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This 2 minute video for families features Glacier Middle School 6th Grader Miles Birklid and teacher Amy Birklid sharing about routine. We know how hard it is to do schooling online at home! Kids fight it sometimes, but their brains love structure. Try using a checklist. Short sustained focus: one strategy is set a timer for different tasks and take lots of breaks. Try different ways of doing things, there is not one right way. If nothing else, READ! Challenge: Think about the routine you have tried so far, what is working for your family and what is not? Revise the plan and be flexible!

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Hey White River families. This is the Birklids, and we just wanted to let you know that we appreciate you, and we love you. We know how hard these times are to do online from home. We just wanted to give you some of our tips and tricks that we use to get through. It is Monday morning and Miles is at Glacier Middle School, and he's getting ready for his day. Miles you want to tell everybody what we have on the board here, and what's worked for us? We like to use a checklist. For me, it's just my math, ELA and science, social studies, band, PE. Usually we try to get it done in 30 minutes or less, so that helps me get through. But you can set the timer to wherever you really want, if you want to try that. My little brother he likes, he has his chart over here, which has all his stuff that he has to do for today. So, what we found is that not having class periods, being in high school and middle school, is really hard on kids, and so if we can do... instead of doing math one day, and ELA another day, for our family we found that it worked out best to just start with math every day, and then go to ELA. Take a break, no matter what. So if he's done early, he's done early. He can use that extra time for ELA, or he can just be done early. He gets to take a break after those two, and then he does science for 30 minutes, social studies for 30 minutes, takes a break, then he does band for 30 minutes, PE for 30 minutes, takes a break! And then we also have to check in, because we have to open Family Access to make sure he doesn't have any missing work. We make sure he takes attendance every day. But we also - it's important to our family that we read, so we also - so, how do you start the day, every day bud? We start with reading. We start with reading - what does that mean? 30 minutes of just reading a book that's to your grade level. Miles do you have any advice for kids, or advice for parents? Nope. Nope? Just hang in there? OK! You've got this. We're here with you. You guys can do this, and so can we.

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