I recently had an all – remote learning week. It was the week after Thanksgiving break. It was so that anyone who had been vacationing had a week before back to school too make sure they didn’t have the virus, I think. But we still had work, and calls for most classes. I would organize my at home days like my school days (A and B period LA, C period history, D period science, E period French, F period science/movement, G period math) I didn’t do the exact times, but I did the subjects in that order. I usually had calls for most of my classes, but sometimes I didn’t and sometimes they were optional.
When I didn’t have calls I would get the independent work done for that class. One of my favorite classes is science, and we had to build a device that would save an egg from a 10 foot drop. Mine was very complex. I wrapped the egg in so much bread it no longer resembled an egg, shoved in a zip-lock with some tissues, and used another plastic bag as a parachute. And it worked! We also made a comic in Language Arts. We had a lot of fun projects that week. It was surprisingly easier to do the work at home because I could work at my own pace and take breaks when I wanted.
One of the definite downsides to the all remote week was that if you had a question for a teacher, you couldn’t just walk up and ask them like at school. Some teachers had optional calls for questions, which was helpful, and you could email a teacher a question. But it was harder than asking in person. Still, that’s the only thing that was really to complicated. I would wake up at around 8:00, set my alarms for the calls I had, and start my work.
Overall, it was a good week. Working at home for me is an easy way to get used to middle school work and honestly this remote learning thing (like I said before) means you can take breaks when you want and work at your own speed.
