Teacher-led homeschool!

We have survived a week of teacher-led home schooling!

Between the 2 of us, we prepped and organized the space we have to facilitate learning.  The monsters each have their stuff from school in a set area, the tech being used to communicate assignments and concepts is charged and set for the new day, and all apps needed were installed.

No adjustment is perfect.  Everyone was happy to connect with teachers and friends from class, not everyone liked the new rules about what gets turned on when and where they needed to set computers up at.  There has been some adjusting for parents reading instructions from teachers versus what the teacher might suggest in class.  It has been very positive, though, and I am incredibly grateful for the teaching staff at our schools for working so hard to get the rest of the school year done in this way.  Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.

As this is all becoming routine now we have fewer complaints about the self-imposed schedule.  Staying in PJs all day during the week is not an option here.  Gaming all day long is not an option either.  The first couple weeks was mostly anarchy, and anything went.  Now we have pulled ourselves back up and are making routines to help us through.  There are daily walks, they aren't complained about quite as much as at first.  When weather is nicer (which it really isn't right now...) we do some running.  Showers happen, cleaning happens.  Regular scheduled bedtimes don't really happen, but they don't get really late nights unless it's a weekend still. 

This enforced time of not being busy has been interesting.  We are a close-knit unit all the time, but it has been neat to see the way the interactions between siblings shifts and changes with the zero physical interaction with others.  There are days of "I just need my space away from everyone" and days of "I can't get enough of talking and being close to my sibling."  The fire and gasoline duo of Girlie and Sergeant has mostly tempered and they have been best friends these last few days.  They go up ahead when we go for our walks and make up rhymes about things and people.  Just because.  Smarty is loved by his sisters so much, and he is so good natured about it, he gets mauled and hug attacked and he plays back.  Monkey is her regular monkey-self and because she is younger, she is having the most rocky adjustment.  Nothing huge, just really tired of all this stuff that she just cant even. 

Overall though, it has been a good week.  Hubby is doing some work from home, some office hours.  I am working what little I can with job volume significantly reduced.  Yesterday Sergeant helped me start cinnamon buns.  Girlie helped make a salted caramel frosting for them.  OMG, they really are the best thing in the whole world!!  I'll see if I can get a pic before they're gone and post it.