It depends. Might be able to keep all 3, since born here, Croatian and Bosnian parent, and American parent. We shall see...
Seems it will have to be us, German, and Bosnian (non Eu)...
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It depends. Might be able to keep all 3, since born here, Croatian and Bosnian parent, and American parent. We shall see...
Seems it will have to be us, German, and Bosnian (non Eu)...
furley
Super Sports Nerd
any time my kids sniffle i'm pretty sure it's polio or something. maybe ebola.
furley
Super Sports Nerd
we just got a letter from the SD with our youngest daughter's teacher assignment. there's one listed on the official letter & another name printed on an insert with no other info.
we think that means the in-person teacher's name is listed on the official letter & the remote learning teacher's name is on the insert. no idea for sure though as they did not explain any of that in the letter.
and while i mistakenly thought school started after Labor Day, it actually starts on Tuesday the 1st.
we're supposed to get ANOTHER letter outlining how remote learning will work, but i'm not holding my breath.
we think that means the in-person teacher's name is listed on the official letter & the remote learning teacher's name is on the insert. no idea for sure though as they did not explain any of that in the letter.
and while i mistakenly thought school started after Labor Day, it actually starts on Tuesday the 1st.
we're supposed to get ANOTHER letter outlining how remote learning will work, but i'm not holding my breath.
Similar start for us this morning as it was our kids first day of "school". I'd read earlier this morning about the Zoom issue but somewhat assumed it had been mitigated. Calls are supposed to start at 9am for both kids. Get an email from the district IT office at 8:30am saying that Zoom is down so you will be getting individual Google Meet links from your teachers. We wait. No emails or communication as of 9am. I decide at 9:05am to go on the original Zoom links each teacher had sent out. Sign in to each and the teacher and most of the class is logged in and going. Great communication to start the year!First day of official duty for the wife (kids log in Thursday).
7:55 - goes upstairs to the office to start work
8:00 - receive a text - "Zoom is broken; our district has called for help"
Off to a great start over here.
furley
Super Sports Nerd
well, now just the 7th grade is reporting on 9/2 and then off 9/3 & back 9/4.. for picture day. no idea how that works with remote students.
I'd imagine they don't know how it works either.
furley
Super Sports Nerd
either way i'm sending in a picture of myself. see if it makes the yearbook.
furley
Super Sports Nerd
we've got out first positive test at my kid's school & the school year has't even started yet
reportedly "it's not someone who would have regular contact with the students". not sure what that means. not expecting them to name names, but is this person a janitor? after hours cleaning staff? a guidance counselor who drops in weekly?
reportedly "it's not someone who would have regular contact with the students". not sure what that means. not expecting them to name names, but is this person a janitor? after hours cleaning staff? a guidance counselor who drops in weekly?
Most likely one of those especially if school hasn't even started yet. Be thankful the school even let anyone know.
furley
Super Sports Nerd
eh, the school didn't alert us. we read about it in the news.
Done with the first week of distance learning "school". Outside of the communication issue on Monday morning with the Zoom "outage" the week was fairly smooth from a technology stand point. My daughter's fourth grade class went rather well. Zoom call from 9am-12:15pm everyday and even managed to have breakout rooms for small group projects. She had to take video of some engineering assignments and was able to do that on her own. Pretty independent.
1st grade experience was not nearly as positive. After being told by the teacher last weekend that the kids would be on a continuous Zoom call from 9am-12pm with breaks scattered in there, it has yet to happen. Zoom starts at 9am but ended by 10am through yesterday. Today our son comes out at 10am and says they have a recess and will be going back at 10:30am. Sure enough, the teacher has a countdown on the call and it is still going. He jumps back on at 10:30am only to come out three minutes later. We ask and he says they came back and sang happy birthday to one of the kids and that they were now done for the day. WTF? An hour a day of Zoom with roughly 30 minutes of work outside of that is a joke. Really, really hoping this is just a first week thing and that it will ramp up next week and the following.
What are other experiences like for those of you with K-2nd grade kids?
1st grade experience was not nearly as positive. After being told by the teacher last weekend that the kids would be on a continuous Zoom call from 9am-12pm with breaks scattered in there, it has yet to happen. Zoom starts at 9am but ended by 10am through yesterday. Today our son comes out at 10am and says they have a recess and will be going back at 10:30am. Sure enough, the teacher has a countdown on the call and it is still going. He jumps back on at 10:30am only to come out three minutes later. We ask and he says they came back and sang happy birthday to one of the kids and that they were now done for the day. WTF? An hour a day of Zoom with roughly 30 minutes of work outside of that is a joke. Really, really hoping this is just a first week thing and that it will ramp up next week and the following.
What are other experiences like for those of you with K-2nd grade kids?
FATC1TY
the fat, shitty poster
First few days was a little slow, more getting the teacher and kids used to working in google classrooms and the technology. Learning names and faces and going over the different visual things she included for the kids to show on the cameras for answers and help. This minimizes the kids from all yapping and talking too much. Works great.
they’ve gotten into some good work though, not straight thru, but 8-930 and then a break to work on assignments. Then back again, then recess and lunch, and I think they finish around 1-2? They’ve had some assessments to do, and some class reading type of stuff so they are really getting engaged. End of the day the kids get to share something, show the class, or just plain say hi to a classmate. Been very very impressed with the teacher. She’s called after some classes to check on the boys even.
This is for 1st grade too, by the way.
our county is about to try a slow soft return. Smaller kids go back first if you want, then they bring in more grades. Online dashboard showing mid count, class size. Any out breaks in schools, staff, etc.
masks are required in our county( shocker, as not aware of many that are here ), and the larger schools and high schools, they will have staggered attendance days, keeping the same groups flowing together, cleaning inbetween the groups, with hopes it keeps any issues lower.
we are gonna wait a month and see how it goes, before letting the boys venture in. Class won’t be more than 12-18 kids I think anyways. Our PreK kid is going to a private school and it’s got like 8 kids. Let’s hope for the best, but so far the online hasn’t been awful.
My kindergarten twins are off and on all day until 2:20. Schedule similar to what FATC1TY outlined above. Things have gotten better for us but only because my wife has conceded defeat and spends all day up there with them. It is extremely labor intensive for her. She is basically an all day personal TA for them, bouncing back and forth between their rooms (we did finally request to get them moved to the same class, which has helped, but they still have to be separate because there are small group breakouts throughout the day). All I hear all day long from my office downstairs is “MOMMY! MOMMY!” followed by my wife’s frantic footsteps heading down the hallway. She’s exhausted.
Thankfully our second grade daughter is mostly independent. She is able to do both Zoom and her app modules pretty much on her own. Every once in a while she yells for help, but it’s getting less and less as the days go on.
FATC1TY
the fat, shitty poster
Glad to hear you got the twins in the same class. It helps us a TON to have ours in the same class, atleast from a home perspective.
And then another 3-6 months after the baby is born before you'll even use that room.So I guess this baby thing is happening in a few months. Very early stages of the nursery.
