Schools essentially closed to all but necessary students on Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon my school announced that staff could (and should) work from home unless rostered on for supervision. So today was my first day trying to sort out what this all-four-of-us-at-home-all-day thing looks like.
My husband has a desk downstairs in the main living/kitchen area. There’s a little one he built out of pallet wood a while back upstairs in the landing, but it’s been covered in boxes of crap to sort out for… well, too long. So the first half of today was sorting all that out so I can actually have desk space. Phew.
The kids are on school lite this week while I get things settled, but I’m hoping to have things sorted enough that we can all knuckle down and have a proper schedule on Monday.
I did have a timetable drawn up, but like all good plans it didn’t survive first contact with the enemy 😀
It *was* super fun being home with the kids in an educational sense, though. I spent 15 – 20 mins with my son, who has to compose a small piece of music as part of his violin lessons, expanding his vocabulary of emotion words and then playing random sound track clips and getting him to identify which emotion he thought the music sounded like. Then we had a brief convo about which features of the music matched which emotions, and he came up with a short little piece of music he’s happy with. I’ll ask him tomorrow if he would mind if I recorded it and posted here 😀
Sprinkle, i.e. the girl child who started Kindy in February, was SUPER excited to watch the little ‘intro to home learning’ video her teacher had made for the class – she watched it like 5 times in a row.
After doing a virtual tour of Yellowstone National Park this afternoon, she created this artwork:
The caption reads “A monkey visits a hot pool and geysers at Yellowstone National Park”. And I was strictly instruction to add the label about the portal, ha. Where the portal goes, I have no clue. Ask the monkey 😉
Work is taking a lot of my time right now as we scramble to get everyone fully converted to online, but – with full acknowledgement of the ungodly HORRORS of the current situation – I’m actually looking forward to working from home next term and being able to help with educating the kids, and hopefully have more time for writing.
The world is not a friendly place to be right now, but for sanity’s sake it’s important to hold onto the positives you can find.
Tell me about how you’re going. Are you isolated yet? How are you feeling?