take great pride in clapping for them every Thursday evening – we even let them stay up late to do so!”
Lorisa’s family is planning to have a trip this summer to Lake Garda via Switzerland in their caravan but she knows it might get delayed due to the pandemic. “The last time we used the caravan was summer 2018 when we did a four-week road trip around France,” Lorisa said. She also revealed how her idea of converting caravan into a classroom received a great response from people.
She said: “It’s lovely that the post has had so much attention and the responses, on the whole, have been really positive.”
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