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We recently changed our editorial calendar to work on self improvement posts that may possibly help us to come out of the quarantine with better habits.  Today is one of those posts!I know that many of us are working from home while homeschooling our children. It's tough, but we have to find ways to boost our spirits and come out stronger.  My children recently found a butterfly at the park.  They giggled as it flew around them. They tried to memorize the design and colors on its wings so that they could try to google and learn about it when...

This mother’s day is going to look a little different to many of us than ever before. Without being able to have contact with students or ensuring materials they have available to them, these precious handmade gifts may not happen. This didn’t sit well with me and I have been racking my brain to think of what I CAN do with these limitations instead of what I can’t do with these limitation. So let’s dive into a few Digital Mother’s Day Ideas. Directive Drawings On Monday, my class is going to host several live classes, via Google Meet, to do...

We took a Sabbath week from homeschooling this week and it was really nice to have that break, especially when the weather was so nice, so I think we will definitely continue this practice. We didn’t get out for a hike as I still haven’t made masks for the kids, but I hope to rectify that this weekend. We’re having our last co-op meeting of the year today (via Zoom), so we’ll have all of our Fridays free for nature hikes from here out, which I’m excited about. Hopefully we can get out every week from now on! A note...

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Sophomore Zoe Scott waits for her bus to leave Murray High School on Thursday, March 12, 2020. Murray City School District announced Thursday it is closing its schools until further notice amid spread of the novel coronavirus in Utah. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News As the winter semester draws to a close in colleges throughout Utah, this parent of a college student wants to recognize the Herculean effort required of educators to transform to an online curriculum mid-semester. Both college and K-12 educators deserve our appreciation for their efforts to respond to an unforeseen environment that placed burdensome demands on...