How children are learning, through the daily interactions, how they’re, learning the habits to keep, translated…
Because of the outbreaks, my children started school a few weeks, and their summer vacation also, delayed for a few extra weeks; and, other than wearing the masks during the school days, they’d had to get their temperatures taken. We did this for an entire semester, and, turned the records in to their school instructors, and finally, we no longer, fill out their temperatures on the sheets now, pops felt relieved, but the three children, don’t believe so.
And so, the three of them ran over to me, to beg for me to let them hear that “beep” of the thermometer, I don’t want to let them use the thermometer, so instead, I’d, handed them the temperature patch that takes temperatures by having the patch onto the foreheads, and the temperature monitor on the card would change colors, the kind that’s used in the fish tanks.
Then, they came to borrow the pens, and, started thumbing out the notebooks I’d given to them, stated, “reading our own temperatures!”, I watched curiously, wondered, how they are to do this.
I saw them draw the boxes on the page, and wrote down their names, their seat numbers, then, took turn, placing the temperature card onto their foreheads, and read their own temperatures by the colors, jot down the date, and what their readings read, they really knew what they were, doing.
But, the temperature card only gives a rough reading, there’s no decimal point, and the three of them started debating how many decimal places after the thirty-six degrees they had from their readings. One said there’s a decimal, the other said there isn’t, and one more started, drawing out ladybugs on the sheets, then they’d come over to me asked, do we write a zero if the reading was “36.50”?
Uh………isn’t estimations taught when you’re in middle or high school? Are you guys sure you want to learn that right now? I’d still, given them the answers, but whether or not they’d understood was, beyond me.
Then, the one that forgot to draw the ladybug told me, “ahhhhhhhh, I forgot the antennas!”, thankfully, their daddy had been, used to, their, various kinds of weird and wacky ways already!
And so, this, is an interesting interaction between a father and his three young children, and, the children established that habit of having their temperatures taken regularly, from school, and they’re, extending it into their lives back home. This still just showed, how learning is occurring every second of every single day, and the kids will be more aware of their own health status, from the habits their teachers had, instilled into them.