June 12, 2020 or the last day of school of the 2019-2020 school year. Lily sighed that it wasn't exactly how she had imagined her last day of Elementary School to be (she will start Middle School next year) and she did feel quite sad about it. Ennio on the other hand couldn't be happier: finally summer break! He had a
Zoom meeting in the morning with his 3rd grade classroom and showed off his self-made graduation cap (it was one of his assigned art projects of that week). He also had to deliver a "graduation" speech, which he had prepared in advance (it was another class assignment):
"Hello Room 13, my
name is ENNIO and I would love to thank you for being my classmates and
playing. I love doing field trips to the Aquarium and the Leonis Adobe
Chumash Village. My favorite part of the Aquarium was touching the jelly
fishes. My favorite part of the Leonis Adobe Chumash Village is going
in the tents. I love catching snowflakes aktivity because you can throw
snowflakes around and other people can catch them. I like having speech
setions. They are fun and the teachers are nice. Thank you all and my
teacher, Ms. Mittermiller. Have a good summer break!"
Lily was actually able to say goodbye to her teacher and some of her classmates
in-person. One of the parents had organized a "farewell" get-together in front of their house. Everyone was required to wear facemasks and keep 6 feet distance, but it was something she happily did just to be able to see her friends and teacher. It only lasted about half an hour but it really uplifted her spirits. I think Lily is the one who suffers the most in our family from this new reality.
The kids have a couple of weeks off now, but on June 24, they will start on-line summer school for 3 weeks. We don't have all the details yet on how this will be organized by LAUSD. It looks like it will be 2 hours of virtual teaching in the morning (math and ELA) and 1 hour of enrichment in the afternoon. I will give an update as soon as we learn more!
