Day 2 - Cast off Day and Darby O'Gill

Darby O'Gill and the King Brian Conners, King of the Leprechauns

Tuesday 3/17/2020

Status report:

WA State Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1012 (+108)
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 deaths: 52 (+4)
US Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 6300 (+1800)

US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 108 (+20)

The virus is taking off in New York. California is now on lock down. France and Italy are both on lockdown. With West Virginia announcing a case, now all 50 states have had positive COVID-19 tests. Oregon extended their school closure to be 6 weeks like we are here in Washington. Some schools around the country are talking about officially ending the school year.

First Corona Home school Day

We started our schedule today. It's pretty simple:

Wake Up (get dressed, breakfast, morning chores)
Morning Recess (family walk, trampoline, family Yoga)
Morning School Work
     30 mins Math (board games, worksheets, computer math game)
     30 mins Project time
     10 mins Write in your Journal

LUNCH

Afternoon Recess
Mom's Choice (movie or art project)
Afternoon Chores (basically, tidy up whatever is bugging mom most)
Free Time (kids can watch tv or play outside or whatev)

DINNER
Family time or Free time (depending on what we need)

And we're off to a great start! Betty and I had an important appointment, so Edgar and Sabrina were on their own with their school work. They did awesome! They are both researching their choice of subjects for their project. Sabrina chose Sea horses and Edgar chose Poison Dart Frogs. It's going to be fun.

Oh, but first, we had to pick up breakfast and lunch! Our school district is doing a very clever thing. The elementary buses are all still running. But instead of picking kids up, they are dropping off a sack lunch and breakfast to any kid 18 and under. It's been really fun actually to get up and walk down to pick up their food. And it helps stretch our groceries so we can avoid extra store trips. It's great. Here's Edgar and Sabrina in their St. Paddy's Day green, going to get food:




Today was also CAST OFF DAY!

Betty has been SO excited to get her cast off.



Our afternoon was pretty chill. We enjoyed our Disney+ and watched Luck of the Irish while Sabrina and Betty made Ninjabread men. Why? Because I'm organizing our pantry, and we found a box we never made at Christmas. That's why.



We ended the day with Corned Beef and Cabbage and Darby O'Gill and the Little People. It wasn't quite as disturbing as I remembered it. But I can see why it creeped me out. Crept? Creept? Creeped? It disturbed me. But now it looks so campy that I don't think it bothered my kids at all. But then, they are watching Lord of the Rings with us. So I guess a little banshee is nothing compared with a Nazgul.