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Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

The slow weeks are the absolute worst. My kid is bored with the normal speed, especially since half the time is reminding kids to get back in their seat and to mute. The slow weeks are excruciating. Ugh.

Totally agree. My DD hates all the chit chat and supposedly fun activities. Just get on with it please. My DD's teacher spends over an hour every Monday encouraging the kids to talk about their weekend etc. Its mind numbingly boring and the kids hate it.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader says he “hates” school. And that’s not a word we encourage him to use. But hard to argue.

Kids hate school. What's new?

What a supportive comment!

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader says he “hates” school. And that’s not a word we encourage him to use. But hard to argue.

Kids hate school. What's new?

DP but it is new in our house.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader says he “hates” school. And that’s not a word we encourage him to use. But hard to argue.

Kids hate school. What's new?

Most K-2 kids don't hate school in a normal year. This is completely new.

Anonymous wrote:My first grader says he “hates” school. And that’s not a word we encourage him to use. But hard to argue.

Kids hate school. What's new?

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

The slow weeks are the absolute worst. My kid is bored with the normal speed, especially since half the time is reminding kids to get back in their seat and to mute. The slow weeks are excruciating. Ugh.

Feeling for all of you and your kids. Mine is PK and since it's optional we just don't go. But we're not at a stage where we worry about knowledge retention like you do in K-3. I feel awful about all these kids dreading sitting around on computers all morning (who doesn't?!) and hating school. It's awful. That we couldn't even find a way to bring this age group back into the classroom even part time, even for a few months, is unbelievable to me. It feels like we have been abandoned by the government, and I think the kids feel it too.

Hugs to all of you. This is so hard.

My 8yo doesn't mind DL. Is he excited? Hardly. He had fun doing stuff he likes. He likes wearing pajamas to school. Even that might help some of you struggling with DL. Like you said, make it fun.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have young kids who are dreading starting "school" tomorrow?
Any changes planned in the way you manage or participate?
Looking for helpful ideas.

Did anything interesting happen over break your kid might be excited to share with the class - Did Santa bring an exciting toy? Did she watch a funny new movie or did he lose a tooth? I’m trying to get my younger DC pumped for tomorrow using that as a tactic (similar to what we’d do during non-covid times after holiday break).

Getting excited about the rest of the week will be another story, but one day at a time.

Well, that's what my 6 yo hates about online school. They are not interested in hearing how each kid spent the holidays. It's too slow and boring. In person yes. Online, it's painfully boring.

Our kinde is similar. Very little chit chat. Yelling at them to mute when they do. A whole lot of drilling the kids on stuff most of them already know. My kid seems ok about “going back” tomorrow, but I predict this mood will fade quickly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have young kids who are dreading starting "school" tomorrow?
Any changes planned in the way you manage or participate?
Looking for helpful ideas.

Did anything interesting happen over break your kid might be excited to share with the class - Did Santa bring an exciting toy? Did she watch a funny new movie or did he lose a tooth? I’m trying to get my younger DC pumped for tomorrow using that as a tactic (similar to what we’d do during non-covid times after holiday break).

Getting excited about the rest of the week will be another story, but one day at a time.

Well, that's what my 6 yo hates about online school. They are not interested in hearing how each kid spent the holidays. It's too slow and boring. In person yes. Online, it's painfully boring.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have young kids who are dreading starting "school" tomorrow?
Any changes planned in the way you manage or participate?
Looking for helpful ideas.

Did anything interesting happen over break your kid might be excited to share with the class - Did Santa bring an exciting toy? Did she watch a funny new movie or did he lose a tooth? I’m trying to get my younger DC pumped for tomorrow using that as a tactic (similar to what we’d do during non-covid times after holiday break).

Getting excited about the rest of the week will be another story, but one day at a time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

Which grade to you teach? The activities my son's 1st grade teachers comes up with probably sound like a lot of fun but it just doesn't work out in practice, unless the kid has a parent there to help out. My kid doesn't and feels like a failure every time he is not able to accomplish the "fun" activity on those old clunky laptops they are using.

+1. My 2nd and 4th do not enjoy ‘fun’ activities online and ‘slow’ just means tedium. They would rather the teacher teach something substantive and interesting and then let them get off the call and do something that is actually fun.

Well, take that up with administrators that push teachers to keep elementary aged students in live sessions all day and begin curriculum as soon as winter break ends. One of my colleagues ended a session 15 minutes early because his students were drained and got a nasty email from admin about it.

Remember we have bosses that dictate most of what we do. Please don’t blame teachers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

Better not to think about the reality on the other end...

Exactly. It's a very sad spectacle from here. Little kids trying to follow instructions but finally giving up because it is just too confusing or they are too shy to speak up. I'm sure the handful advanced and extroverted kids are doing well. But the majority is not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

Which grade to you teach? The activities my son's 1st grade teachers comes up with probably sound like a lot of fun but it just doesn't work out in practice, unless the kid has a parent there to help out. My kid doesn't and feels like a failure every time he is not able to accomplish the "fun" activity on those old clunky laptops they are using.

+1. My 2nd and 4th do not enjoy ‘fun’ activities online and ‘slow’ just means tedium. They would rather the teacher teach something substantive and interesting and then let them get off the call and do something that is actually fun.

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I am looking forward to it. The sooner we get started again, the sooner it will all be over. It will be a slow week for us. I do not plan on overloading them and instead, just doing some review type of work with no homework and only participation grades. Lots of fun activities and keeping it short.

Which grade to you teach? The activities my son's 1st grade teachers comes up with probably sound like a lot of fun but it just doesn't work out in practice, unless the kid has a parent there to help out. My kid doesn't and feels like a failure every time he is not able to accomplish the "fun" activity on those old clunky laptops they are using.