Friday, March 20

This will be my last blog post until Monday, March 30, as the school will be closed for Spring Break next week. I just wanted to share a really neat idea that I found online and that some of you might be interested in doing! Basically the idea is to keep a journal throughout this unusual time of self-isolation and canceled classes and changed plans. In this journal, you can write about how you're spending your time while not at school - the activities that you're doing to keep yourself occupied, the shows you're watching, games you're playing, books you're reading and so on. You can write about how the rest of you family is handling this time as well, and what it means for your parents and their jobs. How is your life different now than it was even a week or two ago? How is this pandemic impacting you personally? How are you feeling about this? You can go as deep as you would like! This could become a collection of writing just for yourself, that you can look back on when you're older to remember what it was like to live through such an unusual time. It could be something that you share with your family and maybe even pass on to your own kids and grandkids one day! Perhaps, like the link suggested, your journal might even become a primary source for future historians - an authentic text that will give people of the future information about this time period and what it was like for children living now. Just think, future children could be reading quotes from your journal in their Social Studies textbooks!

Whether you choose to keep a journal or not, I hope that you are continuing to find engaging and exciting ways to fill your time! Check back in on Monday, March 30 for my next blog post and more information! Enjoy your Spring Break everyone!