Over?!

The school year is over but not really. Diana and I wound up doing the CELDT testing for CC and it sucked ass trying to get everything scheduled in four, count them four, days all the while trying to do the rest of the end of the year crap. My kids wound up with a sub yesterday and I spoke to them for all of 55 minutes today-the rest of the time they watched movies. Poor things, but the way they've behaved this year, they really didn't deserve more than that.

Now that the CELDT is scheduled, I can finish up the stuff I had left to do like copy plan and grade books, clean room, box up crap, throw crap away, organize for next year, etc. All by 1:45 pm tomorrow which is my check out time. Yeah, not going to happen...

Good times

Got back a while ago from the retirement party we had for Jane, Linda, Maxine and Norma. To quote Napoleon Dynamite, "LUCKY!" So happy for them, and a tad bit jealous too, LOL!

I go pick up the truck tomorrow. So glad about that because Tim Holtz's class is Sunday and I may need my wheels to get there.

Last night Lupita and I went to the Oasis for Jamie Waters' class. We had the best time, Lupita even won something in the drawing that brat! Anyway, an order of CatsLifePress stamps showed up and I was in heaven. Yep, 'one of each please' and they were mine. I'm hoping to find time to play tomorrow or Saturday (after I catch up my plan book).

Well, the report cards were done this morning, I finished the last of the comments while we watched an A&E movie about California Dreamers. It held the attention of the class for a while, at least long enough to let me do my thing. Done!

Just bummed that my Poppy stuff wasn't here to greet me when I got home. Maybe tomorrow. I can only hope.

Hoorah!

Almost done with the report cards (so they're late, hey, it's not my fault I was away for two days last week, no?). got a fab-o order from SU! today-2 new hostess sets, a couple of new sets, all of the new colors of ink/cardstock. Plus I got my hair did and we had Rocky's Pizza for din-din. Oh and the checkbook is balanced and all the bills are paid for the month :) Off to work on the report cards (hopefully to actually finish tonight).

One week down, two to go

Well, finally, after much dread and stress the week is over. My trainings went really well, thank goodness I only had to get to Fullerton in the am and not Newport Beach. I even got in some scrap time last night. So much to be said for having photos that go with the supplies you're toting around town. :)

And even more to cross out

Hooray! Open House is officially over! So glad that I can say that now. I hate, hate Open House because usually it's a lot of prep and pushing the kids to get stuff ready and then not even half of the parents come. Not tonight. I had 25 of 30 students show up with their parents. I have to say that that's a record. I feel kind of bad that we didn't do more, but hey, how was I supposed to know?

The training went great today too. We met at a house/office set up that Christina has. I managed to get there a half hour early so I stopped at Starbucks for a Chai and headed on over. We finished with our session a bit after 2 pm so I was back here about 2:40. I had time to stop by the Credit Union to make a deposit and then hung out at the house until about 4:00. Then off to school to set up Jim for tomorrow and then at 5:30 it was on. NO ONE came into the room until about 5:50~I have to admit, I was getting pissed! Then I wasn't alone until about 6:45 when they rang the bells. A second grade mom came in to see the missions and I didn't have the heart to tell her to go, LOL!

Well, that's officially done. The list is shortening by the day. This weekend I'm off to work on report cards and to finish up the SST paperwork for the Monday meeting at 3, then to call parents about the Awards assembly on Tuesday. I didn't have the energy to stay after Open House and choose the awards. It'll wait until Saturday or Sunday.

Crossing things off!

Yeah, two more things off the major to do list. I managed to attend both the SSC and ELD cohort meetings this evening. Even made a stop at Staples and Starbucks, plus a trip to Target to get mom the new McCartney CD. Go me. Just tomorrow~plans, Open House prep, Staff meeting, report card beginnings...

Slowly but surely

Well, thankfully, a few things can come off the list of to-do's.

I got through the parent visit on Friday, they came in right after I did my modeling on writing the first paragraph of the mission reports, just came in to see me walking around making sure everyone was getting started. G's mom came to the door first, was skeptical when I sent her to find Anna and the rest of the group. Ugh, so glad I won't have to see that woman anymore in a few days.

Kristin's party went great. We had planned for a lot of people so I kept everything pretty simple, we got through it all quickly. I was able to head to the Oasis for a fix and then stopped by the Onion for dinner for Enrique and I since mom and dad were still at the car show on Euclid.

Worked on my green folders yesterday at school for about 3 hours. Got them done, hung up the same assignment on the bulletin boards for Open House. With the "truthful ads" we did for health, the walls are officially half way done.

Managed to get to the CELDT training alive. Driving through Pomona is quite the adventure these days, managed to live to tell about it. Ran a few errands. Going to grade a few tests to input grades tomorrow during the DWA test. Gotta love free time for me during those horrible exams.

Oh, and the best news I got all day. The training Thursday/Friday is no longer in Newport, it's just down the road a ways in Fullerton. I'll hopefully be able to get there in time if I leave the house about 7 am. We'll have to see. Also, getting to Open House on time should be doable as well-hopefully 2 1/2 hours is enough time to travel a normally 20 minute trip, ugh.

Out for now. Hopefully coming back to erase more of my to-dos.