Second day was pretty good! All the kids that were flagged as behavior problems came today, so the dynamic was a little different. Nothing bad, just a lot of blurting out, whereas the first group was timid and quiet. We are doing blended learning, so I have half the class each day while the other half learns at home, and then they switch. It's awesome because I only have 10-11 kids per day, which is a huge change from my usual classes of 26-27. It'll be interesting to compare day to day with two different groups of kids.
I told my new student teacher that while this may not be a "normal" year, it will prepare her for anything and everything! (Except teaching 27 kids at the same time, apparently LOL.) If you can teach during a pandemic, you can teach through anything.
I also hope we can stay in-person and not go full remote. It's crazy how differently every district is doing it in my area. Some schools went to full remote before school even started as a precaution. Others are pretending there's not a pandemic happening and started normally, but with masks. The town I live in currently has 10 cases at the high school and like 100 people quarantined, but they're still proceeding with full, five-day, in-person learning as if that's not problematic. *facepalm* I think my district (in a different town) has a good balance and has put a lot of measures in place to keep everyone as safe as possible. We're able to to maintain social distance because of the low class sizes, masks are mandated for everyone, we're checking everyone's temps, and we have sanitizing stations everywhere. We'll see how it goes.
