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My little grandson does FaceTime with me at breakfast. This gives us a chance for me to encourage him with his new weaning routine and I have a little puppet puppy who he loves to see whenever we are online together. Learning and having fun at the same time!

Patience, routine, discipline, praise, treats all done and given with kindness and love. Also being able to give them their own space and choices to do what they would like to do.

My daughter does things like card making to get my grandson practising his handwriting, baking to cover sciences and she also gets my grandson to read to me over video call and then I read him a story.

Unfortunately my granddaughters live several hours away and although the little one gets excited when we have contact via an Alexa Echo the four year old runs in the opposite direction and almost always refuses to speak to us. Hopefully this will correct itself when we are able to meet again.

Find the balance between showing them how and letting them try for themselves

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We have included our granddaughters aged 7 and four, through WhatsApp video in a series of projects that have kept us busy too. From hatching chickens, making a tree den, to refurbishing a dolls house, they are so keen to be involved they WhatsApp us with questions. Luckily have been able to come and play here outside recently. We have always communicated like this as we live 60 miles away and feel these projects really enhance their learning and keep us involved.

We only communicate via Skype but it's still contact that we are so lucky to have. We don't get that long before their attention wanders but we've found that lots of variety and plenty of encouragement seems to work well

sharing stories- reading a book via Zoom to my 3 year old grandson has been great. Also setting him games/challenges -e.g. find me 5 things that start with sound 's', (play activities that encompass counting and phonics). Lots of praise and encouragement.

I make everything fun,they just want to continue when it’s like that and lots of praise of course,also regular breaks in between

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I have found that spending time out of doors with the Grandchildren has sparked an interest in Wildlife & Flora ! My young Granddaughter, age 7 has a good interest in all insects & actively looks for new examples to study -she is currently nurturing some Cabbage White Caterpillars found in Nannies Garden & we are having a Sunflower growing contest!!For someone who used to screech at spiders this is good progress- the next' David Bellamy' on the way??

Sticking to a routine is essential

Variety and keeping them interested..sending cards and little surprises for them

Making learning fun and relevant.

Stick to a routine as lessons have to be done but let them know there will be something nice to do afterwards

Having a good solid routine, and sticking to it I think is the most important thing. Children thrive with routine. No, our relationship hasn’t changed, I do miss them so much though.

By keeping in touch and keeping a routine

We have kept to a routine, but have developed other skills such as planting seeds in the garden and baking :D

Love and understanding, empathy patience and praise. Once you have these things a child will learn.

Making learning fun. It may not be the same things they would learn in school but my dgc have enjoyed lots of new experiences. We share over zoom and Skype, read together. We probably talk a lot more than normal because we all have the time

We did struggle for weeks with being closed in but I am lucky enough to live with my granddaughter so as she is only 2 we found keeping a structure in place was the best thing, even when the difficult days arrived with mummy working upstairs from home and Daddy not used to being home we tried to calm the waters buy breakfast then an hours play followed by a snack and some learning like singing rhymes then lunch with a bit of bite size then followed by colouring or flash cards then a little bit of chill time in front of the Disney Chanel until mummy finishes work then bath fun tea and bed but let me tell you it has been a difficult and winding road but hopefully normality is getting closer ?

nothing beats personal contact, but when needs must, you adapt - as with everything. FaceTime is a novelty and surprise calls are best. A reality check is needed right now, but hopefully we'll be back to 'normal' whatever that is, very soon now

My grandchildren have had teir homeschooling mostly with their parents but enjoy having a bedtime story read to them by myself or Grandad and also playing games like bingo and scavenger hunt on facetime!

Having the children help with other things like cooking, gardening and painting inbetween and making these things fun. It has been quite hard on us all as my grandchildren are so loving with their cuddles and hugs. Cant wait for us all to be safe and continue where we left off.

I'm still shielding, Contact with grandchildren only via video for them to show what they were doing. Their mum would appreciate this Learning Resourses pack. And me too!

Making the learning fun and not getting too stressed about getting them to do things is the key