petmoosie: (Default)
School is done. I am not going to worry much about it over the summer. Emily may need a push in reading and to learn her math facts, but I will let it happen, especially the reading, since she is interested in many books.


Garden is growing (corn). The lettuce is growing (black-seeded Simpson, there must be a sale). The peas are trying to give their last pods for the season. It will get hot again, but today and recently, it's been cool. I've had to water several times, since there has not been much rain lately.

Work is heating up for the summer. Some of the last of the old-style GRE courses. And some chemistry for MCAT. All good, of course. My bank account will be fuller than I have seen it in a long time.

[livejournal.com profile] mrmoosie and I are contemplating going to a Nationals baseball game next Tuesday. If we do, Emily and I will have to take the Metro and mrmoosie will have to drive.



petmoosie: (hometown)
The headline on a recent local paper, "County's minorities are now the majority". It says (based on census data? since all the comparisons are done to 2000?) that minorities make up 50.7% of the population. The greatest percentage *increases* are in Hispanic and Asian populations; the greatest absolute number of minorities is in the black population.

Just as an observation, I'm seeing more and more Asian kindergarten students with younger siblings. More than I saw two years ago.

The lunchroom has rotated some of the tables, which allows me to see more students at once. There are definitely students of just about every shade of skin tone in the lunchroom. However, with the long winter, some who would normally look more brown are looking more gray. It might also be the lighting in the lunchroom or the clothes colors they are wearing.

I sat behind a family at church on Ash Wednesday that were more Native American-looking than Hispanic, although they spoke Spanish.
petmoosie: (braids)
It was not a good day. The principal had two calls about students hurting other students. At least one of them, the hurtee had to go to the nurse's office. That was second grade and third.

I am hoping that the students are a bit more calm after the summer.
petmoosie: (nature)
Chips Olé again. Oh the smell!

Since it is Earth Day, the school tried an expanded recycling program for lunch-related trash. So the kindergarten children had to ask to figure out where their trash went. There was a speech about it, but ... it was a lot of information.

It will be tried again next Wednesday. I hope it will go a bit smoother with the memory of how it was to be done today in their minds. The older grades did better.

Good day

Mar. 18th, 2009 01:42 pm
petmoosie: (Emily)
The sun is finally out.
Emily doesn't need glasses. The test picked up some astigmatism, which will eventually need to be corrected, but it shouldn't be a problem now. It's mild, like T's, and astigmatism doesn't change over your lifespan (unlike near- and far-sightedness).  I brought Emily to school just in time to go to the lunchroom and be the lunch lady (1 of 3). Oh, the kids were full of beans!!! Just very bouncy, interfering with their neighbor, etc.

Last night's Spanish class was awful. I wasn't prepared and wasn't awake enough to follow the teacher. The teacher wasn't too upset with me, though. She was very glad to get some good essays from the rest of the class. I will have to get my essay emailed to her soon.
petmoosie: (braids)
It has now been 4 hours since I left the lunch room. I can still smell the lunch of the day (Chips Olé) on my clothes. Oh my. Those poor, poor children. The clothes just stink from the wafts from the ovens cooking reheating them.

And they have grape icies. Yuck. The worst part is if you actually save them for last, they melt and are harder and more dangerous to open. Fortunately most little kids will (ask us to) open them and eat them first thing, even if they are dessert. I did manage to drip one down the hair of a second-grader. Yeah, she was NOT happy.

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