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Mar. 30th, 2014 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThere's a book fair at school this coming week, Usborne rather than Scholastic. Usborne is providing someone to work the cash register during the day, so the time that's in question is Thursday evening during the Family Fun Night (there will be a movie in the cafeteria and bowling in the gym). Since I will be at the school then anyway, I will likely work that time. Of course, there's an event at the school Wednesday evening-- the announcement of the new principal. Having the book fair open then might be nice. That will bring a lot of people into the school who wouldn't otherwise come in.
The librarian says I'm welcome to help out during set up Monday morning (she won't be there because Mondays she works at a different school) and any time during the book fair hours for the rest of the week. I have no idea what I'd be doing, and I'm by no means sure I want to be at the school for hours on end.
I can't help out on Friday because I've volunteered for the Disabilities Awareness Workshop. I'll be working the hearing and speech station. I've got some files to read to prepare for that, but I've been putting them off. The workshop is just for fourth graders (I think the first year they had the fifth graders too. That was a little crazy busy), so Cordelia's class won't be involved. This is my third year volunteering for it and the third year the school has had the event. The point of the whole thing is to try to make the kids think about what having various types of disabilities is like. I'm not sure how well it works. The kids tend to treat the whole thing as a series of games.
The workshop isn't a required part of the curriculum. The district has the materials and makes them available to any school that can organize the volunteers to run the workshop. The first couple of years, the music teacher organized everything, but there seems to be a parent volunteer doing the job this year. Hopefully this is enough of a tradition to survive the transition to the new school next year.
The librarian says I'm welcome to help out during set up Monday morning (she won't be there because Mondays she works at a different school) and any time during the book fair hours for the rest of the week. I have no idea what I'd be doing, and I'm by no means sure I want to be at the school for hours on end.
I can't help out on Friday because I've volunteered for the Disabilities Awareness Workshop. I'll be working the hearing and speech station. I've got some files to read to prepare for that, but I've been putting them off. The workshop is just for fourth graders (I think the first year they had the fifth graders too. That was a little crazy busy), so Cordelia's class won't be involved. This is my third year volunteering for it and the third year the school has had the event. The point of the whole thing is to try to make the kids think about what having various types of disabilities is like. I'm not sure how well it works. The kids tend to treat the whole thing as a series of games.
The workshop isn't a required part of the curriculum. The district has the materials and makes them available to any school that can organize the volunteers to run the workshop. The first couple of years, the music teacher organized everything, but there seems to be a parent volunteer doing the job this year. Hopefully this is enough of a tradition to survive the transition to the new school next year.
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Date: 2014-03-31 06:13 am (UTC)I also remember a similar day when we put on beer goggles and drove simulated cars after various amounts of "alcohol" as a game. And, now as an adult who has drunk before, I realize how ridiculous it was, anyway.
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Date: 2014-03-31 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 06:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, and likewise with the beer goggles. I wish they'd do it again as you get a bit older. I don't remember much from 4th grade at all, but once you hit high school I start remembering more.