Let's go fly a kite, up where the air is right

I am thinking about "Mary Poppins" and the (finally) healthy attitude to work in the last scene. The last scene, if you don't remember, has all the bank managers out flying kites and they rehire Mr. George Banks (the father who hired Mary Poppins for their nanny). Actually, this might be the second to last scene, because I can't remember if the tearful farewell to Mary Poppins is before or after that scene.

I read "Ask Liz Ryan" on a yahoogroup. It is a bbs with advice about most things, but particularly about work, getting hired, and preparing resumes. The article that has me musing today was about asking about the balance of work and life right up front in the interview.

I am most of the way done with my biology stuff. I will be meeting with my trainer (biology trainer) on Saturday and we will go over it and make sure that it is on target. I don't have any other classes to teach, so I can start with the biology stuff once there is a class available to teach.

I really need to arrange a method for Emily to fall asleep (at home, with T) while I am teaching. That is the only issue with my job right now. The rest is fairly perfect.

Kindergarten is coming up. The orientation(s) will be held on May 15th and 16th. We are waiting to hear about our time slot. The kindergarten teachers take the children and give them a 45-minute assessment, while the parents fill out paperwork and hear about things like the bus schedule, the sickness policy, and other information that also comes home in the handbook.

Gossip is that there are usually at least a few English learners (Children who have never spoken English before) in every class. In kindergarten,  as far as I understand these students don't do any expressly English as a Second Language activities, they are just subjected to full immersion in their classrooms.

Learning and my child

Emily wants to start a regular program of Spanish instruction. She wants to go to *my* Spanish class, because it is advanced. Since we cover topics such as how to ask for pornography in a video store, it's not appropriate for minors. But I have promised to select Spanish words that she doesn't know and teach them to her.

And, yes, she really doesn't want her babysitter to teach her via the full immersion method. The problem (as she sees it) is that words that are most frequently used are repeated frequently in the immersion method. She doesn't want to learn any words that she already knows. Sigh.