Last night was one of the best
nights of sleep I have had in a really long time. It wasn't one of
those where I completely pass out and it seems like I don't move an
inch until I wake up in the morning feeling completely rested. Those
are great nights. Last night I woke up at least a few times to go to
the bathroom because that's what being hydrated gets you, but the
time seemed to drag on forever, which sucks most of the time but at
night it is the best.
This morning one of the first grade
classes was going to take their Math MAP test. They should have
taken it last week but their first test was canceled when the
internet was cutting in and out. After logging into all the
computers I was just finishing logging into the test on the first row
of computers when the power blinked off. Just long enough to ruin
all of my work. Although I'm better off than the sixth grader who
was just about to save his story. Hopefully he didn't lose too much.
After turning all the computers back
on, except the front row, I headed down to help out with literacy
centers in kindergarten, stopping off in the office on the way to
have the custodian flip the breaker that popped with the power blink
so I could turn on the front row of computers when I got back. That
was a really long sentence. Fifty-seven words. Moving on.
Six of the kindergarteners were out
sick today. With that news I wanted to turn around and leave
immediately, but I didn't. My group was listening to Miss
Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of
Kindergarten because tomorrow is
the 100th
day of school. After the story they had to say what they would bring
to celebrate and then draw one hundred of them. At one point I
pointed at one of the kids' paper and his wet pencil touched me. He
spent the whole time coughing and sneezing and wiping his nose with
his hands. I had to send him to go wash his hands after he wiped his
nose along his arm and it left a snail trail. The kid next to me was
also coughing the whole time and he told me that he was the only
member of his family that hadn't been sick yet. So it will be a
miracle if I'm not sick tomorrow.
Despite my inevitable illness at the
hands of these kindergarteners, it was worth it because one of them
asked me if turtles lived with the dinosaurs (because he picked
dinosaurs to draw but quickly discovered it was much easier to draw
turtles). Before I could respond one of the other boys, the one with
the snail trail, said “No, turtles live in sewers.” The third
boy just shook his head and said “Not the Ninja Turtles.”
When I got back to the lab I logged
into all the computer for the second time and then all of the tests.
Then I set them all up, just in time for the first graders. A whole
bunch of them didn't make it through the test and on top of that,
three or four of them were sick. It'll be interesting to see if we
can get them all tested by the end of the week.
When I was setting that test up a
lady stopped by the lab to schedule a time for the ACT Aspire test,
or something like that. There was one last semester and parents have
to decide if they want their kids to take it. Last time there were
five or six kids maybe. All of the times either conflicted with the
State Assessment window of the next MAP window so I tried to pick a
time in between. I spoke with the principal about it later and she
said she would see if there was a way out of it because she agreed it
was just way too much testing. At the very least I suggested she
urge parents not to sign their kids up because the kids should be
focusing on the State Assessment and the MAP test because those
actually count for something.
This afternoon I had both
kindergarten classes and one of the third grade classes in the lab.
Nothing too exciting.
With all my free time throughout the
day I nearly finished updating my spreadsheets. I only have sixth
grade left, not counting all the kids who I don't have final scores
yet for. Hopefully soon I'll be able to print off the final reports
but I don't think there is a single class yet who has everyone
completely done with no tests to be deleted.
After work I got my car washed and
bought a Powerball ticket. For weeks now the only clean part on my
car was a small area underneath my door where my jeans hit when I get
in and out. The other day it sprinkled just enough to make my car
look even worse and I couldn't take it anymore. I still need to
clean the inside of the windows but it looks so much better.
I stopped by the old house not only
to look for my TV stand screws, but also because I wanted to read a
textbook without any distractions. I looked almost everywhere for
the screws but couldn't find them. I even looked through the stuff I
put in the hall closet that I had completely forgotten about. I left
the closet propped open so I don't forget that stuff again. While
taking a small breather from reading the textbook my mind wandered
back to the screws. I thought maybe they ended up with my tools and
I made a mental note to check in the garage when I got home and look
through my tool bag and router table. But then I pictured my tools
being downstairs at the old house and how I had put a bunch of random
crap in a box that was out in the living room. I had overlooked it
before because on top there was a box of dust masks and a pair of
noise-canceling headphones. Well, I went out there, dug through the
box, and found a bag of random screws that looked like the ones that
came with my wall mount. There were also four black screws (all the
rest were silver) that looked promising. And they looked that way
for a reason because they ended up being the correct screws.
I finished a chapter in my textbook
before heading back to the new house for dinner. After dinner I
watched TV and wrote my discussion post for the week. It was set up
like it was at the beginning of last semester where you can't see
anyone else's post until you submit one. It would be nice if that
would change because it is easier to write when you have an idea of
what other people are saying. I also felt like my post sucked after
glancing at some of the other posts. In the topic, which was about
our music collections, the professor asked us to cite examples when
talking about different collections being organized the same way. I
talked about examples but other people quoted the textbook. I kind
of feel like I should quote the textbook now. Maybe in my responses
to other people. I need to post two responses but I didn't want to
read through all the posts tonight so I'll do that tomorrow.
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