September 11, 2015

Today was busy. There was a storm last night and the power went out at school. Normally that pops a breaker in the computer lab and a row of computers won't turn on. That didn't happen this time but two of the printers in the building stopped working. And they were the exact same type of printer, too. It may have had nothing to do with the storm but it is a pretty odd coincidence.

I looked into the printer thing before school started and then I worked on finishing the worksheet I started for one of the second grade teachers yesterday. In the middle of that one of the resource teachers came to me with two ideas she had for worksheets, so I added those to my list.

After a couple classes in the lab I finished the second grade teacher's worksheet and went down to give her a copy. I came in right as they were starting to try and get on the laptops in their room. That always seems to be an chore. For every grade level actually, not just second grade. So I stuck around and helped all of the kids get on.

When I got back to the lab I had an email from one of the office ladies and when I went to talk to her I found out she wanted to copy some clip art from a few PDFs but couldn't figure it out. I said I would mess with it so I went back to the lab and messed around until I figured it out. Or maybe I just remembered how to do it because it kind of felt familiar. Either way, I copied all the clip art she wanted and sent them to her in a Publisher document and all told her how she could do it in the future.

I worked on that while I ate lunch and then I started on the worksheets for the resource teacher. I think they both turned out pretty well and I managed to finish them before my two afternoon classes came in. One of those classes was fifth grade and in the middle of their time a bunch of third graders showed up. I vaguely remember talking to their teacher about kids coming down at some point but I can't remember why they were coming down, or how many there would be, or if we ever agreed on a time. Regardless, it definitely added a hectic feel to the environment of the lab.

With the small amount of time I had left at the end of the day I printed out my score sheets for MAP because that starts next week. I wasn't able to print out all of the seating charts but I can do that before school on Monday. I also need to cut scratch paper before Tuesday because that is when the first Math test is happening. I don't think I'm going to make it through the school year with the paper I have left for scratch paper. The classes are going to have to start providing their own.

When I got home I didn't do anything but after dinner I watched some DVRed stuff and started working on a new piece of sheet music for my group presentation. The one I started yesterday was mainly just to mess around and I had a different idea in my head today so I started a new one. I heard back from my partner and he was on board with the new music library I found so that is going to be the one we do our presentation over. Which is good because I want to see how the sheet music presentation comes together.

Now I'm going to go to bed so I can wake up and read textbooks and articles. I probably won't do that all day tomorrow but it would be nice to get it done so I didn't have to worry about it on Sunday.