As the world changes all around us thanks to CV-19 our morning walks around the lake and up Mt Ainslie bring us great solace. It's actually a beautiful time of the year in Canberra, which we must stop and appreciate more often, particularly after our hellish January and February start to the year!
Canberra schools (with no advance notice) became pupil free on Tuesday this week. We were due to do school drop off and pick up for Ella and Abi anyway this week, so that announcement made it easier and much calmer for all of us.
They made great use of our new (old) table set up in the winter garden most of Tuesday morning doing art work and construction projects. It should prove very handy over the coming months if ever the girls want to work on their "home learning plans" over here.
We spent Tuesday afternoon outdoors, making sure we kept the mandatory "social distancing" from other people - together with lots of hand washing.
Abi is a great nature/animal lover, and there are plenty of opportunities around here for her favourite bird whispering activity .........
.... and plenty of puppies around for park play. There's every variation of poodle crosses in our Hassett Park. The big bouncy golden retriever/poodle cross puppy (Oscar the Groodle) was a big hit with Abi.
Abi and I checked out some of the memorials along Anzac Parade (the first time we've done this together).
And I knew she'd LOVE the beautiful, larger than life size bronze horses in the National Boer War Memorial over the road from our apartment.
And she did (of course)!
The girls stayed overnight with us and then we started work in earnest on their "home learning plans" on Thursday. So far the girls (and us) have coped very well with enforced home schooling. They are very lucky - Jody is a trained teacher, they have great access to learning through their devices, there is a mountain of resources (paint paper games tape books) they can draw on at home and each of them is making regular contact with their teachers who monitor their learning. I am so impressed with what the schools are doing to support the girls' learning through Google Classroom and other means.
We did it all again on Friday, although by the end of this huge, disrupted week, with the world getting crazier and crazier by the hour, Ella and Abi decided to make it a "stay in your PJs day" - all day!
But it didn't stop them getting into work projects .....
Ella's had all her after school activities cancelled, including her beloved Gymnastics - and Abi's horseriding class was cancelled at the last minute too today!!
Joshy was able to sign her up for a 30 minute, one on one lesson this afternoon instead, much to Abi's delight - on Tinsel.
I think Joshy will try to keep this arrangement going as long as possible (and pay the big bucks). She made extraordinary progress under the very watchful eye of her tutor - and LOVED it (of course)!
Our girls are so lucky that their lives can be so good in these crazy times; fingers crossed we can keep it all working like this, despite how crazy it gets in future!!
They made great use of our new (old) table set up in the winter garden most of Tuesday morning doing art work and construction projects. It should prove very handy over the coming months if ever the girls want to work on their "home learning plans" over here.
We did it all again on Friday, although by the end of this huge, disrupted week, with the world getting crazier and crazier by the hour, Ella and Abi decided to make it a "stay in your PJs day" - all day!
But it didn't stop them getting into work projects .....
Joshy was able to sign her up for a 30 minute, one on one lesson this afternoon instead, much to Abi's delight - on Tinsel.
I think Joshy will try to keep this arrangement going as long as possible (and pay the big bucks). She made extraordinary progress under the very watchful eye of her tutor - and LOVED it (of course)!
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