We (my priceless family) found a silver lining with school shutdown - my boy’s new interests. Basketball (instead of soccer) so we put up a basket on a tree, fish so we got an aquarium and fish, and plants and planting (none of these were his hobbies or interests before). He has 7 boy cousins to play with so doesn’t miss school but wants face to face when it finally (and hopefully safely) starts back up).
Have others found silver linings during the shut down.

 

Just to add that if anyone has a school age kid and is tempted to go down the home schooling route, with DEPED approved modules available, no problem if you would like to come and have a look at example module and what's involved. Just let me know.

 

My son's school started home teaching by weekly modules four weeks ago. The kids and teachers spend best part of two days at the start of the week on video conference discussing the work and then they are left to complete the modules at their own pace. Now that we are in the swing of it it's going pretty well. Took some time for the teachers, son and me to get our heads around some of it and to start it was heavy going, but the size of the modules has been reduced by order of DEPED. The modules are DEPED approved and once classroom teaching recommences, we can choose to send him to school or continue with the home learning. Pros and cons with both of those, but maybe if the social side of things is sorted by then (e.g. he can start playing football again), then no need to go to a school for that.