You are the Primary Source Year 2

We are living in some historic times.  What do you remember about the day that school shut down?  What do you remember about learning at home?  How did it make you feel?  You get to be the primary source!

20 thoughts on “You are the Primary Source Year 2

  1. My name is Kylie Pechart, I’m in 5th grade currently and during 3rd grade when Covid 19 or the pandemic started on March 13 friday 2020, it started out a announcement about us going home or for a week or so, and it was during Ms. Mergenthaler’s math class, and this kid in my class started to cry, they bawled their eyes out. One day when is was E.L.A class in Ms. Oddonals and I was at home in the kitchen and my friend Gavin asked if he wanted to play outside, but we were learning about monarch butterflies and I couldn’t leave until it was over. One year later a lot of people in my family died, my great grandma who’s my grandma’s mom pasted away because of covid and I think some kind of cancer and there was mass in her colon I think. I was in 4th grade at the time, And now I’m in 5th grade and the pandemic is over.

  2. My name is Sade. I am in fifth grade, but when I was in third grade, something unexpected happened. On March 13th 2020, my school was told to bring computers home with us. Everyone was confused, we were NEVER allowed to bring our computers home! Me and my friend were on the same bus, so he and I were trying to figure out what was happening. When I got home my parents were watching the news. WHAT ON EARTH WAS HAPPENING?! My parents NEVER watch the news! They told me what was going on, and I was STILL confused. Why all of a sudden was this Covid thing happening? How do these things just happen out of the ordinary? WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON? Well, soon I figured it out, it was a virus that could make people very sick, and it was not only known as Covid-19, but it was also known as Coronavirus. So just like that, I could no longer see my friends… and I had a LOT of friends, so it was really sad. We tried growing a flower for special (I don’t know which one), but the flower never bloomed, and even worse we had to wear MASKS everywhere we went! I can hardly breathe with a mask on! The only good things were: we still had Sunday dinner at my grandma’s house (she lived down the same street that we did), and I had a cat (I still have that cat). But then, my parents decided it was time to get a bigger house, so we started to pack up all of our stuff. Now, keep in mind that at this point in time we were living in a trailer, (NOT a truck kind of trailer, the house) and the trailers are pretty small, and we had: 2 adults, 2 teens, 1 child, 1 cat, and 1 toddler. So, at the time we were also in New Holland, but we moved to a WAY bigger and better house in Blue Ball. Something really cool happened at this house, I started to sort of understand what my cat was trying to say to me. Here are some things she started to say to me: Mom, help, yeah, no. But anyway, the neighbors came over to say hello and I played with them. In fourth grade (last year), we had to wear masks in school, but I made friends with Logan and some others. This year, we don’t have to wear masks anymore, and I get to see my best friend EVA, who’s been my best friend since we were… five, I THINK. Oh, right… We also have a dog now. Her name is Sage, which is scarily close to my name, and she chases my poor cat, who hardly even made it to the stairs before the dog got her this morning. So yeah, I had quite the adventure, and so did my cat (who calls me her mom),but it ended pretty well, didn’t it?

  3. My name is cameron and i survived covid 19 in 2019 to 2021

    When covid started and we were online i was loving it i didn’t do any work until my mom got a ton of phone calls i got in trouble a lot because i would just play video games and stay up until 3am.one thing i hated was my mom started asking the teacher if i did my work and she would look on to my computer to see if i did my work and a bonus for her was she took my ps4 so i couldn’t play my video games. When i got on my google meets i would still play video games but after i got all of my work done and then i would go outside and go play with my neighbor and then i got bad news i had covid 19 it wasn’t that bad all that happened was i couldn’t taste or smell anything even though i didn’t die there is a lot of people that did die. I had covid 4 times 1 time in 3rd grade and 3 times in 4th grade i had covid when no one else did and then all of my classmates had to go home because i had covid then i was able to come to school still because i can’t get it again until 4 weeks as long as my bus driver was still on the bus then i could come to school and when my teacher sees me in the hallway she calls me her only child.
    When I did have covid my neighbor didn’t care as long as I wore gloves I was able to play with them outside so we would play basketball and a game called who’s name,then we made up a game called jb 90 it was basically a doll that we would throw at each other. When i got done with my quarantining i was so happy i played video games all day and night i was grinding some fortnite and call of duty warzone it was so fun.
    1 year later now barely any people have covid and die from it if they have it and now in 10 i have a sister and 2 brother’s well i have 1 and one half because my mom got pregnant with another guy and one brother my mom actually got pregnant with my dad. I have 2 dogs like 7 fish and a cat i play baseball and football my sister play’s softball and soccer and soon going to play football i kinda talked her into it even though she is 12 years old her softball team is pretty good but my team is very good even though were 3 and 2 we won 3 games lost 2 march 9th 2022 we had a baseball game and we sadly lost me and my friend mason are on the same team.

  4. Hi my name is mason I am in 5th grade in blue ball
    I am going to be talking about what I did when the pandemic started

    On march 13 2020 we all got anoutsmants through the loud speaker. Hi sorry for the interruption but we all are going home for as long as it takes to get covid out. The class cheard. The next day we got on our first google meet. Our teacher wondered where some of us were, some kids were not on because they were playing video games.I honestly forget what we did till that winter.
    We wanted a trampoline so we looked and looked then we found one at tractor supply. We got it and assembled it. It was so fun. That Christmas we got a rug for my room and a pellet gun. It was a good year.After a couple weeks we got to 4th grade and I was happy in 3d grade we did not have to do pssa’s.then we got back to school and everything was normal except we had to wear masks And that was not fun. But I made it through that year then we came into this year and we do not wear masks anymore. The winter in 2021 was nice. We went deer hunting on a farm we had never been on before. That day we sat in a stand for a hour and a 4 point shows up and my egrenilen started up. he got 40 yard in front of us a thwack he ran I killed him we went back to the truck and called some people and waited for our friend then we headed back into the woods because our friend was taking to long. Then we found my deer gutted it and jug it out. Our friend met us right before we left the woods and helped us take some pictures. And that was a good day just after my dad shot a deer and black bear. I also shot a squirrel. This spring I went fishing and cout 11 trout and ate them all.That spring we also went on a turkey hunt and we spent one hour in one spot for one hour and saw nothing then we went to a couple different spots. we came back till back to get the truck at 11:30 and we were like hey 30 min of legal hunting time left and we just went over the hill we clucked and heard a couple down the hill from us and we tucked in a pile of brush they pop up at 100 yards and struts right towards us at 60 yards my dad asked me if I can get them in my red dot I say no. then when they get at 20 yards and there head were right next to each other my dad said don’t shoot and I said if I don’t know there going to get out of my scope. And then one puft up and lowered its head and the other one stuck his head in the air and I shot. He dropped and I was so excited so I called some people and that ended us up today.

  5. By Summer Quinn Santiago

    Hi I am summer I am in fifth grade
    It was friday march 13 2020 and we had just got the news that we would be home for a week because of covid 19 and we would be online learning and it was hard my granddad foxy passed away my uncle passed away and my grandpa shuppy passed away it was hard but I did school we had stem for special and . we were all afraid to go anny were people spent one trillion dollars on online shopping and people were waring masks

    The we found a hurt cat that someone had dropt of on th road we named him dubling hebhad a eye infection we took him to the vet and got him eye drops
    We keep him util we found him a new home he was jumping over fences
    And climbing the curtains
    He wook use up almost every day he wolde scratch the door and he loved butterflies .

    We got hima home and then I Was in forth grade and it was fun until in the middle of winter my mom told me I was fourth grade home shcool I did that and when I went to fifth grade people thought I was new now we have 10 days theft of school and I am righting this we do not have to have maske and we are almost all good.

  6. The story of Covid 19
    By: Noah Davis

    When covid started back in third grade we were in school when I heard Beep Beep Beep the principal came on the speaker and said.” Good afternoon blue ball elementary school for the next week we will be going online. The whole class shouted in excitement, but the week after that we were online for the rest of the school year a week later. This is where everything was getting worse. It was getting boring staying at home. Then it got worse thousands of people were dying.

    We were on lockdown I could not go anywhere. So I played video games for a while. Then something better happened social distancing. That meant I could go places but I had to stay 6 feet away from people. That means I could play sports Sike I could not play they shut down basketball, lacrosse, and football for longer.

  7. My Name is sophie and i am in fifth grade in third grade i got bad news that we are going home and they ansmentse says we are going home and it was on march 13 on a friday. when i got home my partes did not wants me to be home. they says oldman the kids are home and they got mad and i lost one of my grat grat grat grat grat grat grandpa he was so old he code not hear we had to speke so loud that i will hurt your ears drums he was 95 years old and my grat grat grat grat grat grat grandma she was so old that we had to speke so so so so loud that it will hurt your ears so bad and i had a grat grat grat grat grat aunt and her name was beth ross she was my aunt i think she is still alive or she might be dead i did not know that she was my grat grat grat grat grat grat aunt. That was in third grad in 2020 when coived stared. That is the end of my story hope u like my story. bye

  8. My name is Maxxus Bloomer and I am currently a student at Blue Ball Elementary School. I was in 3rd grade and it was March 13, 2020. The day was going very horribly for me. I thought the day was just gonna be a bad day, but it wasn’t. We got some amazing news for most people, “SCHOOL HAD BEEN CANCELED!!!”. I was very happy that we weren’t coming to school for a whole week. But I didn’t know why. So I rushed home and asked my parents. They told me it was a pandemic called Covid-19. I thought the day couldn’t get any worse, but it did. The week we were supposed to come back. They sent our parents an email saying that we weren’t going to have school for the rest of the school year. I started yelling and jumping on my bed because my parents told me that meant I could play on the XBOX whenever I wanted. I was happier than I’ve ever been. I thought I would never be happier in my life. But that thought wasn’t real because my mom told me that on May 5 we were gonna go to Disney World. I immediately ran up to my room and started packing everything I needed. We left at 5:00 am and I was very excited.

  9. It’s mar 13, when Mrs. Shrants came on the announcements about taking computers home and no school for a week. I was kinda scared because I did not know what was happening. It turned out we wher doing home school. I hated it, after the week i was exited to go back to school but we dident. Instead we stayed doing home school for the rest of the year. I was almost scared to go to school next year. But thankfully in 4 grade we only had a week in the middle of the year. I had the nieces teacher ever. Her name is mrs. williams, and william is my name!. 4 grade was the best year i have ever had. And so far in 5 grade there has been no homeschooling, yet. In 4 grad we had to wear a mask but i dident. I cant breath in them. Also fule prices went up. And i hope it does not ever happen agan. Now its 22 and people still want to ware mask. I think there scared. But i hav not worn one at all this year.

  10. You are the Primary Source By: Alaina Limoges

    Hello, my name is Alaina Limoges, and I am currently in 5th grade at Blue Ball elementary, and I survived the pandemic of covid 19. Although I was at Twin Valley elementary at first, it was probably similar to what happened here at Blue Ball.

    Friday March 13, 2020. I was in 3rd grade. It seemed like a normal day until we heard the announcements go off. That was the day all of our lives changed forever. “We have off school for 2 weeks. You will be going onto ‘Zoom’ for classes. More information will be in your teacher’s google classroom, and emailed to your parents. You will bring home your computers. I will miss you dearly.” That was the last time I heard my principal’s voice that school year. On the bus everyone was crazy! They were all yelling, and didn’t care how much the bus driver yelled at them. This would be our last day on the bus that year. The bus ride home was crazy, everyone was being crazy, and screaming. (I honestly think my bus driver was happy about it too.) When I got home I was sad. I wouldn’t see my friends, or have fun times at lunch, for 2 WEEKS. But it was way longer than that.

    Monday March 16, it was my first day on zoom. Nobody could pay attention, everybody was either playing video games, or sleeping. Me and my old friend Abby were really the only people that paid attention. It was horrible, I hated not being able to see my friends. Worst of all, I WAS STUCK INSIDE. Now all the things I used to love, like going out to eat, going shopping, and seeing my friends went down the gutter. I wouldn’t be able to do those things for a long time. We had to quarantine inside for a while. But I didn’t really care. I still went outside, and although I didn’t really play with my friends I still saw them. I was very happy that life didn’t change all as much as I thought it did.

    1 week into zoom, I was exhausted. I could barely stay awake during class, because I was in my own house. I fell asleep at least 3 times throughout the year. I didn’t really learn anything. Then, the 2 weeks were finally over. But we didn’t go back to school. “WHAT?” I screamed. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE ARE NOT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL.” I had just got the news we were not going back to school that year. I was so sad. I wanted to go back, I missed my friends. We ALL wanted to go back. But, we didn’t have much of a choice so we stayed on zoom. I wanted to see my friends again but I couldn’t, none of us could. We went through the rest of the year, and then through summer, and then up to the first day of the next school year. We all were wondering if we would go back to school, and WE DID!!!!!!! But we had to wear masks, so we went through the year with masks. That was my last year at Twin Valley elementary.

    Now I’m in 5th grade, at Blue Ball elementary school. We don’t have to wear masks, and everything is a little back to normal. The pandemic calmed down, and we all get to see each other now. I’m pretty sure we are all thankful for that.

  11. My name is Natalia Feliciano. I am 11 years old in 5th grade
    On march 13 2020 I got some insane news that we Were going home!!!
    But it wasn’t for a good cause, it was because of a pandemic called Covid 19 or coronavirus weird names right?
    Everyone was kinda scared, even me. We went online for the last few weeks of school. That’s when it all changed…. August 30th 2020, I was now in 4th grade, today was weird. I had to wear a mask in school. I mean yeah i wasn’t used to being out so it felt nice but a mask! In school!!! They were really annoying to wear all the time but I had to wear them to keep people safe. Sometimes we went online for a few days. In fourth grade it was no different. We wore masks for half of the year and then we stopped furth was fun but when we wore the masks that was a different story…

    Now everyone is happy with no masks and hope covid will end

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