A Glimpse Into our New Normal

With COVID-19 our lives all changed. Landon and I both started working from home, something especially challenging for me, as it's not easy to work with special needs students via online chats and emails, but I made the best of it. Landon procured my sewing room and turned it into his new office. I think he kind of likes it, his biggest challenge being that Bryce wants his attention a lot since he is home so he has to balance that with getting done what he needs too. 

The kids both did their learning and school online. Not so much of a change for Chloe as a few of her classes were already done this way..the biggest thing for her was managing her time and missing the social aspect of school and of course missing out on her softball season. Bryce easily adapted and would get up early every morning and quickly get his lessons done-going back to regular school next year will definitely need some adaption time. 

A lot of lessons took place on the sidewalk-art/spelling practice. 

We would take pictures of all Bryce's assignments and upload them to be grade or recorded. He also had weekly Zoom Meetings with his class, which could be very interesting.

Science became a little more hands on as we had to make a lot of projects to go along with the lessons.

Art Projects

(Bryce had to recreate a famous work of art and include himself in it-Chloe helped him with this one)

(He also had to make a color wheel from objects around the house)

History Lessons

Daniel Boone guided drawing

There was a lot more free time in our schedules especially in the evenings so Landon and Bryce took to building puzzles. 

Parade's became the new reality as a way for teachers and students to see each other. We went on a parade to each of our students houses-it was fun to see them all in person again. 

Since I was home a lot more than normal I did a lot of organizing. I bought so many plastic bins and totes-Ha!

Thoughtful/Funny Gifts

The school board and PTO dropped by with several surprises during the quarantine. And yes people started giving toilet paper as gifts, partly to be funny, by partly it was a big thing for awhile and hard to get without waiting in line or getting to the stores right when they opened.

Some parts of this all have been nice in ways, but we are all ready to get back to normal life before this pandemic hit.