This week I received several emails from each of the kid's teachers all with various information and links to Google Meet with meeting ids. It has been extremely overwhelming trying to figure out how I am going to get the kids online at the right time. For one of my children classes are meeting on different days of the week. If your school is using Google classroom, most of the tools are already there, you just may need to help your kids get organized. I am surprised the teachers are emailing me things and not using all of the functionality of Google to manage things. That said, here is what I did that I think is going to be the best way to manage multiple schedules. I had each kid log into Google Classroom today. Then you can click on the waffle as the kids called it (the 3X3 dots for Apps by your profile picture). I then went to calendar. There for each child I loaded their class schedule from the paper one that was sent home. Then I also put in each calendar meeting th
Many of us have been working at home for months now and it may be time to invest in a small desk or office chair. I myself have been starting to feel like I am showing an arch in my back from leaning over to look at my laptop. You may want to consider a small desk for your children also if they will be spending an extended period of time completing school online this year. I just purchased a relatively inexpensive desk on Amazon for my middle school child. For the price it was pretty sturdy, just took some time to put together. I recently purchased the Atlantic Gaming Desk for one of my middle school children pictured above. Last school year sitting at the kitchen table was not not working well. I have room in the house to set this up in a spare bedroom so there is some quite space. The desk was pretty easy to set up, but the instructions are pretty sparse. Just make sure you double check the photo that comes in the box as a guide. I like there are metal legs as I am picturi