I've used Seesaw with my kindergarteners for several years. I probably learned about it during an #ecechat (early childhood educators Twitter chat) with Heidi Veal @vealheidi, Nancy Alvarez @techwnancy and Jessica Cabeen @jessicacabeen in 2015 or 2016. And thank goodness. While my school is using Zoom and Google classroom as our platforms in common, the …
Adventures in Distance Kindergarten
It's hard to believe that just a couple weeks ago, we celebrated Super Hero Day together. At school. In quite close proximity to each other. And then on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was scrambling around school - mostly between the kindergarten room and the copier - making word family books and pbl books and math …
Zack’s 12th Birthday 🎂 🎈 🎉
My childhood friend, Christine, posted this Saturday morning and it seemed like the perfect way to start the day. 💗 Zack was a good husband and let me watch the terrible NBC coverage of the Olympic marathon trials while we cooked and got ready. 😊 After I ran with my friends, Christy and Clare, I …
February break
Zack hasn't been away in the #holmawayfromhome since the weekend he hurt his knee skiing at Mt Lassen in mid December. It'd been since Thanksgiving for me and we were both feeling a little stir crazy/cabin feverish! Saturday late morning, we headed south on 395 and stopped at the Mono Lake overlook to get the …
World Read Aloud Day
February 5, 2020 We celebrated World Read Aloud Day all day thanks to many staff members who took time out of their school days to share literature with us! I read the first book of the day. An old favorite, which was a gift from my mom as part of her longtime support for Heifer …
Start putting weight on it now!
Zack had another follow up with the PA today and got lots of great news including that he should start to really push himself to straighten and flex to 100 degrees, start putting weight on it to get to full weight bearing in 2 weeks and can get off crutches in a week or 2! …
Non knee related outings!
This weekend we had only non-knee, non-medical outings. It was really fun! Saturday morning, I went for a run. In the early afternoon, we did done errands. If you look carefully through the deck railing, you can see Molly watching for Zack. 1st stop. Psychedelic 🚙 wash. Zack requested a Schwarmageddon gyro. After Schwarmageddon, we …
An update in 3 parts
Zack's solving his cabin fever with some extra curricular speech therapy app time. Client completed a verb network strengthening task from 10:36 AM to 3:24 PM (active time = 00:55:16) on Jan 22, 2020 using Verb Set 7 in the Advanced Naming Therapy app. Client was asked to generate up to 3 agents and patients …
PT today!
After over 10 collective hours of calling (but mostly on hold) Optum, Zack has a pt appointment today. Conveniently, it is while my kids are at lunch, recess and pe. Thanks to Christina, my friend who teaches 1st grade, who is going to help my students out of their snowclothes and get ready for PE …
Out to the HolmAwayFromHome
(WordPress has a new editing software that seems like it's easier but I can't figure out to crop pictures. Sorry!) Today, I got home from a run, we had some reuben lunch then Zack was ready for an outing. He had hoped to get to the office today but his sleep is still very irregular …
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