First Day of School

We feel fortunate that our kids got to return to school this year. Alyssa is at Willowcreek Middle School for 9th grade. Our High School is in the process of expanding, but until that is finished, the 9th graders have to attend at the Middle School. She started school on Aug. 18th. They are just about finished with first term and have attended 5 days a week, in person. The school district has been telling kids who have been exposed to COVID to quarantine for 14 days. None of our kids have been exposed so far, knock on wood. 

They get to wear masks all day, which they all love.

She doesn't follow the mask rule when she is with her best friends, though.

Ashley is back at American Heritage this year. She is still getting used to the homework load required for 7th grade. She is also attending school 5 days a week. Her first day of school was Aug. 19th.

Camden started Kindergarten this year. He is at the public Elementary School-Snow Springs.  It's been a rough year for him, so far. He came down with a fever the day before school started, which lasted for the whole first week of school. Then, last week, he had to miss another week of school because of a stuffy/runny nose. Fortunately, he hasn't suffered academically, since he knows most of the stuff that they will be teaching him this year in Kindergarten. His first day was supposed to be Aug. 25th, but it ended up being Sept. 1, instead. 

Tyler is also at Snow Springs. He is in 2nd grade this year and loves his teacher and his new school. He especially likes riding the bus to school. His first day of school was the same as Alyssa, Aug. 18th. After about 2 days, a good chunk of Tyler's class had to be quarantined because someone in his class had COVID. Fortunately, he wasn't close enough to whomever had it so he got to still attend school in person. 

I took this picture of Tyler one morning at the bus stop. I thought it was funny how his whole face was covered between the eye mask and the nose and mouth mask.+

So far, it has been an okay school year. The kids are making the best of the situation. I think they are just happy to be in school. We did find out that because of the growing number of cases in the secondary schools, they are changing over to a hybrid schedule for 2nd term. Basically, Alyssa will have 4 days in person a week and one day online. She isn't thrilled about it, but it's better than only 2 days in person which would probably be the next step if the number of cases doesn't decrease.  We are really looking forward to the day when this is behind us and we can be around people in a normal way again(without the face masks and without the fear of being exposed).