This morning I was in the workroom cutting word cards, talking to one
of the paras, and she mentioned that she wanted to start saying
“yellow” more. I had no idea why she would want to do this so I
just said “Yellow?” And she became equally as confused as I was.
Turns out she said YOLO, not yellow. That made a lot more sense.
The misunderstanding became a running joke the rest of the day
whenever I saw her.
I ended up not having to help out with literacy centers this morning
so I spent most of the morning cutting cards. And I nearly finished.
I took a break for first grade and then helped some sixth graders
with their papers. There was a big Windows update that hit the lab
today and was a bit of a nuisance because kids kept accidentally
shutting down the computers, triggering the update, which took
forever, and kept kids from being able to use a lot of the computers
in the lab. Over lunch I initiated the update on the remaining
computers and all but one computer was ready by the time the first
kindergarten class showed up.
Speaking of that class, the teacher went across the hall to the
workroom to make copies and about halfway through the class I had to
escort one of the kids over there to hang out with his teacher
because he was being a bit of a handful. As always, he almost
immediately asked to go get a drink because he was “firsty”. I
explained that he could but he wasn't going to be able to go to the
bathroom later or get another drink. He agreed to this but a little
while later when someone else asked to go to the bathroom he also had
to go to the bathroom. I told him to go back to his seat. Then one
kid randomly got up to get hand sanitizer, followed by another kid,
and then the firsty kid. I moved the hand sanitizer and told them
all to go back to their seats. While all this was going on I was
trying to delete a profile from the registry of one of the computers
but every time I turned around the firsty kid was up wandering around
the lab instead of working on his computer. I finally had enough and
walked him across the hall.
This morning the music teacher sent out an email that she was going
to have a student aide this afternoon that needed community service
hours and asked if anyone needed things cut or copied or anything
else. I didn't respond but we were talking this morning while I was
cutting cards and asked if I wanted the student aide to help. I had
six finished stacks of cards to hole punch so I said she could help
with that.
I figured that was a backup plan if the student aide finished all the
other stuff people had asked for help with but it turns out my cards
were her only thing. Before she showed up I set up the hole-punch by
taping a couple things in it as a stopper so each card could be
butted up against it, creating a hole in the same place every time.
I then explained my process and what needed to be done to the music
teacher, who then explained it to the student aide when she showed
up. We all spoke briefly, and I checked back about an hour later
when both kindergarten classes had been through the lab, but other
than that I just let her work. I spent my free time recreating the
word cards in Publisher, just in case I have to make them again next
year. All the cards are connected, with no spaces like the ones I
was working on.
I didn't think the aide was going to get too far in the hole punching
process and I didn't know how long she was going to be there, but
about fifteen minutes before school let out her and the music teacher
walked in with all six stacks done and on rings. That was a pretty
cool surprise. I thanked both of them several times. I kind of felt
bad the whole time for pawning my work off on someone else, but that
is what the aide was there to do, she did a good job, and it helped
me out considerably. When I finished making the cards in Publisher I
went back over to the workroom, finished cutting the last set of
cards, and got them all hole-punched, finally completing this tedious
project.
Tonight I read half of the chapter for this week out of my research
book but that was about it. We don't have school tomorrow so guess
what I plan on doing? Buckling down and getting some grad school
work done. Yeah. That's a thing that seriously needs to happen.
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