breetheflea
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,890 
Location: PNW
|
Post by breetheflea on Feb 2, 2021 3:22:02 GMT
My kids are virtual, but my 1st grader's teacher mentioned no exchanging of Valentine's this year due to COVID. They will have some sort of in-class party which we can attend via Zoom...
I hadn't even thought about it, but when I went to look for Valentines stuff to add to my curb-side pick up, I didn't seem many too choose from, but maybe it's just that store.
Are other schools not allowed to exchange cards, or is it just mine?
|
|
|
|
Post by travelsoul on Feb 2, 2021 3:30:27 GMT
My kindergartner is exchanging valentines. We are 100% in person, at a private school, so the school has more flexibility with what they can do. We have to bring the valentines a week in advance so they can sit undisturbed until they get passed out. We followed the same protocol with Christmas and Halloween treats.
|
|
|
|
Post by MichyM on Feb 2, 2021 4:00:43 GMT
I was wondering about school Valentine’s Day stuff when I was at the drugstore last week. I saw fewer boxes of cards and seemingly less candy as well. Such a bummer that children will miss out on this tradition as well this year :/
|
|
katybee
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,378
|
Post by katybee on Feb 2, 2021 4:03:37 GMT
We are. The kids have to bring their valentines by February 8 so they can quarantine for a week before I sort them into bags. They cannot bring any treats that are not pre-manufactured and pre-packaged. Even my virtual kids can bring in valentines to exchange and their parents can pick them up on the day of the party. Definitely a modified version of our party, but my principal is still letting us have it. But again… She was out partying at a bar this weekend… So she’s kind of a Covid denier.
|
|
cycworker
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,375
|
Post by cycworker on Feb 2, 2021 4:09:15 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces.
|
|
|
|
Post by deafpea on Feb 2, 2021 4:12:30 GMT
My pod (4th/5th grade at a Deaf school, 14 students total, 12 in person, 2 online) is doing digital valentines. Partly to avoid any Covid concerns and partly to teach the students how to use clipart, make graphics and use email. Should be fun. They can bring treats if they want but they have to be store bought and prepackaged. I'm not sure what else we're doing for Valentine's Day.
Merilee
|
|
|
|
Post by grammadee on Feb 2, 2021 4:16:18 GMT
My pod (4th/5th grade at a Deaf school, 14 students total, 12 in person, 2 online) is doing digital valentines. Partly to avoid any Covid concerns and partly to teach the students how to use clipart, make graphics and use email. Should be fun. They can bring treats if they want but they have to be store bought and prepackaged. I'm not sure what else we're doing for Valentine's Day. Merilee What a cool idea to have them do digi valentines! |
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Feb 2, 2021 4:43:07 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. kindergartner sneezes, wipes nose on hand, puts valentine into bag. Kid gets the valentine and then touches some part of face...or they put the valentine in their mouth for whatever reason |
|
|
|
Post by Crack-a-lackin on Feb 2, 2021 11:48:10 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. Did they? It’s unlikely to get it from surfaces but I haven’t seen anything that says you can’t. |
|
paigepea
Drama Llama
Enter your message here...
Posts: 5,609
Location: BC, Canada
Jun 26, 2014 4:28:55 GMT
|
Post by paigepea on Feb 2, 2021 11:51:46 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. My dd is not allowed v-day exchange this year. They are in person since sept. To be honest I wish they’d be done with the v-day card exchange so it doesn’t bother me even though there is no pressure to participate. They did a secret Santa exchange within their grade. The gifts had to be in one week early for quarantine. They know it’s an airborne virus but it was to eliminate any doubt. I thought it was overkill. |
|
dawnnikol
Prolific Pea
'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
Posts: 7,871
Sept 21, 2015 18:39:25 GMT
|
Post by dawnnikol on Feb 2, 2021 11:54:02 GMT
My kids are remote, but their school does have in person, so we use the lobby to drop / pick up. We had to have our cards there (signed only) early so they could just quarantine before the teachers (who had to agree to the exchange) can sort them into bags with the kid's names on them. They'll quarantine again, then we'll pick them up for the Zoom parties.
I could've just skipped the entire thing, but it makes my kids happy, so I'll roll with it.
|
|
|
|
Post by birdy on Feb 2, 2021 14:15:56 GMT
My dd is in high school (online) this year... but reading the neighborhood facebook page, some of the elementary schools in our district are and some aren't. It's up to the principal.
|
|
katers415
Junior Member
Posts: 87
|
Post by katers415 on Feb 2, 2021 15:54:40 GMT
My kids are in school full time, in person, but they are not allowed to hand out Valentines.
|
|
katybee
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,378
|
Post by katybee on Feb 2, 2021 16:12:49 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. I don’t know. I don’t make the rules. My district (as most districts in the U.S.) are so backwards in their covid response. They do all the covid theater and nothing that will REALLY make a difference... |
|
|
|
Post by iteach3rdgrade on Feb 2, 2021 16:31:19 GMT
We are quarantining cards. We do the same with library books. It's a simple thing to do and we haven't had large outbreaks. We've been f2f all year.
|
|
|
|
Post by sean&marysmommy on Feb 2, 2021 16:33:50 GMT
Could you contact your child's friends and mail Valentines instead? We homeschool and normally get together and do a Valentine "party" at the park with fellow homeschoolers, but this year we're just mailing Valentines to all of her friends, and vice versa. Not as exciting, but it's something.
|
|
|
|
Post by travelsoul on Feb 2, 2021 16:56:52 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. All paperwork and shared supplies have to be quarantined for a week before it can be passed out. It’s a requirement that the school has to follow in order to remain in-person in my county. We’ve been in-person the entire school year and have had zero community spread in our school so I think all the precautions, as excessive as some of them are, are working. |
|
Peal
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,524
Jun 25, 2014 22:45:40 GMT
|
Post by Peal on Feb 2, 2021 18:15:37 GMT
Awww, the valentine tea in the school library is one of most cherished memories of elementary school. I'm sad that kids who want to participate are going to miss out. Just one more thing this pandemic screwing with.
The last school valentines our family did was when my youngest was in 2nd grade. We had moved to TX between grades and his new school didn't acknowledge any of the holidays.
|
|
|
|
Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 2, 2021 18:33:40 GMT
My kid’s 100% virtual class is exchanging Valentines. We have to drop them at school this Friday and I would imagine we’ll have to pick them up sorted next week.
|
|
|
|
Post by christine58 on Feb 2, 2021 18:35:35 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. This!! |
|
|
|
Post by MichyM on Feb 2, 2021 18:49:32 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. Did they? It’s unlikely to get it from surfaces but I haven’t seen anything that says you can’t. According to the FDA, you are correct Crack-a-lackin: "It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. Jan 26, 2021" |
|
|
|
Post by iteach3rdgrade on Feb 2, 2021 19:00:32 GMT
Aside from masks, separating groups and spacing kids out, everything else we seem to do is based on cleaning surface areas.
|
|
|
|
Post by SockMonkey on Feb 2, 2021 19:03:10 GMT
My kids are virtual, but my 1st grader's teacher mentioned no exchanging of Valentine's this year due to COVID. They will have some sort of in-class party which we can attend via Zoom... I hadn't even thought about it, but when I went to look for Valentines stuff to add to my curb-side pick up, I didn't seem many too choose from, but maybe it's just that store. Are other schools not allowed to exchange cards, or is it just mine? We are hybrid at the high school and we don't even use paper handouts. Everything is digital. No shared objects. Exchanging something like this would mean lots of hand washing, even though it's unlikely (but not impossible) anything would be transmitted via surfaces. But like, spit-licked valentine's envelopes. Yucky. |
|
|
|
Post by tc on Feb 2, 2021 19:20:50 GMT
Interesting. My second grader is handing out Valentine's. We have been f2f all year and his class of 21 basically sticks together and they don't mingle with any other class - even within their own grade. They do have two remote students at the moment in his class. His class hasn't had to quarantine, but other classes within the school have had to. We can start bringing them in Feb 4th, but I think if you bring them in on the day of the party - Feb 9th - they'll still accept them and make sure they get passed out. We have break starting on the 10th through the 15th. Part of the note home said something like, "you don't have to bring anything in if you don't wish to participate and you can do with the valentine's whatever you would like once they go home." They are not going to open them in class. Just gather them in a decorated gift bag and take them home.
|
|
|
|
Post by workingclassdog on Feb 2, 2021 20:53:18 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. This!! They are just following the rules the schools set... I for one am so glad this phase is gone.... DD is in 7th grade so no Valentines... |
|
Enna
Full Member
Posts: 296
Location: The land of the midnight sun
Jan 26, 2016 14:55:35 GMT
|
Post by Enna on Feb 2, 2021 21:30:49 GMT
I just wanted to comment that in my country there is a now cases where people got the virus from a surface. There was a sick person in a gym and few people who weren't in the gym at the same time got the virus from there. They are saying that virus stays alive better on some surfaces, especially hard ones like gym equipment is.
So I can see a point with quaranteening the valentines.
|
|
|
|
Post by Flowergirl on Feb 2, 2021 23:40:18 GMT
My pod (4th/5th grade at a Deaf school, 14 students total, 12 in person, 2 online) is doing digital valentines. Partly to avoid any Covid concerns and partly to teach the students how to use clipart, make graphics and use email. Should be fun. They can bring treats if they want but they have to be store bought and prepackaged. I'm not sure what else we're doing for Valentine's Day. Merilee I tutor my nephew’s 4th grader who is FT virtual and this is what his class is doing as well. Each kid makes a digital valentine for every classmate then the teacher is compiling a Google doc for each kid. I think this is very kind of her...I imagine it’s going to take her some time on top of academic responsibilities. |
|
cycworker
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,375
|
Post by cycworker on Feb 3, 2021 23:14:38 GMT
Why are you quarantining the Valentine cards? Covid is an airborne virus; they've realized you don't get it from surfaces. kindergartner sneezes, wipes nose on hand, puts valentine into bag. Kid gets the valentine and then touches some part of face...or they put the valentine in their mouth for whatever reason Fair. I had not considered that.  No masks in schools for kinders? We, admittedly, are high school only but it's possible we'll be moving to lower grades as of tomorrow's announcements. |
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Feb 3, 2021 23:46:07 GMT
kindergartner sneezes, wipes nose on hand, puts valentine into bag. Kid gets the valentine and then touches some part of face...or they put the valentine in their mouth for whatever reason Fair. I had not considered that. No masks in schools for kinders? We, admittedly, are high school only but it's possible we'll be moving to lower grades as of tomorrow's announcements. in Colorado under 10 they don't have to wear masks. |
|
|
|
Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 4, 2021 6:03:48 GMT
I just wanted to comment that in my country there is a now cases where people got the virus from a surface. There was a sick person in a gym and few people who weren't in the gym at the same time got the virus from there. They are saying that virus stays alive better on some surfaces, especially hard ones like gym equipment is. So I can see a point with quaranteening the valentines. I would think the typical kid’s Valentine cards that they trade wouldn’t be any riskier than going out to your mailbox and getting your mail. The other thing to consider with a gym is the restrooms. The Covid virus has been found to be present in fecal matter which could be aerosolized every time the toilets are flushed, so IMO that would be a more likely source for spreading Covid in a gym than random equipment that someone sneezed on. |
|
