Today was a long but productive day. I had some time before work so
I went down to the second grade room and installed the state
assessment software on the laptop cart in there. Fourteen or fifteen
laptops maybe. Possibly more. I lost count. It's not a hard
process (despite the apparent need for that meeting) but it takes
awhile to pull all the laptops out and log into them and go through
all the steps and then put everything away.
The first MAP test was uneventful. Just a bunch of kids, in a room,
taking a test. When it was over I went down to the third grade room
to start installing the state assessment software on those laptops.
I got a few into the process when the third grade teacher came in
(they had gone to the computer lab after the test) and told me there
were a couple fourth graders wanting to finish a test. So I stopped
what I was doing and went to go watch them test. Neither of them
finished because they only had about fifteen minutes before lunch,
and they're incredibly slow (or thorough) test takers. When they
left I went back and finished installing the software on the third
grade laptops. And then came back to the lab and emailed all the
teachers to give me a heads-up if they wanted to send kids to the lab
to finish tests so I would know to be in the lab and not off working
on something else.
This afternoon there was another test. Uneventful except for the
fact that the lab was really hot. It was blasting heat this morning
and when I turned it down the heat went off but the air never came
on. With the added head of twenty-seven computers the lab just got
hotter and hotter. I propped the doors open with a couple reams of
paper and told the secretaries. They got in contact with the
maintenance guys, who were able to do something on their end, and the
air came on, which was occasionally cold, but it wasn't enough to
combat the heat in the lab. I had closed the doors at the beginning
of the test but we ended up propping them open again and I left them
like that for the rest of the day. Hopefully overnight everything
will normalize. And not be freezing cold. Although I would prefer
that over sweating.
Speaking of the reams of paper. I propped the doors open by putting
the paper in the door jamb. Turns out they were right about
head-level for a kindergartener because one of the really anyone
kindergarteners walked into one of them. He exclaimed “Ow, who put
that there?” And the kindergarten teacher replied “Maybe it was
put there to test if you are paying attention.” A perfect
response. And the kid obviously wasn't paying attention because he
walked into a big ream of paper while he was concerned with something
going on behind him.
The highlight of my day, only narrowly beating out the
kindergartener, was the fifth grade teacher giving me an apology card
she made for missing the MAP test yesterday. She thought it would be
funny to kind of make it sound like it was her kids' fault so she had
all of them sign it. It's pretty great. I think it's the only
apology card I've ever received but it is definitely the best.
I was so exhausted after work. I think it was a combination of the
long day and the hot computer lab and maybe a touch of sickness or
allergies. Thankfully I was able to take a short nap before going to
see the new volunteer kid. We sat at Sonic for about fifty minutes,
randomly talking about stuff while he worked on his homework. Some
of which was Physics. He was stumped on one question and I had no
clue but I was able to ask the right questions to get him to notice
the right stuff and think in the right way to figure it out. If that
makes any sense.
And now I am going to go to bed because I am freaking tired. And
tomorrow is going to be a long day. I need to quit the theater.
Friday doubles suck big balls.
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