With this crazy COVID year, I honestly seriously considered home schooling my kids. Particularly if they planned to have to kids learn via online learning at home because that did not go well for our family at the tail end of last school year. However, a few weeks before school started the district announced that kids could go to school every day at school getting out just one hour earlier than typical each day. They have to wear masks (except at lunch and recess), but the kids said they had no problem doing that if it meant the go to do school at school. And so far it has gone really well without ever being sent back home for high COVID numbers. And the kids are highly adaptable. They don't seem to mind wearing masks at all. Sometimes I catch them wearing them when they don't even need to. Olivia is in 4th grade in Mrs. Rockwood's class and loving it.
The hardest thing is just keeping her challenged say Mrs. Rockwood. She is going to talk with the ALL teacher to see if Olivia can do Math with their class. The boys are in 2nd grade with Mrs. Denning and seem to be doing great as well.
Camden is thrilled that his BFF Caleb is with him in class again. Here are all the kids on the first day of school with and without their masks, and the whole mob of kids that all get on at their bus stop.
I spent their first day of school canning all these tomatoes into salsa.
The kids came home just glowing with excitement. It was definitely the right decision to send them to school. The joy of being able to go to school with their friends just radiates off their faces. I could tell that they were definitely missing this aspect of their life and it had been restored once back into a regular schedule of school.
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