When I got to work I finished up the paper die I was working on
yesterday and started on a new project, cutting out a bunch of game
pieces for a fluency Checkers game. Then I put velcro on the back of
each piece and on the squares on the boards. After that I started
working on typing up a bunch of fluency sentence fragments that will
be put on labels and then stuck to note cards. There are supposed to
be three sets of a hundred fragments but the first two have both
fallen short of a hundred. It's a little weird. The hardest part of
this project was getting the label template. There were several in
Word but the first few I tried had strange formatting and it was
frustrating me. I briefly looked online but the Avery website wanted
me to register to download their template so I went back to Word and
figured that out. As long as we have labels and note cards I should
be able to finish everything up tomorrow. I also scanned several
pictures for one of the kindergarten teachers.
October has been anti-bullying month at school and today was dress up
like a superhero day to fight bullying. It was also a clever ploy
(intentional or unintentional) to get around students not being able
to wear costumes to school for Halloween. I did not participate, not
because I am pro-bullying, but because I have a very limited wardrobe
and I'm not really into dressing up in general. The SPED teachers
(who are in charge of the paras) made all the paras little capes to
wear, and many of the other staff and teachers dressed up, too. It
was pretty cool. After school I had most of them meet in the library
so I could take their picture. One of the third grade teachers
thought it would be good for the beginning of the year slideshow
during the district-wide meeting. I also think it would be good for
the yearbook.
We had a physics assembly today put on by several college students.
They were all in Halloween costumes and they made their presentation
Halloween-themed. It was actually a pretty cool assembly and all the
kids really liked it. My favorite parts were the methane bubbles
because they floated up to the ceiling of the gym and were incredibly
flammable, and the hydrogen-filled balloons that had different types
of metal dust in them so when they were touched with a match they
exploded with a big bang and different colored flames.
On my way home I stopped at Target because I needed bread. I also
bought raspberries because I have never actually had them on their
own. Turns out they're not really my thing. The outside is kind of
hairy and feels really strange in your mouth before you bite into it.
The flavor after biting into it was alright but I don't know if I
can get past the weird texture.
Tonight I didn't have a visit with the new volunteer kid. Not
because he had Halloween plans but because he had a football game. I
asked him how the possible hernia turned out but he said he never got
to go to the doctors appointment because his foster dad had a heart
attack. That was a surprising revelation. I asked him how his
foster dad was doing and the kid said he got back home yesterday and
that he was doing alright. That was good to hear.
Tonight I watched SNL,
several Goosebumps
episodes, and I messed around in Minecraft.
With a brief bit of Terraria
to see if I could get any Halloween drops. And I couldn't. In
Minecraft I decorated
my house a little bit for Halloween and then loaded in the shaders
mod and took some screenshots. I also messed around with game
capture software and my video editing software. I think I discovered
a way to get my graphics card involved in the rendering process to
speed things up. The first time I rendered the video it took
fourteen minutes. The second time, with the graphics card being
utilized, it took five. I don't know if it was faster the second
time because the project had already been rendered and maybe the
computer saved some information (although I wasn't rendering the
already rendered video). But if it was just the addition of the
graphics card that is pretty impressive.
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