Penelope Canonico
02/16/2021 3:47 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/16/2021 3:47 PM
"Look, I'm ready to start first grade," she says to her mother as she stands in front of the mirror to show off her sweater and skirt.
With the illusion of a 6-year-old girl, Libertad Norry has already
tried on the uniform more than 10 times
.
She carefully arranged her colorful notebooks and displays the supplies to her grandmother each time she visits.
Then he keeps them in the backpack that he has prepared
for two weeks.
It feels bigger.
He knows that at school you have to pay close attention and stay still in one place,
it will no longer be all games or movements
.
Her brothers, the twins Helena and Felipe, who passed to fourth grade, explained that she is going to start a new stage where she will learn to write.
"How long to start", she asks her parents as she
crosses the days off the calendar
and imagines the reunion with her friends.
Gone are the anger and crying triggered by the zoom delay that anguished her because they prevented her from being heard in time by her colleagues.
She is eager to discover an unknown universe, first grade at Colegio Buenos Aires in Villa Crespo.
Freedom (6) with their parents.
They say the uniform has already been tried on more than 10 times.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
“I explained to her that she is going to be sitting alone at a desk, that she should bring a mask, alcohol gel, a kitchen roll and a small individual bottle of water.
Also,
it cannot be shared
.
I hope the teacher can explain it to you with a pedagogical vision.
What more uncertainty gives me is how to
keep the distance at recess by congenital heart disease complex has Delfina "tells
Clarin
Delfina Arimayn (37) in the
middle of its internal contradictions, but with the conviction that the priority is
the continuity in teaching.
Without a school act, the family will have a special and symbolic breakfast to celebrate the new beginning of Libertad.
They will accompany her by car to say goodbye to her at 8.10 am at the door of the new road that she will travel from this Wednesday 17.
Thursday 18: expectation of the reunion
Guillermina and Marcos go back to school in Jujuy.
-This Thursday 18 classes begin, but pay attention to what I am going to tell you and remember that we are in a pandemic
Silvia Beatriz García (34) sat down to talk with her children, days before returning to the classroom, to explain the prevention and hygiene measures that they have to keep at all times.
With great expectations, Guillermina (5) and Marcos (7) Elinger will begin class 5 and third grade, respectively, at the Colegio Cristiano Evangélico Che-il, located in the Bajo la Viña neighborhood, San Salvador de Jujuy.
Excited by the reunion with their colleagues, they internalize at their own pace the new ways of bonding that the health emergency imposed.
Exhausted from virtuality
, where their parents were a bit of tutors, teachers and playmates, they yearn for the return to face-to-face classes since last year.
-Do I have to go to school? Asks Marcos when he wakes up
-There are still two days left, his parents tell him
The siblings miss peer chat, codes, and language.
The greatest expectation is to share
spaces for reunions
.
They long for brand new tools, which they have already bought.
Guillermina, a pink backpack and unicorn holster;
Mark a set of 12 colored pencils.
Also, they crave swimming lessons.
The swimsuits are ready in the closet, to wear when the time comes.
Mom, I don't take off my chinstrap because I can get coronavirus,
emphasizes Marcos.
But he forgets when he meets his friends.
"It remains in the word," says Silvia to express her concern about how control will be within the school environment.
Without a doubt, the first day will be different.
No welcoming ceremony or flag-raising.
The family prepares to attend school on time.
A gap of 15 minutes, to avoid an overcrowding of parents, separates the entry time of one and the other.
Another measure imposed by the Covid times.
Zoom for a week, then face-to-face
Camila (6) wakes up and asks when classes start.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
Camila Fabián (6) wakes up asking for the date when she will begin her first grade, as she likes to call it.
The tone of voice reflects emotion for all the changes that await her at the San Juan Bautista Institute of Valentín Alsina, Avellaneda.
She hopes to
meet her new friends and the ladies
who will accompany her in her training.
But his greatest desire is to know that he will take the first steps in the same place where his mother María Julia Arnejo (45) and his brother Nicolás (13) attended from Jardín to high school.
With the innocence and sweetness of her age, she tells her family members that she wants to enjoy playing with her friends at recess and buying various sweets at the school kiosk.
“He tells us that he is going to bring a lot of alcohol to share with all the boys and that he
misses the corners of the game
where he used to entertain himself,” says his mother.
-I want the coronavirus to go away, so I can go quietly to study.
But stay calm because I'm going to ask my classmates
not to take off their chinstraps and to keep their distance
, he tells his parents, who explained that perhaps the start will be virtual, from home, until next week (the presence could be from 2/22 or 3/1).
“She is very attentive to cases and is distressed when she sees that people do not take care of themselves.
When he hears that there are large gatherings or parties, he asks us if the parents of those people told them about the "little bug" that is running around ”, she tells
Clarín
María Julia.
Returning after 1st grade at home
Aukán and his mother with the preparations for the return.
Photo: Juan José García
Aukán (7) understands that returning to classes
will be different from what he was used to
and that he must respect the rules of a protocol.
His expectations for starting second grade at the Martín Miguel de Güemes School in San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, are not great because in first grade he only knew virtuality.
He did not experience classes with his classmates or have the opportunity to play at recess.
“The experience for those who started primary school in 2020 was not easy.
Auki
learned to read and write at home
.
He was lucky with the young lady who touched him because she shared her time and gave her the image and support of a teacher ”, thanks Anabel Franchini (43), her mother.
How to attract the attention of minors?
Anabel emphasizes that at her son's school they made a bingo game with which they learned to recognize and name numbers.
At other parents' school, they taught letters and form words with an interactive alphabet that each one had to put together in a corner of their home.
Board games with numbers from 1 to 30 to understand the mathematical operations of addition and subtraction, another of the proposals.
Auki will now face a
double challenge
: to return to the classroom and begin to go through primary school in person, but from second grade on.
The classroom space will once again become a place where you can celebrate the curiosity to learn, the knowledge and the pedagogy of solidarity.
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