Today on Zoom: one child curls up and sleeps comfortably in cozy purple sheets, one child sucks on a lemon and proceeds to tell me after directing the lemon toward the camera, “This is a lemon!’ Another child with a heavily bandaged hand, eats a large piece of pizza and informs me through yet another child translating, that she fell off a chair and ripped off a fingernail. The bandage and pizza appear to be falling all over each other. The final child in this class never does turn on her camera so it’s possible she may not be there. So we’re right on track for a Wednesday…
Overheard on Zoom…’He’s been in darkness all morning’. I wonder to myself…darkness. Spiritually? Metaphysically? Psychologically? Zoom camera malfunction? Things to ponder…
To toggle. Having toggled. I have toggled. I will toggle. I will have toggled. I would have toggled, had I known how to toggle. I had had to toggle before I knew how to toggle…and yet, yet…couldn’t I just say that I switched screens? Things to consider…
Quote of the afternoon: ‘After today we don’t have school and then after today we don’t have school and then after today we STILL don’t have school?’ I’m thinking we need to work on a few more phrases such as: ‘the day after’ or ‘the next few days’…
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