The Newman Family

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Virtual Learning Week 9 Karen/ Week 8 Brandon and Wesley

Another week of virtual learning is done. Things are slowly opening back up around here. Starting tomorrow non essential stores will be open for curb side pick up and charter fishing boats reopened today. Beaches will also be open for Memorial Day weekend but with social distancing still in effect.

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. We went to get flowers and vegetables to plant at Richie's in the morning.

We then went to walk at Dorbrook Park.

I put this collage together for my mom of all of her grandchildren.

We had the firepit lit and all of the grandparents hanging out social distance on Mother's Day. We ordered food from Tuzzio's and took turns going to get our food to eat.

I also put together this collage for Stu's mom of all of her grandchildren.

A beer delivery from Icarus

Some memes

Brandon had this Honor Roll certificate emailed to him for the third marking period

We watched the NJ Air Guard flyover on Tuesday from the beach

One of my students

Working on his soap carving for cub scouts

Stu took this picture of the sunset one night

Cub Scouts on Wednesday

Brandon needed a funny picture with his instrument for band

Dunkin Donuts is selling decorate your own donut kits. It was a big hit with both kids.

The PTA at my school put together a video for teacher appreciation day. These slides are the ones that had my students.

On Friday Wesley's class said goodbye to their student teacher.

We had a social distance visit with Brandon's friend Laila and her family.

Yesterday we went to Shark River to walk.

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Virtual Learning Week 8 Karen/ Week 7 Brandon and Wesley

We finished another week of virtual learning. Unfortunately we found out earlier in the week that school will be closed the rest of the school year. We knew it was coming but still hard to hear. We also found out the first session of rec camp is canceled. We will hear about the other two sessions by June 30th. There will be no bussing for it if the two sessions do happen. So the earliest that Brandon and Wesley will have something to do is on July 20th. We are also still waiting to hear about the beach club. There will definitely be social distancing if we are able to go and other restrictions (talk of lower capacity, possibility of face masks, etc). It will take a long time for things to get back to the way they were before all of this.

Last Sunday we went to the Manasquan Reservoir. We walked the entire way around it which was 5 miles!

This past week was Teacher Appreciation Week (my school celebrates next week for some reason). Wesley's PTA had them do something each day to send to their teachers. The first thing he did was write a chalk message to his teacher that I sent on Monday.

Working on our newest projects- a sand castle bank and picture of Gus

Brandon and Wesley temporarily lost their minds earlier in the week.

Wesley was excited to get mail from his teacher earlier in the week. She sent a Mother's Day project that they did in zoom on Friday and something for them to make for their student teacher whose last day is this week.

Not the news we were hoping for but knew it was coming

I had a virtual pajama party for my class on Monday night. The students came in their pajamas, brought a stuffed animal, we did a calming go noodle, and I read a bed time story. They had so much fun! Wesley came to it with me.