Big Mister is in 3rd grade. His district is completely distance right now. I really like his teacher and I feel like the 3rd grade team has built a plane that flies pretty well most of the time. They use a software called, "Schoology" and it works pretty well. The teacher "drops" the assignments and lessons early in the morning and the kids can work at them at their discretion. They have a Google Meet for the class every day at 10:30 and goes for a little over a half hour. Big Mister is in an Immersion program, so all the programming is in Spanish. The whole third grade team works together, so his teacher does a video math lesson, and two other teachers do writing and reading. So Big Mister gets his reading and writing instruction from teachers other than his main teacher. But again, the team is strong.
(There is no science or social studies at this time). The teachers have "office hours" from 2:00pm-2:30(?) so if the kids have questions, they can log into a google meet and talk with the teacher. Big Mister has done this twice that I know of. Once that I encouraged him to do, and once that he took the initiative and did himself.
The specials are the same for the whole week- so this week, he has gym. Last week he had music. Next week he has art.
On the mornings he wakes up with me, I take him to work with me and he does his school on an iPad in my office. He is getting better about not needing me to hover over him. He is getting better at asking me when he needs help. Sometimes, though, when he doesn't understand something, (could be the concept, could be the assignment expectations, could be the Spanish, could be the technology), he will sit and look at his iPad for an hour. (this has happened a few times) He is figuring out to knock out the more work intensive ones first. On the mornings he wakes up at XW's house, he does school with her. (She is a school social worker and working remotely until October 1st, then will be be hybrid in her district).
At the beginning, I was ready to punch a nun because of frustrated with him not being able to do simple things I thought he should do, but I got over it. (No nuns or anyone else were harmed in the making of this posting) And I'm actually pretty proud of him now.
Me: BS Upper 40's
Her: XWW younger 30's
Married Sept. 2010
DDay Thanksgiving 2015
Dday2- Jan28ish, 2016 -new affair
One child (Big Mister) born in 2012
Divorced Sept. 2, 2016