{"id":2430,"date":"2021-08-09T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:41:03","slug":"online-school-is-back-in-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2021\/online-school-is-back-in-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Online School is back in session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, Charlotte started second grade&#8230; It&#8217;s hard to believe that&#8217;s true but it is. My little baby is growing up so fast. &#8230;and, yesterday, Catherine started Pre-Kindergarten. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, both girls are currently studying online and it will probably be months in the best case scenario before they&#8217;re able to study in person. Cambodia is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2021\/covid-19-july-2021-update\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2190\">as I&#8217;ve shared<\/a>, vaccinating rapidly, but the delta variant is here and schools will likely remain closed until daily cases are significantly down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First Day of School Photos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine had her own idea of what she wanted her first day of school photo to be. I did get a &#8216;normal&#8217; photo but since she decided to pose so elegantly I decided to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2431\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=2431\" class=\"wp-image-2431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_080651-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2432\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=2432\" class=\"wp-image-2432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_083418-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You an see that both girls have inherited my gigantic feet. Good for balance but not for finding shoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online School<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Catherine received the good news that her new Teacher would be Mr. Joe &#8211; Charlotte&#8217;s old teacher. Catherine already knows Mr. Joe &#8211; and he&#8217;s excellent &#8211; so she was so beyond excited to start class even if it was online. I told her to get her pencil bag and she came back with the handwriting book she&#8217;s been tracing letters in over the break. &#8220;I&#8217;ll practice writing in this during class&#8221; she told me. I thought she was wise to bring something to do with her hands as online class isn&#8217;t really physical enough for a pre-K student even with an engaging and fun teacher. She has that very serious &#8216;I&#8217;m a big girl now&#8217; air to her that she gets every time she reaches a milestone that she saw Charlotte reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2433\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=2433\" class=\"wp-image-2433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210806_081929-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2434\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=2434\" class=\"wp-image-2434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlotte has had a harder transition as she moved from Mr. Joe to a new teacher. It&#8217;s not an easy transition to make online. She&#8217;s also feeling intimidated at being in Second Grade and feels that she can&#8217;t read as well as her peers. (We think she&#8217;s reading incredibly well considering how far she&#8217;s come since January &#8211; when she only knew a few words. But a few of her classmates can read English extremely well for their age and I can understand how that is intimidating &#8211; especially in an online only setting.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105455-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlotte did get a confidence boost with the first art project of the year &#8211; a self portrait &#8211; which her new teacher loved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_105659-edited-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Charlotte started second grade&#8230; It&#8217;s hard to believe that&#8217;s true but it is. My little baby is growing up so fast. &#8230;and, yesterday, Catherine started Pre-Kindergarten. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, both girls are currently studying online and it will probably be months in the best case scenario before they&#8217;re able to study&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2021\/online-school-is-back-in-session\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[124,29,73],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-cambodia","tag-catherine","tag-charlotte","tag-school","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20210809_090333-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-Dc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}