The biggest excitement last week (a new video game) was coupled with the biggest dread (online school). Sunday we let the kids download the new Animal Crossing game on the original switch for Charlotte and the boys switch lites. They have had a lot of fun working on their islands and visiting each other, and they also get online and play with our friends down the street. During the week the routine has been get dressed/eat/electronics/TV until 9, working on school for a couple hours, lunch, then they are able to have electronics for about three hours in the afternoons (some of that time in rooms so it is quiet for me). Zach's friend has a phone, and I've sometimes let him borrow mine to text back and forth with him or get on speaker phone so they can communicate while they play the video game. Sometimes all 6 kids at once!
They have adjusted to their online assignments pretty well. Some of it is reading or watching lessons online, some of it is working in books they brought home, and sometimes it is writing or drawing something and submitting a photo of it. Not too bad, considering. Zach is very familiar with accessing everything from his school-issued iPad, so he's very self-sufficient and pretty quick at completing things. Charlotte is set up at the family computer and is pretty good but needs me to keep her on task. Gabe was working on my computer most of the week, but he is now happier and more focused on an old laptop we resurrected and set up in his room. Frank was at work through Thursday but has been working at home since then.
The weather warmed up, and we got outside: for Frank to cut the grass, for the kids to listen to story time, for Charlotte to dance and blow bubbles, and for me to photograph the tree. On Saturday the kids rode bikes. Zach had some friends show up, and at least they were slightly more distanced than they would have been off of bikes. It was the best we could do, and our social middle schooler was overjoyed with having the interaction, short as it was.
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| almost completely deserted Target |
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| They have slept all together on the guest bed multiple times. |
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| Girl misses dance class. They are debating moving the recital to next January--I'll keep you all updated. |
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