Students at Agnes Barden Elementary School are participating in summer camp with CDC guidelines for COVID-19.
Of school.
In macon jw doctor killcrease says the district is trying to decide whether it will assign teachers.
Students in bibb county are experimenting with socially distanced learning.... through summer camp.
41nbc's peyton lewis shows us how.
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Children at agnes barden elementary are participating in the summer camp in order to prepare for in school learning this fall.
Administrators are using covid-19 guidelines to help kids and parents understand how socially distanced learning could work.
*standup* each day when students enter through the doors here at agnes barden they are given a bag with a coat and a mask to help protect them from covid-19.
The camp is for kids starting kindergarten in august.
Parents can drop off their child, but are not allowed inside.
Once students put on their personal protective gear, they are seated at socially distanced tables.
The school's early head start director, jacquice jones, says the school has not had trouble getting kids to follow c-d-c guidelines.
"it hasn't been difficult for them at all.
We still reinforce the conversation when they come in, and even if they may start to get a little bit closer to their friends we'll be like, "remember you have to stay 6 feet apart" and they'll say "okay" and go back to their area."
Jones says, the students will be 6 feet apart at all times, and teachers set timers for hand washing every 15 minutes.
The camp will last until the end of july, and will allow students to continue learning to prepare for the school year.
Ceo of bibb county boc, sarita hill, says her school is prepared for whatever kind of learning the county allows.
"we're definitely waiting on bibb county to decide which ways they want to do it.
We have to follow them because of course they have older kids that are going there.
So we're just trying to wait, but this is a taste of how we would make it through in august when we get ready to get started.
Normally a classroom would have 20 kids, we might be down to 10 kids."
In macon, peyton lewis, 41nbc news.
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