November 1, 2013

I finished typing up the fluency labels, printing them out, and sticking them on note cards. There were supposed to be three-hundred phrases, three lists of one-hundred, but I ended up with 261 note cards. Less work for me.

I also continued scanning and editing artwork for the card art thing. I made it through quite a bit but there was just so much. And some of it required a bit of work after scanning. And then the librarian brought down a bunch more. The hardest piece was an oversized chalk drawing. I had a couple long ones that I had to scan in two halves and then put together but it was pretty easy because they both had a bunch of white space in between the pictures, so I didn't have to be that spot-on when putting them back together on the computer. With the big chalk drawing there weren't any gaps in it so I had to scan it in two halves, hoping I scanned them both fairly level and that there wasn't any discrepancy in color between the two scans. I ended up having to scan one side a couple times to get it right but I was eventually able to line them up and paste them together without it be obvious that I hadn't scanned it as a whole piece. At least that was my first impression, closer scrutiny may prove me wrong but I'm looking at the pictures blown way up on my computer monitor and in card art form they will be a quarter of a page. I kind of got the impression that maybe I was just supposed to scan them and not touch them up at all, just pass them along to the sixth grade teacher who was going to work on them. But I thought she was going to put them into the card layout, which is what I did last year. So I don't know.

There is a girl in second grade that I have reading centers with. She is pretty new but pretty much instantly annoyed everyone because she is the know-it-all, tattletaling type. Eighty-percent of her adult interactions are her tattling on another student. Today during centers her know-it-all personality was in full swing when she kept correcting the kid across from her and saying he was lying when he was reading facts about bats out of a book. The assignment was to read a non-fiction book and write down the facts the kids were learning. Every time the kid would say something the girl would say he was wrong, even though he was reading it word-for-word out of the book. It was literally every single time the kid read a new fact. It was incredibly annoying.

I got to work in the lunchroom for the first wave of kids today. I guess the parents who normally work couldn't show up so I was in charge of dishing out shredded cheese, sour cream, and salsa. I only did that for about a half an hour because the librarian, who asked me to help, wanted me to have time to eat lunch before my next class came to the lab. That was nice of her because earlier in the year when I was helping out in the lunchroom for all of lunch left me with no time to eat lunch myself.

Tonight at work I read another Goosebumps book and a little bit of one of the other books I am reading. I also watched about a half hour of Ender's Game. Everyone I know who read the book years ago, completely loved it. I read it this summer and I can't remember my exact review but I'm going to say I thought it was alright. Not life-changing. I was interested to see how they would interpret some of the stuff from the book, like the freeze gun game. And at least in terms of some of the smaller things I think they managed a pretty faithful adaptation. I can't really judge the adaptation as a whole because I saw very little of the movie but it looked promising. I could also be entirely wrong.