At this point in the year, our school had kids come back two days/week, to be able to keep kids 6 ft apart. The younger kids started back 4-days/week a little sooner than we did, as our rooms couldn't keep 30ish kids 6 ft apart. So in January, Melissa taught the first half of the alphabet students on M/T, all kids learned from home on Wed, while Melissa and I worked together in the classroom, and I taught the second half of the alphabet students on Th/Fri. It was quite different teaching in person two days and online three days--we had three days of online work that half of the students did on their days at home--and I remember on our two days in school we worked on spiral math and...what else? I think I've blocked it out. Oh! We brought back Love That Dog as a literacy/poetry unit! We gave ourselves permission to do engaging learning activities while we had students in front of us. In masks. Six feet apart. Lunch in the classroom. Rotated recess areas. But we were doing it! I got quite attached to these ELEVEN 5th graders...
I always took pictures of the online work and loaded it up at home if I couldn't finish on our Work Wednesdays. I hope to never see Edgenuity again!!!
OH! When I opened the door to the game cupboard to find the dice that I could write on, games erupted from the cupboard. And I remembered that the last time this game cupboard was opened was on March 13, 2020, when the kids had earned a game afternoon. That was our last day of school in person before the Covid wave hit and changed our world...so these terribly-put-away games had been waiting almost a year to erupt on the next door opener...
