Virtual Learning

One of my fifty+ messages with my own students trying to get them into the correct assignments. Hours and hours time spent trying to get them up and running and to attend regularly. 

Virtual learning is a challenge in so many ways, for my students and my own kids. It's not as engaging and getting kids to stay in one place and pay attention is so difficult. I spend a lot of time returning Lanie to circle time, and reminding Vivian to pay attention to her teacher, and telling Sam to not end early.

Jack likes circle time more than all the other kids.

Circle time without Lanie or Jack.

Me setting up multiple learning sites across several devices back in March. This was for the children's school. This is why there will be a huge gap in learning when we return to school, people who don't have devices, whose parent's can't log them in, or can't run them on certain devices or platforms. 

Jack at circle time by himself.

Lanie returned to circle time (again), this time with a snack/bribe.

Vivian and Jack at first grade lesson time. 

My favorite moment of last week was Vivian's teacher getting dropped from her own classroom meeting and the explosion of "where is the teacher?" from the first graders. Someone immediately started playing the piano and the kids were yelling, "who is playing the piano? I can't see!" So that when she logged back in it was chaos.