I thought I would update-- found a writing curriculum I had purchased last year for my 7th grader and we did not use, Writing Strands. I pulled it out and my junior and I have been working through a few worksheets. She was able to write a couple of decent paragraphs utilizing narrative and objective voice for a fiction prompt. She read a couple of passages and answered some questions without difficulty (e.g What is the setting, what is a conflict, what is the plot etc.) The next assignment was " Write a well-organized paragraph explaining how two of the following elements ( character, plot, conflict, setting) work together. Be sure to start with a topic sentence and to provide specific examples to support your point. "" So-- this is her break down point. She needs more explicit instruction and smaller steps at this point. BUT-- I have a good starting point, now just to figure out how to love her beyond this point.

I'm willing to try a different brand if it will help me get my asthma under control. I'll order some tomorrow

I haven't it found it to work at all. I have arthritis in my thumbs and tumeric made no difference. I would love to find a supplement that did help.

I would guess the goal is to limit exposure. If you choose to play a sport, you choose to be exposed while playing. They don't want additional exposure on the sidelines or by parents.

I am searching, I'll post back if I find something. Right now our co-op is leaning towards a 7-day quarantine for a primary exposure in a classroom with a mask. I'm not comfortable with the 3 day rule our local school district is using, but a 14 day quarantine for some sitting 25 feet from you with both wearing masks seems excessive. Ugh.

I have looked all over for something on Taiwan but no luck yet.

Talk to me about an exposure. If someone in your family test positive, then of course an automatic 14-day or longer quarantine for everyone in that household. Locally, the school district has put forth a 14-day quarantine if you have an exposure at school without a mask (This would only be sports, everyone doing face-to-face school must wear a mask or a face shield). If there is a direct exposure in a classroom, the quarantine time for the kids in that class is 3 days. Covid positive kiddo stays home of course. I can't find any information about an exposure with everyone wearing a mask, except for my local hospitals. They have their nurses and other staff continue to work unless they are symptomatic regardless of the number of times they're exposed.

They homeschoolers who will not cooperate with the mask rule have already dropped.

Good info.

Thank you!

It does, thank you! I was just reminding myself that she made a 1200 on her PSAT last year and had not yet taken Geometry. This year she will be taking precalculus and should score even higher. She is actually pretty strong academically she just has no desire to dive into literature to write.

It was 108 here yesterday so class is outside aren't really an option until the end of October. The problem I see with getting a test is it takes a week to get the results and by the time you get the results you may have been exposed.

All of our students have to leave the building at lunch anyway, so parents come and pick up and they figure out what to do for lunch.

Oh yes. If you so much as cough you have to leave. It's going to cause a lot of people to miss when they just have the sniffles or allergies but it can't be helped this year

We aren't set up to be able to rotate teachers and not students. We are an a la carte style co-op and you pick and choose which classes you want to take. when weather permits will open windows and turn on fans but are HEPA filters are the kind that will filter particles are small as Covid19. It completely recycles all of the air in the room four times an hour at minimum.

Our local homeschool group is starting back up mid September. They are requiring masks or face shields for everyone, disinfecting tables every hour, HEPA filters in rooms, video conferencing for academic classes to encourage anyone who is not feeling well to stay home. I know many of you would not go regardless of the precautions, so please no ridiculing or derogatory remarks. For those of you who would return to your homeschool group for once a week classes what other precautions would you want to see in place.

The suggestions in this thread are excellent and should help anyone with a struggle writer.

I have thought a lot about this and I agree wholeheartedly. I can occasionally get her to read fluffy middle school fantasy books, but she really just does not like literature or writing in any form. She just doesn't. She has grown up in a literature rich house with two of her siblings thinking books are the most wonderful thing that the Lord put on our earth, but she doesn't like the written word. Not sure what you do with this type of kiddo, but somehow we'll get through.

Coming back to update and answer this above questions. No, she is not able to write a multi-paragraph anything. The college classes she has taken thus far only require a single paragraph answer which she can do. Several of the books I have ordered have arrived, but they seem to be more for *shaping* what you have already written than getting words to appear on paper. She is unwilling to try anything at this point. We have done a highly recommended online academy and in-person writing classes and she hasn't made any progress in the last 4 years, so she just wants to call it quits. So at this point I am not sure what we'll do. This kiddo is just a "I want to live a quiet life where I don't have to do anything or talk to anyone or think about anything other that sweet pleasant happy thoughts" kind of person. She'll find a easy 9-5 computer programming job and live as far away from people as possible and never read or write anything. She has loved quarantine LOL.

Lots of parents work full time and can't stay home with their kids.

I read many Texas Schools are requiring masks for all. Just saw one in Houston and one in San Antonio on the news saying they would require masks when they started back. They were both big districts if I recall correctly.

My kids are 100% homeschooled, so this doesn't affect them, but every school district within an hour radius of us is going to require masks for every single student all day. Parents have the option of using virtual school rather than in person, but something like 80% of parents want to return to in-person school. We live in a hot spot area. Is anyone else living in area where the schools will require 100% mass compliance to attend?

Perhaps the families have been quarantining specifically to allow their kids to have a fun party. I know 4 families doing this now. Or perhaps the families feel that the risk to their kids mental health is higher than the risk of becoming seriously ill with COVID. I recently saw a number that said the suicide rate has more than doubled in my area in the last 2 months. For some it makes more sense to take the risk and be social to help with depression.

I've read in multiple places that a face shield is equally as effective as a cloth mask. https://feeds.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/shields-compared-to-masks.html?_amp=true

Can anyone share what their local school districts guidelines are for returning to classes and or quarantining following and exposure. Specifically if a student attends class on Tuesday and tests positive on Wednesday. Clearly the infected student will be out until they are well, but what about the rest of the class? Assume universal mask wearing, hand washing, and general disinfecting. Social distancing is iffy but attempted. Some of my local school districts are suggesting that everybody who is in contact with the student for more than 15 minutes isolate for 3 days, others are saying return the next day unless there are symptoms. Our local hospitals are having exposed staff work until they actually have symptoms as well. Any information about what your schools are doing? At first I was surprised they were not doing a 10-day isolation, but then I realized it that would mean huge numbers of students would be missing school constantly.