Some of my friends are concerned with the CDC guidance for
schools reopening and here I am, wondering how I can get my my daughter to , willingly, shred
papers I meant to burn into a bucket so we can turn them into paper logs for
the wood stove this fall.
Yesterday, she helped with planting a kitchen garden. I’m
afraid I was a little top down instead of engaging her in the planning of it. I
simply told her how I had planned it and why then gave her small tasks to
accomplish. She planted the seeds for 4 out of 13 plots. (She is a very
methodical child, I was much more haphazard in my planting to get it done.) I
had her fetch and carry seeds I had started and the watering can. In the end,
we have a garden planted with pumpkin, sunflowers, Brussels sprouts, cucumbers,
radishes, carrots, spinach, lettuce, wax beans, cherry tomatoes, acorn squash,
spaghetti squash, and yellow summer squash. Tin pans were strung up to scare
off birds and used kitty litter put down a mole hole. We’ll get marigolds
to go around the garden when we can.
If you haven’t seen it yet, the CDC has issued some guidance
for schools to reopen. (I’ll put the link at the bottom.) That’s not going to
happen this school year where I am so I’ve kind of taken it off my mental
radar. Honestly, I figure why borrow trouble? I mean, the schools are going to
look at it and come up with a plan. There will be time to decide whether we
think those plans are sufficient.
Friends who home school are planning to get their supplies
because they figure there will be a lot more people home schooling next year.
For my part, I don’t really see that as an option. I’ve taught. Writing lessons
plans and actually teaching my daughter cannot coincide with working a full-time
job. I would have to enroll her in some kind of online school, if it came to
that.
But I think that is jumping the gun. I believe that our
school district will come up with a reasonable plan, that is somewhere between the
ideal CDC guidance, and reality. If the school requires she wear a mask to
school, we’ll come up with something she can stand to wear. I mean, it may seem
like a horrible thing to ask, but the reality is that kids are highly
adaptable, and we’ve seen kids in other countries do so during outbreaks
before. Our kids can handle it. I think part of the key may be not making a big
deal out of it.
Also, if some kids start homeschooling, and some kids go to
online schools, that will make the social distancing in the regular school that
much easier.
Next week we go in for bench marking, and before we know it
school will be over until fall!
Now, how am I going to keep her off the computer most of the
day in the summer, while I work? Ugh. Time to start a list, starting with
shredding paper for wood stove paper logs.
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CDC guidance for re-opening of schools - includes: FAQs for
administrators, teachers and parents / Talking with
children about COVID-19 / Checklist for
teachers and parents / Tips for
parents while school is out. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/index.html
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