Post by estrellita on Jan 24, 2023 13:26:12 GMT -5
MN here, so pretty much Canada 😂 E is 7, 2nd grade. He sometimes wears his snow pants on the bus if it's especially cold or snowy, otherwise they go in his backpack. He wears boots on the bus and keeps shoes at school. They go outside for recess as much as possible and play in the snow a lot. I'm not exactly sure when that ends. The intermediate school is 4-8 so maybe then? I feel like when I was a kid I would have stopped at 6th when I went to middle school maybe? For A (5, in preschool), we leave a pair of snow pants on her hook and bring shoes in her backpack, and she wears boots.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Jan 25, 2023 11:03:54 GMT -5
Not helpful, but I just want to say major props to all of you parents who have to deal with sending in a whole separate outdoor wardrobe to school every day, then getting it dry before the next school day. I'd honestly never considered all of that since I live in Florida and the most I've ever sent to school is a warm jacket (which usually gets ignored in favor of a hoodie).
Two years ago my daughter's second grade teacher got cold really easily, so if it was colder than about 60 degrees (which it frequently is for us in winter in North Florida) she'd tell the kids it was too cold to play outside and they'd have indoor recess. It used to drive me nuts.
Yes, the first few years of school were the worst, as DS would come home with absolutely soaked gear from rolling around in the snow at all the recesses. I'd send him with a back-up hat and mitts and they'd all come home wet. We always had two (sometimes three!) pairs of snowpants that fit him, so just in case I couldn't get them dried in time due to after school activities or whatever I'd have another pair to send the next day.
Not helpful, but I just want to say major props to all of you parents who have to deal with sending in a whole separate outdoor wardrobe to school every day, then getting it dry before the next school day. I'd honestly never considered all of that since I live in Florida and the most I've ever sent to school is a warm jacket (which usually gets ignored in favor of a hoodie).
Two years ago my daughter's second grade teacher got cold really easily, so if it was colder than about 60 degrees (which it frequently is for us in winter in North Florida) she'd tell the kids it was too cold to play outside and they'd have indoor recess. It used to drive me nuts.
They just kept their snowpants at school. Maybe it would have been better to have them home in case of a snow day but generally speaking it was better. Wet or not, I guess I didn't know because they were at school. They were supposed to bring them home for the weekends, but DS usually forgot.
Daycare was the worst, so I had a daycare pair and a home pair for those years.
Not helpful, but I just want to say major props to all of you parents who have to deal with sending in a whole separate outdoor wardrobe to school every day, then getting it dry before the next school day.
We have multiple sets of outerwear. There is no scenario where I count on having things dry and ready for the next day. We have multiple levels of gear and they can be interchanged to accommodate school recesses. We have normal gear which is waterproof and warm enough for 30-60 minutes outside just below freezing. Then we have ski gear which means you'll be outside in -20 for hours and you'll like it, damn it. Then when it's milder, but still really wet we have rain clothes which are just a waterproof shell to pull over your normal clothes. On any given day we can assemble some outerwear set to suit the weather.