The creator of a public Facebook group, "Miss Megan's Camp Kindergarten," Megan Jessen films live "morning meetings" from her home in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Inspired by her two daughters, she spends an hour to have fun educational lessons for children.
Megan Jessen's goal is to help parents struggling with homeschooling
When she started the Facebook group a month ago, Jessen told "Good Morning America" that she is an advocate of routine and structure. She knew that they would do better with a morning routine because it helps her too.
Parents in the country are struggling to pick up where the teachers had left off when the pandemic happened that caused an early end to the school year.
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Online teaching started as a personal use
A former kindergarten teacher and current preschool assistant, Jessen is providing parents and children a sense of normalcy to help fill the gap during an unprecedented and challenging time. She told CBS affiliate WIFR that it just started with wanting to do online teaching for her and her friends, and it has snowballed out of control, which is good.
She added to GMA that it is a win-win situation because it is something that the kids are looking forward to every day.
Jessen covers basic kindergarten lessons
Jessen includes the alphabet, numbers, days of the week, and months of the year through her morning meetings. She would kick off the lessons by playing the guitar and singing, and she would end them by reading a book.
She also said that they would get up, get dressed, and then go to class. It would be the springboard for the rest of the day.
Mothers applauding Jessen's online teaching
Since Jessen's first video upload on March 16, Camp Kindergarten has garnered 93,000 followers and has become a popular destination for parents on Facebook. One mother wrote on Tuesday morning meeting thanking Mrs. Megan for her songs.
She also said that her three-year-old daughter dances and gets so excited when the teacher sings with her guitar. She also complimented Jessen for doing a great job.
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Another mother commented thanking Jessen because she said that after watching for the first time with her almost-four-year-old daughter Charlotte, Jessen's online teaching is just like her school.
Every weekday starting at 10 AM ET, parents can turn on the lessons on "Miss Megan's Camp Kindergarten Facebook page.
Jessen told WIFR that she is excited about her Facebook group's growing popularity, and she is happy because she can help people through the "weird time" that everybody is experiencing right now.
