Extra curricular, sports and classes questions

[waverly]

Not to be confused with the school post. Our state wants music class outside which is not possible for more than 2 months based on our unreliable weather.

DS would have started band and DD could start choir as extra curriculars. Would you just wait a year on those?

Also DD wants to do Tae Kwan Do. I was planning to wait 6 months to a year on that.

We think we will have bussing so we are planning on them bring bussed home where DH will work from home until November. We thought we would do 1 day a week at aftercare to keep that relationship for weird off days. They could do an extra curricular than.

Ones that might be easier to social distance are fit club (games kind of like PE but more game focus don’t have to be near each other, art club and board game club. Any thoughts?

Also we were hoping to do fall soccer. It looks like rec is open for registration but how to maintain social distancing? Games with parents would like be over our 50 people max? Maybe just email the rec org and see what their plan is?

I don’t mind taking everything off for fall, but just planning ahead, and the kids would be upset about soccer.

[twinmomma]

Our district starts offering strings lessons for 3rd grade. DD1 wants to do cello and DD2 wants to do viola. I have no clue how we will pull that off with remote/distance learning if they don't at least get a crash course in person first. But, I plan to just roll with it and let them sign up if it still happens. It's through school and they're both really excited to try it. It's such an inexpensive, really awesome opportunity that our district offers I want them to be able to take advantage of it. I'd skip choir for your DD - singing is one of the really high risk activities and it seems like it would be even worse in a school setting.

I do not plan to sign up for gymnastics again in the fall. I haven't heard a peep from our gym about what's happening with classes. I know the teams are back to practicing already. Normally you have to sign up by camping out for hours in line to grab a highly coveted spot and with no info released yet, I don't know what that process will look like. It's not cheap, so I'm skipping it, especially since I have no idea how our schedule with school, after care options, and custody will shake out. I think I'd hold off on Tae Kwan Do if I were you.

If you reach out to the soccer group, you'd probably feel more comfortable. That seems like the best option.

[sdlaura]

Originally I had planned to have the kids do soccer in the fall if it runs. But now that we’re leaning toward private school, we don’t know what pickup/aftercare logistics will be, so that may be too complicated. On the other hand, it would allow the kids to keep in touch with some public school friends, which would be good since we plan to go back to public as soon as we get back to more normal.

From what I’ve seen of camps and activities around here, providers are going out of their way to implement safety measures. Assuming that’s the case where you are, I’d probably feel comfortable with most kids activities. Also I know not everyone feels this way, but from my own research on COVID here and elsewhere, I’m not overly worried about my young kids suffering from or spreading the virus. I will be more concerned about me distancing from other adults at any activities.

[sandandsea]

We are still racing and doing soccer. Racing is outdoors and super easy to social distance and soccer has been doing social distance practices where every kid gets a square and is spaced out. They don’t have any games or scrimmages yet. I don’t want to take a year off of either and have him slide back and then not be able to catch up as both sports have diehards who are still doing everything without regard for Covid.

[186momx]

twinmomma, our gym just started rec classes this week and they are extremely small. Out director told us team parents that at the max only 12 rec kids will be in the gym at anytime and DD's group will only overlap the rec kids by 15 minutes to allow for cleaning. DD said that so far it is working but the rec parents are having issues not watching (gym doesn't have a big enough viewing area for distance spectating). So the gyms may just not be adding rec in yet especially if they just recently opened up. It took our 6 weeks to add a very limited rec classes.

For extras: DD is doing team gymnastics. She had already said she didn't want to do battle of the books in 4th grade so that would be the only extra from school and I really doubt that it will happen because you can't discuss books 6ft apart and our library is way too small to hold groups. Our school offers no other extras.

For soccer I think spectators could social distance at the fields during both practices and games and the coaches could keep the kids not playing spaced too.

[mommyatty]

DD was doing guitar and DS wanted to start piano. Their teacher has said she’s only doing virtual lessons, so we are dropping both kids out of it. DS really wants to go back to tae kwon do but I don’t feel comfortable with that. It was through school, so I don’t even know if it’ll be offered. I’d like to sign the kids up for golf to at least get them into the sunshine and burn off energy but neither seems interested.

[campermom]

Fencing is back on, they can allow for restrictions for that.

My son who fences is signed up for fall baseball and my daughter is signed up for field hockey. They haven’t announced yet, but won’t charge if it doesn’t happen.

I thought about soccer for the little one but may just hold off on that.