February 24, 2015

Today. Things happened. I helped out with literacy centers in both kindergarten classes this morning. My groups had to write about and then draw something they treasure. They have apparently been talking about the word 'treasure' and how in this context it doesn't mean gold or jewels or some other pirate treasure, but some of them obviously haven't picked up on the concept. I was running out of ways to explain it. Only a couple kids ended up going with something that I would deem worthy of being treasured, but they did all manage to come up with something that could arguably be treasured, even if only superficially.

I started working on the yearbook today. We had another yearbook meeting with the fifth and sixth graders, this one to show them the website they would be using to create the yearbook, as well as tell them what grade they were assigned to so they could start talking to those teachers and figuring out when they could come take pictures. I uploaded all of the school portraits and started figuring out the layouts. The sixth grade class currently has twenty-six kids which really screws things up. Their pictures are going to have to be smaller than all the other classes just so I can fit them and their teacher on the same page. We may also only have one page for staff portraits so those are also going to be tiny.

This afternoon I had both kindergarten classes and one third grade class in the lab. That was all pretty uneventful.

After work I went and bought a Powerball ticket and then went over to the old house to get some stuff. I remembered as I got to the door that I let my mom borrow my house key yesterday and she never gave it back. When I got home and told her this she said it was on the counter and acted like I somehow knew that even though she never told me. And it wasn't on the counter. The key from the door was there (because she took that out yesterday) but my key was not. It was nowhere to be found. So that is kind of annoying. I told her it all seemed like a very passive aggressive way to kick me out of the house but several months too late.

Tonight I finished reading one of the textbook chapters I have to read this week. That leave one to go, along with the PDFs. So much reading. I also still need to write discussion posts and figure out the group assignment that is starting this week. I'm still not entirely sure what I am supposed to be doing. All I know is that world domination is not our need, which is still disappointing because not only would have have been fun, it would have also been a lot easier.

Now I'm going to go to bed, much like I do at the end of most of my entries, because I'm tired.