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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not correct. Students will have their own manipulatives at their desk. Many of them already have some from the take home kits. This is true for the school where I work as well at the one my child attends. [/quote]

Yup. My kid has his own set of manipulatives. He will being them every day [/quote]The sets they sent home are pretty pathetic.  APS is expecting in person kids to sit at their desk for 6+ hours.  The least they can do is give them different objects to explore, especially since it creates zero additional risk if the items are just put aside for a few days after use. This may also free up additional budget for better manipulatives for the at home kids for the spring units. (We got new items sent home for each quarter.)  Let the in person kids use things the school already owns.

Our teacher wasn't even convinced that she'd be allowed to give in person kids library books, even though schools have been distributing those to DL kids for months.  The APS policy is that unclear. [/quote]
After K they don’t tend to use many manipulatives in a regular year[/quote]
In music, in person kids won't be allowed to sing.  It would be really nice if they could give out some sort of instrument.  The teacher will still be delivering the class virtually because they're not allowing specials teachers to meet with classes in person.

The same for PE.  It's virtual, seated PE.  Can they really not give them any sort of object to manipulate?

Kids should certainly also be allowed library books.  It's not okay to limit kids to Reading A-Z.[/quote]

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