Continuous Learning - It Begins

Here’s a little re-cap for you….

We were told on Thursday, March 12 that school was cancelled for Friday, March 13.

Spring Break was March 16 - 20.

The week of March 23 - 27 school was cancelled  

and we were told the kids would not return for the remainder of the year.

I called this time our “extended Spring Break”.

Well, today, we received information from the school district on "Continuous Learning”

and what that would look like for each grade from now until May 22.

We did not get the email until mid-day so we did not jump right in, 

first thing this morning - but we did see what the plan was and I introduced it to the boys tonight.

In a nutshell, they have taken the subjects each kid is learning and created one lesson a week. 

Each lesson follows includes: 

Explore: a video where a teacher from the district talks to them about the lesson for the week.

Explain: each kids has to explain what they learned fro the video by writing, drawing or telling.

Apply: looks different for each subject.

Create: looks different for each subject.

Jaxen’s Weekly Lessons include: 

Reading

Math

Science

Social Studies

Social-Emotional

They have also included ideas to include their “Specials" (Music, PE, Art, Library).

Jaxen’s teacher will do a Zoom video-conference each week with the class

(for those who can) and she has also provided extra resources. 

Jaxen will still have a spelling list and his teacher has even asked (for those who can)

to send in the kid’s spelling test each week so she can see them. 

Zane’s Weekly Lessons look a little different. 

Thankfully (for Zane) his teacher is the one doing all the videos for preschool!

Zane got to watch a video tonight, of his teacher reading a book.

Then he drew a picture.

We will basically work on letters, numbers, colors, and speech with him 

using resources they have given us. 

They also encourage the same “specials” that Jaxen has.

Tonight, I had Jaxen work on Math and Reading.

After he finished his math lesson, he clicked on “preschool” and worked with Zane on counting!

We will see how this goes!

And if you haven’t seen all the funny meme’s here lately about homeschooling, 

you should look them up. They are hilarious!

They make me smile each day.

I will leave you with this quote today - well, because...TRUTH!