Third Monday of No In Person School
Mar. 30th, 2020 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutWe seem to have settled in nicely. This is the transition week from maintaining social/emotional connection to school and enrichment to Real School Just Happens To Be At Home. We do not know precisely what that difference will be on their end.
From a practical perspective, A. and I talked about how she needed to start reading her email from school. She gets her assignments through google classroom, and they are cc'd to email, so that is duplicative. She did not know how to delete email, so I showed her how and we did some batch deletes to clean up her inbox so it would be manageable. She got through her assignments for the day and is now doing the Prodigy game play with the teacher for an hour.
R. has left for Costco. T. has gone for a walk after having breakfast. I have a meal plan for the day and thawed ground lamb (we are going to use part for some small shepherds pies, and the rest is going into hashwe, which will be a new dish for us to try cooking). I also need to cook another batch of bacon (thawing, and increased the order in the next meat share), and make another batch of blondies.
This afternoon, after lunch and some time to relax, I figure I will read another chapter of Snow Treasure to her, to keep her progressing through her school book club selection. A whole lot of the kids are not doing much of anything with that, but I figure that just makes it easier for her to keep up.
There are three emails that I am not sure what to deal with. The art, music and PE teachers have sent email to me (which I read and punted on, because I figured that I would talk A. for walks at a rate of at least once a week, and the piano teacher is coming by still, so that presumably counts for music. The art, well, I dunno). One of them managed to join a classroom chat (2 classroom chats, actually) last week, but did not join A.'s. Either that teacher or another one is still figuring out how to email the kids (as opposed to the parents). So I do not feel too bad about not doing anything there. I expect this week, there will be some kind of assignment from them. Last week, A.'s main teacher did ask for a share of a piece of art that the kids had done, but since zero timeframe was specified, we just pulled a project that she had done off the wall and took a picture of that. If they want more, they should be clearer in their requests.
On the whole, things are ticking along nicely.
From a practical perspective, A. and I talked about how she needed to start reading her email from school. She gets her assignments through google classroom, and they are cc'd to email, so that is duplicative. She did not know how to delete email, so I showed her how and we did some batch deletes to clean up her inbox so it would be manageable. She got through her assignments for the day and is now doing the Prodigy game play with the teacher for an hour.
R. has left for Costco. T. has gone for a walk after having breakfast. I have a meal plan for the day and thawed ground lamb (we are going to use part for some small shepherds pies, and the rest is going into hashwe, which will be a new dish for us to try cooking). I also need to cook another batch of bacon (thawing, and increased the order in the next meat share), and make another batch of blondies.
This afternoon, after lunch and some time to relax, I figure I will read another chapter of Snow Treasure to her, to keep her progressing through her school book club selection. A whole lot of the kids are not doing much of anything with that, but I figure that just makes it easier for her to keep up.
There are three emails that I am not sure what to deal with. The art, music and PE teachers have sent email to me (which I read and punted on, because I figured that I would talk A. for walks at a rate of at least once a week, and the piano teacher is coming by still, so that presumably counts for music. The art, well, I dunno). One of them managed to join a classroom chat (2 classroom chats, actually) last week, but did not join A.'s. Either that teacher or another one is still figuring out how to email the kids (as opposed to the parents). So I do not feel too bad about not doing anything there. I expect this week, there will be some kind of assignment from them. Last week, A.'s main teacher did ask for a share of a piece of art that the kids had done, but since zero timeframe was specified, we just pulled a project that she had done off the wall and took a picture of that. If they want more, they should be clearer in their requests.
On the whole, things are ticking along nicely.