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Feb. 8th, 2013 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe Chinese class Cordelia was hoping to take was canceled again. This time, they only had two kids sign up. I think the problem is that they keep trying to run it as a long class, lasting many months and costing a lot. A class lasting from the start of February through the end of May is a big commitment. (Last fall, they tried to get kids to sign up for one lasting from October through May. That one was canceled, too.) I suspect that a two month class would get more takers. Chopping it up into two month segments isn't ideal for language learning, but I don't know how much the kids will really learn in an hour a week anyway.
Wednesday, after school, Cordelia and one of her friends auditioned for the school variety show (they used to call it a talent show but have change it this year). They plan to sing a Selena Gomez song. I've forgotten the title. Scott spent quite a while searching iTunes in hopes of finding a version with just the instrumentals. The karaoke version didn't work because it has vocals in several places. I think he found something, but I'm not sure.
We'll have to get the girls together a few times so that they can practice. The other girl's family also has transportation issues, so it will require some creativity. I'll probably have to overcome my aversion to making phone calls in order to set things up. Fortunately, this family speaks excellent English (I think they're from Pakistan, but I'm not absolutely certain), so phone calls are feasible.
Yesterday was the PTO's Winter Carnival. It started at six, so I scrambled to get myself fed before that. Scott got food on his way home from work. Cordelia bought pizza at the carnival (we expected hot dogs, but they didn't have any. They didn't have any baked goods or snacks for sale, either, apart from cotton candy, popcorn and snow cones). We contributed a box of cookies to the cake walk, and I volunteered for two half hour shifts running games.
I ran dig for gold from 6:30-7:00. That's pretty straightforward, but the game had changed since I last ran it. Before, there was a set time limit for how long the kids were allowed to search through the sunflower seeds for pennies. This time, it was up to my judgment. I tried to make sure the kids found at least one penny. Most of the kids preferred the consolation prizes to the winner's prizes on this one, so I started offering both bins to those who found enough pennies to win.
It was during my stint with dig for gold that the fire alarm went off for the first time. Rumor has it that one of the machines they were using, either the popcorn or the cotton candy, gave off smoke enough to set off the fire alarm. We all cleared out of the building. Fortunately, it hadn't started snowing yet. It was even kind of warm for February, somewhere in the 30s.
I ran bingo from 7:30-8:00. The fire alarm went off twice during that time, very close to the end. A lot of people simply went home when the alarm went off. Of the three kids who were playing bingo when the alarm went, only one came back. She was very disappointed not to be able to finish the game, but she gave up when the alarm went off again. We were in the library, and the alarm is really, really loud in there. I stayed through the alarm to help pack up the bingo set then went home. Scott and Cordelia were still just outside the door when I came out of the school, so we all walked home together.
We got a couple of inches of snow last night but nothing like what they were saying we might. I don't think we got nearly as much of an ice layer, either. The school preemptively canceled bagel Friday, just in case there was a snow day. The fifth graders are always struggling to raise enough funds to go to camp as it is. They can better afford a skipped week than a week of buying bagels that can't be sold.
Wednesday, after school, Cordelia and one of her friends auditioned for the school variety show (they used to call it a talent show but have change it this year). They plan to sing a Selena Gomez song. I've forgotten the title. Scott spent quite a while searching iTunes in hopes of finding a version with just the instrumentals. The karaoke version didn't work because it has vocals in several places. I think he found something, but I'm not sure.
We'll have to get the girls together a few times so that they can practice. The other girl's family also has transportation issues, so it will require some creativity. I'll probably have to overcome my aversion to making phone calls in order to set things up. Fortunately, this family speaks excellent English (I think they're from Pakistan, but I'm not absolutely certain), so phone calls are feasible.
Yesterday was the PTO's Winter Carnival. It started at six, so I scrambled to get myself fed before that. Scott got food on his way home from work. Cordelia bought pizza at the carnival (we expected hot dogs, but they didn't have any. They didn't have any baked goods or snacks for sale, either, apart from cotton candy, popcorn and snow cones). We contributed a box of cookies to the cake walk, and I volunteered for two half hour shifts running games.
I ran dig for gold from 6:30-7:00. That's pretty straightforward, but the game had changed since I last ran it. Before, there was a set time limit for how long the kids were allowed to search through the sunflower seeds for pennies. This time, it was up to my judgment. I tried to make sure the kids found at least one penny. Most of the kids preferred the consolation prizes to the winner's prizes on this one, so I started offering both bins to those who found enough pennies to win.
It was during my stint with dig for gold that the fire alarm went off for the first time. Rumor has it that one of the machines they were using, either the popcorn or the cotton candy, gave off smoke enough to set off the fire alarm. We all cleared out of the building. Fortunately, it hadn't started snowing yet. It was even kind of warm for February, somewhere in the 30s.
I ran bingo from 7:30-8:00. The fire alarm went off twice during that time, very close to the end. A lot of people simply went home when the alarm went off. Of the three kids who were playing bingo when the alarm went, only one came back. She was very disappointed not to be able to finish the game, but she gave up when the alarm went off again. We were in the library, and the alarm is really, really loud in there. I stayed through the alarm to help pack up the bingo set then went home. Scott and Cordelia were still just outside the door when I came out of the school, so we all walked home together.
We got a couple of inches of snow last night but nothing like what they were saying we might. I don't think we got nearly as much of an ice layer, either. The school preemptively canceled bagel Friday, just in case there was a snow day. The fifth graders are always struggling to raise enough funds to go to camp as it is. They can better afford a skipped week than a week of buying bagels that can't be sold.
