How do you deal with proposed intermittent school closings?

Next fall, some schools may be on staggered schedules, hybrid classes, and intermittent school closings?  Are you feeling panicked?  Don’t!  Start a plan today.  Our small household is planning to school all summer.  Right now, the nine year old, Paul, works on school for about four hours each day.  There is plenty of time for bike riding, guitar practice, reading, and Legos.  This summer, our plan is to school for three hours in the morning and have camp with fun activities in the afternoons.  Why?  Paul is enrolled in public school.  He has already missed two months of school.  The work assigned from his elementary teacher consists of Choice Boards.  These activities take about one hour each day.  Paul is studying Zoology 1, Saxon 5/4 Math, History, Easy Grammar, Vocabulary, Handwriting, and Reading: Mud Shark, Holes, and Wrinkle in Time.  Paul has an English anthology, a host of history books, dictionaries, etc. School continues over the summer.  We are using this time to develop research papers, learn how to make a slide show, understand how to use a dictionary, manipulate a digital microscope, create timelines, and life cycles, practice hand-writing, improve his math, etc.  Let’s get to work and use this time to get ahead, not tread water!