The good news is that next week is a short week because of MEA. The even better news is that I have 95% of my lesson plans ready to go for next week so I won't have too much to do this weekend. The bad news is that we now have to dismiss class at 2:35 to let the buses get where they need to go in time. My science/social studies time is slowly being chipped away! Now we have to end class at 2:30 so they can get packed up and pray. That's only 20 minutes of class! :( Oh well. Hopefully it won't be for the whole year.
Bad news: covid cases are up in both Nicollet and Brown counties, but, good news: they are still below the virtual learning threshold, so we can continue to have in-person school! Also, everyone in our school continues to be healthy.
This week the school board and church council decided to cancel the Christmas program, pending any further developments in covid cases. We had a staff meeting today and discussed ways to still have the kids do something to share the Christmas story. Right now our best idea is for each class to record themselves reciting their parts (or the nativity story) and singing a carol in their own classrooms, then splicing them together into one video to show at church/put online for people to watch instead. The 3-4th graders could even dress up in their nativity costumes and act it out! Time will tell if that's the way we'll actually do it. If cases go down and restrictions lift by November 13th, we can reassess and plan an in-person gathering, but for now all the higher-ups are saying no.
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