Wednesdays & E-Learning

 Throughout the majority of this school year Wednesdays have been set aside for asynchronous learning.  Teachers send out work on Google classroom for students to complete and they have office hours in the afternoon for questions, but there are no scheduled Zoom classroom meetings.  Some teachers have scheduled field trip on Wednesdays and standardized testing has also occurred on the middle day of the week, but overall Cameron has been at home almost every Wednesday since the start of the school year.  

As Cameron did not have a set schedule on Wednesdays we signed him up for morning tennis lessons on that day.  It worked well with his busy instructor and gave him something to look forward to on his day off from school.  I used the time he was at the racquet club for our weekly Martin's and Menards grocery run.  We had recently even added stops at Aldi and the eye doctor into the mix as well.  We always ended our day in Warsaw with a stop at Moe's or Panda Express to pick up lunch.  

The past two weeks were an exception to our weekly Wednesday schedule.  The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and Winter Break changed the day off for Bethany students, so they were in school on Wednesdays.  Today we were back at it, however, with a tennis lesson and grocery shopping to start our day.  Cameron has almost always driven on our trips to Warsaw and today I introduced him to state road 15.  After multiple warnings of how congested it would be at the stoplight by Walmart, we both had to laugh when there were only three cars (including us) in the area when we drove through.  We did get lunch at Panda Express to take home and were glad to get a call that Cameron's new glasses were at the eye doctor, so we could pick them up on our way out of town.  

I have really enjoyed our Wednesday mornings together and will miss them once Bethany returns to a five day weekly schedule.  Today Cameron had so little school work to do once he got home that he even agreed to an afternoon game of Life - old style.  I didn't remember all of the rules from my favorite childhood game, but once we read through them and got started, it was a lot of fun and a great way to end our day.