It's been two full-on days at school as usual. The days pretty much flow into each other and sometimes it just is hard to remember all that happened. It seems that lately it's been more about setting up routines and spending so much time disciplining - I almost feel like I'm a mother having to teach these children how to sit still and be quiet and listen and focus and get their work done, blah blah blah. :-) I feel like I am (mostly) able to handle my four challenge children a little better each day. James has not had a meltdown in ages - I seem to be able to talk with him and help him to do what he needs to do. Mia sometimes still has crying fits when her mother brings her to school (I wish she would bring her on time - she is late almost every day), but Mia is having less meltdowns in the classroom. Baylee is still driving me crazy as is Brayden - those two I am working on. Baylee just keeps pushing it (I asked his mother to come and talk with me - via Baylee's older brother - and the message I got back was that she was in the car and didn't have time to come and talk with me, so that tells you something, eh?) and so he loses stars and then his playtime - I think with him it's just going to be a matter of staying on top of him and not letting up. Brayden has so many issues, but I do like him, so that's a plus. Because he has trouble focusing and tends to talk (and bother) whoever he chooses to sit beside, I have now put down a little mat on the carpet for him to sit on all the time (and it's right in front of me) and he has to sit next to Kayla W. who is the sweetest girl in my class.
I am reviewing and changing my class schedule again - it always seems that I need to add something and now it's science. I don't know how I am supposed to fit in language, math, science, P.E., music, etc. etc. - and all in kindergarten. I wonder if Australia has ever checked out the education system in Canada - with children only going half a day to kindergarten (although I did hear before we left Canada that there was talk of it becoming full days which I think is crazy). Terri-Ann, now that I have taught children in full-day kindergarten, I totally understand why you kept Colin home every Wednesday for a while - for some children, it's so tiring. So, tonight, I changed my class schedule to include Science - of course, something else has to go, but hey, what do the higher ups care about consistency for little five year olds.
Census stuff has been keeping Dad very busy in the past two days. He has been in constant contact with his collectors as well as with his supervisor. This is the busiest week to date for his collectors - and today he found out that all but two of his collectors are completely done their routes which really pleased Dad. His other two collectors are still working hard and should be done in time (by Sunday night). Dad is finding this working stuff tiring - he finds by Thursday, he's very weary. He also was back to Meals on Wheels today (it went fine) and then went to SES tonight. Tonight's training was divided into two: the first half was about parking and traffic control which the SES is doing for the Whale Festival this Saturday. Dad will not be able to help out with this task, though, as he will be still busy with making sure his final two collectors complete their routes - he said that he might have to go and 'help' them move along. The second half of the night was spent doing an exercise on briefing - getting and giving them as in a search exercise. The idea was to be able to get the important info from a briefing and also to be able to give a briefing that gives pertinent info.
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