‘These kids are coming back’: Reopened Montana school offers peek at what fall might bring – By Skylar Rispens (Great Falls Tribune) / May 26 2020
WILLOW CREEK, Mont. — Teachers at Willow Creek School in Montana wore cloth face masks and held 6-foot-long pool noodles while a handful of students played in the grass in front of the school.
Once recess ended, students lined up on orange circles spray-painted on the sidewalk at appropriate social distances and waited to be led inside. Each student was met at the door with a squirt of hand sanitizer.
“I think all in all, it’s really going smoothly,” said Bonnie Lower, superintendent at Willow Creek School, which reopened May 7. “The kids are adjusting to the 6 feet apart.”
“I think they need a little reminding,” added Diane Gilbreaith, who teaches fifth and sixth grades at Willow Creek. “Honestly, the pool noodles are a great visual.”
Teachers use the pool noodles throughout the day to remind students of social distancing.
“All we have to do is just hold it up and they automatically know, ‘Hey, I might be a little too close,’ and they back right up,” Lower said.
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