Nov. 9th, 2004

Stuff

Nov. 9th, 2004 07:14 am
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The good news is, the baby slept much better last night. She got up only once during the night, at 3:40 a.m., took some medicine, cuddled for a moment, and went right back to sleep when I put her down.

The bad news is, Mommy had trouble getting back to sleep after that - probably waiting for the other shoe to drop. I just dozed from that point out, so I've had about two hours less sleep than I really needed, and two days of this are starting to catch up with me.

Other good news - my report card comments are done except for the "next steps" ones, which I will do tonight. All the others are on my principal's desk, and I think they'll pass muster (I was being very careful to write them to specifications. I believe I've mentioned before that my principal is a stickler. She expects uniform style across the school for comments, which is fine by me since she told us exactly what she wanted.) I've confirmed with my brother that he is in fact coming to the Remembrance Day ceremony, wearing dress uniform and ready to play The Last Post and Reveille (which he plays much better than he spells - you'd think the brother of a French teacher could get one word right!) He's also going to talk a bit about his peacekeeping tour in Bosnia. I'm very happy with all this. I was a bit afraid that he'd back out at the last minute or something, since the last time we talked I was rather critical of a few things in his life.

My Developmental Reading Assessments are not much nearer to done than they were yesterday, but I effectively have until Monday to finish those and my reports, and I should be able to manage it. We're going to game it up on Friday, though, in preparation for the thrice-annual Report Card Race for the rest of the weekend.
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1) Photocopier repair is an essential facet of the job.

2) Double-siding photocopies is a waste of time and effort. For every perfect double-sided copy, you will throw out at least one sheet that got caught in the photocopier and waste one minute digging said sheet out of the innards of the machine. Net result is negative on both time and paper conservation.

3) When you think a manual hasn't been sent from the publisher, check with the teacher of the split-grade class. He may have only eight grade 5's, but the chances are good that he absconded with the teachers' manual that is supposed to work for both grade 5 classes.

4) Skip the lessons which require materials that are only available in the teacher's manual you haven't got. Making up your own from scratch is NOT WORTH IT.

That's my rant for the morning. THe bell just rang.

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