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Coronavirus Homeschooling: What We Are Doing
We are heading into Week 4 of school being canceled in Austin, TX. We are anticipating the need to shelter in place for the long haul (until there is a vaccine?). So I worked with the staff at our school to come up with a coronavirus homeschooling approach. Our school is intentionally one of the most diverse schools in the entire city of Austin—racially, culturally, and socioeconomically. Therefore, we wanted a plan that could serve all families.
We decided to go with primarily digital apps for a variety of reasons. First, synchronous learning can be really hard. For families with multiple children, you would need to make sure there’s … Read More
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Simple Bread Recipe: My Favorite!
I’m not one of those people who is going crazy on Pinterest trying to find activities for my children to do during the pandemic. For the most part, our lives follow a regular routine. Matt homeschools the boys for 2-3 hours each morning. They play before lunch. They work with me to make lunch, and then we picnic and swim in the pool. Then it’s 2-3 hours of choice screen time in the afternoon and then they play around again (mainly legos and make believe). They also listen to a lot of audio books, build forts, and eat snacks. However, Tate has been begging me to help him make gluten-free … Read More
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Are bearded dragons good pets? Let’s find out!
Henry has been asking for a lizard for quite a while now. We’ve been ignoring his request because we’ve been preparing for a Family Gap Year. However, things hit a low low last week. Henry was saying that he thinks I love Tate more than him, that I don’t like him, that he can’t handle the pressure of homeschooling, that I love my work more than him, and that he can’t survive another day without a pet. I had already been wondering, “Are bearded dragons good pets?” But then I had an idea about how I could find out in a no-strings-attached kind of way!
Many of the classrooms … Read More