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First Day of School!
Sep. 14th, 2020 12:56 pmWeird this year, because there was, literally, no before school supply acquisition / shopping. No clothes. No school supplies. Nothing. I mean, I bought A. a pixel book months ago, but that was it. We had a couple supply runs to pick up school provided stuff (I believe in openly complying when it is easy, because people think you are cooperative which is a helpful thing for me). Oh, I guess I bought a couple things: I got 2 Table-Mate IIs on amazon (one has arrived). This is a TV tray type device, adjustable angle on the surface and adjustable height and highly portable. I ordered one grey and one black because I did not know what colors people would want (I figured the beige was gonna be No Go in metal), but the grey is not showing up until Friday, so when the black turned out to be acceptable to both of them, I ordered a second black one due today. I set up the school device on it for A., and added the rolling, height adjustable stool to go with it. There is a backpack from a couple years ago next to all that, containing the school supplied ... supplies.
The teachers did a nice job emailing out links to google doc tables with schedule and zoom link info, at least for the first week. So, there’s that! I thought I would have to assemble that, but apparently, my district learned that from other people and supplied it. Online, people are complaining about the lack of paper agendas. Reading that resulted in a sprained eyeball. (These were people in the 100% remote program, to be clear.)
I walked with M. at 945. Despite carefully picking a time frame buried in zoom for everyone else, A. had a five minute movement break and went looking for me to play catch with. She found R. Seems appropriate. He later left to go deal with a flipped breaker at work.
Other scheduling I should have done sooner: arranging for the babysitter to come get T. right when his school is done at 2:47 to transport him to his swim lesson one town over at 3 pm. He will be ready in swim gear; here’s hoping they do not hit traffic. Also, _BOTH_ kids have a half day on Wednesday, so we can schedule stuff in the afternoon again! Piano lesson slotted in there first at noon.
T. had network issues (would not let me type in the password for him and he kept mixing it up), but that eventually got all squared away.
Everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood (except R., who slept poorly because I yelled at him yesterday for what happened in the family zoom and aftermath). Some day, I will have to figure out what kind of fall clothes they need, but it is still 70s around here so today is not yet that day.
The teachers did a nice job emailing out links to google doc tables with schedule and zoom link info, at least for the first week. So, there’s that! I thought I would have to assemble that, but apparently, my district learned that from other people and supplied it. Online, people are complaining about the lack of paper agendas. Reading that resulted in a sprained eyeball. (These were people in the 100% remote program, to be clear.)
I walked with M. at 945. Despite carefully picking a time frame buried in zoom for everyone else, A. had a five minute movement break and went looking for me to play catch with. She found R. Seems appropriate. He later left to go deal with a flipped breaker at work.
Other scheduling I should have done sooner: arranging for the babysitter to come get T. right when his school is done at 2:47 to transport him to his swim lesson one town over at 3 pm. He will be ready in swim gear; here’s hoping they do not hit traffic. Also, _BOTH_ kids have a half day on Wednesday, so we can schedule stuff in the afternoon again! Piano lesson slotted in there first at noon.
T. had network issues (would not let me type in the password for him and he kept mixing it up), but that eventually got all squared away.
Everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood (except R., who slept poorly because I yelled at him yesterday for what happened in the family zoom and aftermath). Some day, I will have to figure out what kind of fall clothes they need, but it is still 70s around here so today is not yet that day.