Subject: Re: [MK8] Routines when teaching a la cart

All the resource (specials) teachers are going into the classrooms,
including PE - he's doing his health curriculum instead of PE curriculum
right now. They eat in the classrooms, teachers switch instead of students
for the team-teaching grade levels (3-5). Each class has a designated time
and a place for recess outside, but nobody is allowed to use the playground
because the custodians don't have time to clean/sanitize the equipment
between classes using it. Our school district gave everyone (staff and
students) five cloth masks, but I use the ones my mom made for me out of
music fabric (I have some Doctor Who ones, too, finally had a use for the
cloth I had bought at JoAnn just because it was there!). I wear those
around campus when I'm not teaching and on Fridays when the kids aren't
there, but when I'm in the classrooms to teach I wear a KN95 mask.
I read something recently that said we were still basing what we are doing
on our May understanding of COVID and not the August understanding of it.
Schools are focusing so much on sanitizing surfaces even though we know
that while it can be transmitted that way, that's not the primary way.
Evidence is pointing more and more to aerosol transmission, not just
droplets, yet we're keeping kids indoors in the same space for 7 hours a
day and not making sure the ventilation is adequate - at my older school,
probably not as good as it needs to be to keep the air turned over. Sigh.
At least I'm only in each classroom for 45 minutes at a time (55 for 5th
grade).
Hang in there, everyone!
~Ann in NC
Ann Wells - annmusic7@gmail.com

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 4:56 PM Davis, Esther wrote:
> Are the PE teachers going into the classroom? Are the students eating in
> their classrooms? Do they have recess outside on playground equipment?
>
> I am pushing into the classrooms. I have a small grocery basket, the double
> decker kind. I decorated it and have my keyboard, boombox, sanitizer, maps,
> posters, instruments that I use only. I have many body percussion
> activities. It took me a week to know how to teach. The first day of school
> I had 13, 000 steps. 🤕😵 I have on gloves, two masks and a shield. So glad
> to hear your story and we learn from each other. I am in Texas.
>
> Esther Davis
> Fine Arts Teacher
> Music Memory UIL Coach
> Link-Up Recorder/Vocal Coach
> J.L. Everhart Magnet International Baccalaureate
> 2919 Tryon Rd.
> Longview, TX 75605
> 903.803.5422, (my office)
> 903.803.5400, (main office)
> 903.803.5401., (fax)
> website.www.lisd.org
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 1:36 PM Ann Wells wrote:
>
> > I have 20 classes right now - we usually have 6 or 7 kindergarten
> classes,
> > 6 classes each 1-3rd, and 4 or 5 each 4th and 5th, but two (or in one
> case,
> > 3) teachers per grade level right now are teaching the students who opted
> > for online-only instruction, at least through the first half of the year.
> > We are also on a hybrid schedule - in-person students come two days a
> week
> > and work online the other three. Half of the kids come M/W, the other
> half
> > come T/TH, everyone is online on Fridays. So, I am going to each
> classroom
> > two days in a row to see both the A and B groups of kids, which means I
> > will see everyone once every two weeks. Teachers still have to come in on
> > Fridays, and the classroom teachers have three hours in the morning for
> > whole and small group instruction via zoom then time for grade level
> > planning and meetings and whatnot. Once I get my in-person stuff squared
> > away, and the new PE and Art teachers are settled and don't need me as
> > much, I plan to use my Fridays to make videos for the online-only kids so
> > the teachers who do their resource classes (they are still basically
> > following the same schedule they'd have if they were at school) will have
> > something to show them so they aren't stuck with just two options most of
> > the time.
> >
> > ~Ann in NC
> > Ann Wells - annmusic7@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:00 AM Davis, Esther wrote:
> >
> > > How many classes are you teaching?
> > >
> > > Esther Davis
> > > Fine Arts Teacher
> > > Music Memory UIL Coach
> > > Link-Up Recorder/Vocal Coach
> > > J.L. Everhart Magnet International Baccalaureate
> > > 2919 Tryon Rd.
> > > Longview, TX 75605
> > > 903.803.5422, (my office)
> > > 903.803.5400, (main office)
> > > 903.803.5401., (fax)
> > > website.www.lisd.org
> > >
> > >
>
>
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