On Tuesdays and Thursdays the kids go to Hybrid school. The plan was for Haley to take afterschool Spanish. In anticipating the later pick-up, and considering the other 2 children had the space in their days, we signed Ian up for guitar. When the decision was made to take Hana out of gymnastics, we maintained her physical activity with afterschool PE. Doing afterschool PE also allowed her to try different sports in a group setting, which is something she craved that gymnastics didn't allow.
However, there was no afterschool Spanish offered for Haley. So our initial plan to have all the children stay until 4:30p didn't pan out. Haley is out at 3p, and the smaller kids end up staying there until 4:30, resulting in 2 pick-ups, and "wasted time."
Additionally, Ian has since started bass (and continues private guitar lessons with Ben). Ian initially found the afterschool guitar exciting (since many boys play guitar and he was a bit better than most of them). But he has since become frustrated with the teacher, and doesn't like the class.
Hana has been signed up for youth basketball, and her team coach has the first practice scheduled next week, Thursday. However, this presents a conflict for us with Haley doing debate on Thursdays and Ian doing swimming.
So we have had to make adjustments - stop afterschool PE and guitar.
Try to move Ian's swim practice up an hour (which we CAN do now that he won't have afterschool guitar). If Ian can do swim practice earlier, that will allieviate the "conflict" that Hana's basketball will present on Thursdays as Ian will swim, followed by Hana's basketball. Haley can still do debate, and as the season progresses, she won't require a parent to sit with her during all the club meetings for 3 hours each week, in addition to the 2-3 hours she has doing 'team work' with her teammate. This will free up even more time for the parents, especially since the plan is for Ian to start water polo and private enrichment swim instruction as the weather warms up in the Spring....
So we'll see how this 'new' plan goes....
