COVID-19 Quarantine Day 17 - Thursday and Friday Recap

Ugh, guys I just spent 35 minutes writing a blog, and then the app crashed and it all got lost.  😔  I'll try to recreate it, but might publish a couple small ones instead to keep it from crashing again.  Might not be as good as the original, but I'll be the only one who knows, I guess...  🤷🏼‍♀️

Since my school has, somewhat, figured out what school is going to look like for the rest of the year, I've gotten busier.  I haven't blogged as much, as a result.  So now that I've got some time and drive, I'll try to recap what's been going on the past few days.  😊

On Thursday I went to the school to pack up Mrs. Baker's room and her students' belongings.  Beth was Avery's Kindergarten teacher and I've been working in her room this year with a few students for reading pull-out groups and for her whole class reading time.  Beth and her family went to Costa Rica for Spring Break.  So, when they got home, they had to go into mandatory quarantine.  That meant she couldn't pack up her students' belongings like the other teachers did.  I helped her sort their supplies at the beginning of the year and know her classroom well, so I was the natural choice of person to pack up her room since she couldn't.  I was at school from 8:45 to 1 working on her room and other jobs around the school, preparing for Monday when families will come and get their things.  After I packed her room up, I helped the other paras and aides grab bags from every classroom in the school and take them to the gym.  There, they were alphabetized.  Hopefully Monday goes smoothly.

On Friday I went back to the school to work on the chromebooks.  Our school did a technology survey and asked families who needed a chromebook for home so that their kids could do their schoolwork.  Any family that needs one (or more) is getting them.  We have about 400 kids in out school and a little over 100 chromebooks are going home with families.  We are fortunate to have so many that families are allowed to do this.  Not all school districts are so fortunate.  So Friday was spent alphabetizing them, putting stickers on student bags so we knew who needed chromebooks, and sanitizing each and every chromebook in the school.  Chromebooks are a wonderful resource, but they go through a lot of hands and I can only imagine how gross they are.  Needless to say, despite the coronavirus, they were probably all due for a good cleaning.  Now everything is ready and hopefully that helps things go well tomorrow.