The Keene Family

Because the kids are home all day every day now, with no sports or activities, they have a little more time on their hands than usual. We have school at home daily 8:30-12, and then we have a lunch break and dog walk together, then they do some chores. But around 1:30 or 2 they are available until dinner chores at 5. This is how they've been spending their time...

We've been doing a lot of adjusting lately to doing things remotely that we used to do in person. Haley's gymnastics meets M/W/F for an hour over Zoom. I workout and walk with friends... from six feet away. Some of our friends can't even come over, so we Teams call them into art activities with us. The kids are using FaceTime, MarcoPolo, and Flipgrid to keep in touch with friends from school and sports. It's a whole new world!

Schools in our area announced closures for six weeks starting on March 16, the day we brought Maverick home. So we decided to do some school-at-home similar to summer time, but a little more organized. Soon I had all three fifth grade boys and two third grade girls in the neighborhood enrolled in my remote learning group! We kicked off on Monday, March 16th with "Pi Day" activities in person - even though Pi Day was March 14. We just needed a way to get started. Everyone met at our house to get logged into Teams, OneNote, and make pies!