Using new materiality theory, we analyzed teachers' and administrators' descriptions of educational practices and everyday life in schools during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, the virus and the Provincial Health Authority were agential parts of classrooms that both restricted pedagogical possibilities, as well as created openings for something new to occur. As educators taught "with the virus," pedagogy and curriculum unfolded rhizomatically shooting off in different and often unexpected directions. Our research makes visible how teaching is always a co-creative act of participating with the material, affective, and relational landscapes of practice.