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life with coronovirus around
Mar. 21st, 2020 09:47 am Had a phone call from my daughter yesterday. As I had expected, she's been classed as a key worker - she delivers the mail and parcels. This means that in the UK, she's entitled to keep Oswin at school so she can continue working. (though there won't be any formal education, just supervised play and other activities)
We had a very rushed phone call, as she had to get back to them very quickly.
It was calculated that grandad and I have enough energy to look after her and teach her for three full days a week, but she'll go into school for the other two days. This will also give her the benefit of contact with other children, which I feel is really important.
The school sent all the children home with an envelope of exercises in a range of subjects. They look like an interesting set of worksheets and they'll give us a good idea what is expected. We know we can take her beyond these in many subjects (because she's full of 'satiable curiosity - go read https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/ if you don't get the reference - it was one of my favourite stories as a little girl when my dad read it to me, and now Oswin loves me reading it to her), but we'll work through the sheets first and then build on that foundation.
They've also arranged for the all the children to have a log on for an educational web site.
the local library has closed due to the virus, but they're going to be looking into ways of getting books to children who are now at home. This is important, as they have some really great books on things like castles, Ancient Egyptians, etc.
I was hoping they'd keep the gyms open, but they're now closed. Yes, they're a source of infection, but for a lot of older people, they're also their main source of exercise. I think keeping fit is a useful defence against the virus. It's very clear now that the virus is homing in on those with existing health conditions, and exercise tends to help with almost all of them.
My main plan to deal with this is to get outdoors every day for a long walk, and to try to do some jogging as well. If I don't do some running or dancing, all the work I've done to get my legs back in order (or mostly in order) will be wasted. Quite apart from the benefit to my asthma.
We had a very rushed phone call, as she had to get back to them very quickly.
It was calculated that grandad and I have enough energy to look after her and teach her for three full days a week, but she'll go into school for the other two days. This will also give her the benefit of contact with other children, which I feel is really important.
The school sent all the children home with an envelope of exercises in a range of subjects. They look like an interesting set of worksheets and they'll give us a good idea what is expected. We know we can take her beyond these in many subjects (because she's full of 'satiable curiosity - go read https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/ if you don't get the reference - it was one of my favourite stories as a little girl when my dad read it to me, and now Oswin loves me reading it to her), but we'll work through the sheets first and then build on that foundation.
They've also arranged for the all the children to have a log on for an educational web site.
the local library has closed due to the virus, but they're going to be looking into ways of getting books to children who are now at home. This is important, as they have some really great books on things like castles, Ancient Egyptians, etc.
I was hoping they'd keep the gyms open, but they're now closed. Yes, they're a source of infection, but for a lot of older people, they're also their main source of exercise. I think keeping fit is a useful defence against the virus. It's very clear now that the virus is homing in on those with existing health conditions, and exercise tends to help with almost all of them.
My main plan to deal with this is to get outdoors every day for a long walk, and to try to do some jogging as well. If I don't do some running or dancing, all the work I've done to get my legs back in order (or mostly in order) will be wasted. Quite apart from the benefit to my asthma.
