Tuesday, November 11, 2014

November 11, 2014

I forgot to mention that I got an email from my group member yesterday who is working on the presentation. She sent the PowerPoint she has come up with so I spent some time reading over it and sending her some corrections. Just the obvious things I noticed as well as some things that didn't quite match up with what I remembered from the articles. Hopefully she will find that helpful.

Today was a very slow day. I had kindergarten literacy centers this morning so that took up thirty minutes. And the sixth graders came down to the lab for fifteen minutes to practice their typing. I spent my free time reading through one of my textbooks and starting my second reflective journal entry. I ended up working on that off and on throughout the day.

The first graders also came in and I was talking to the teacher about the Odyssey login because the password is ridiculously long for first graders. It's too long for some of the second and third graders as well. And it's too long for me because I log in all of the kindergarteners so I have to type it in almost a hundred times every week. Anyway, the teacher was talking with someone who said he knew someone somewhere in the chain of command that can change Odyssey passwords and they will actually stay changed, unlike when I did it several times and it kept changing back. So the plan is to get the password changed to the kids' lunch number, just like their username, for kindergarten and first grade. That will be nice.

The afternoon wasn't anymore exciting. Normally I have both kindergarten classes but we had an assembly that overlapped both of their times so they ended up not coming. Just in case I typed in the log-in information for the second class and then after the assembly I went around and hit 'enter' on all the keyboards to log everyone in. And they ended up not showing up but that ended up being a good thing because I finally learned how to close browser windows with a keyboard shortcut (alt+F4) which is way easier than having to go around and do a bunch of mouse clicks.

The assembly was the second graders' Veteran's Day performance, which they gave for a bunch of veterans after the parade, then they came back to the school for the assembly, and they had another performance tonight for their parents. That sounds exhausting. It was a decent assembly but there wasn't a lot of choreography so I've got to say I've seen better.

After school I went to Target to get some things. I mainly went for cough drops and peanut butter but I also decided to get cheese sticks. I normally get the Weight Watchers brand, not because I'm health conscious when it comes to cheese sticks, but because they taste good and they string well. But it appears that Target is no longer carrying that brand. There wasn't even an empty spot for it on the shelf. Instead I went with the Target brand because it was the cheapest, so their plan worked. I haven't tried it yet but hopefully it meets my requirements of taste and stringiness.


Tonight after dinner I nearly finished my second reflective journal entry. I went on a bit of a rant about bureaucracies and whether they should exist in libraries. I'll probably have to go back and trim it down a bit but for tonight I counted it as progress. It would be great if I could finish the entry off tomorrow and finish up a third one by the end of the week. That would put me ahead of schedule (while still technically being behind schedule because I didn't do the writing throughout the semester).

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