Today we had the awards assembly at school. This has been preceded by about two weeks of preparation which included:
- checking lots of papers and entering grades (because of procrastination a big-ish pile had grown)
- writing comments for 78 students about their writing
- parent conferences for three days
- figuring out who was eligible for which awards (attendance, honor roll, citizenship, most improved)
- revising the comments after the principal read them
- looking at each kid's report card on the computer to see if anyone had a standard that we'd missed
- sending out the invites to the parents for the awards assembly
- typing and printing the awards certificates
- re-printing the awards certificates after messing up about half of them because the printer had some type of heart attack
- staying after school and using the printer in the computer lab to print report cards because my printer has officially ceased acknowledging my computer
- signing all the report cards and the awards certificates
- stuffing report card envelopes (very carefully--twice in my career I've mixed up kid's cards and it isn't good)
- go to assembly, read all names correctly
- have mom stop you in the hall and ask why her kid didn't get his award when she received the invitation
- go to classroom and look at list and realize you overlooked printing his award--arrrrgghh
- give him a tissue to dry his tears
- print off reward in co-worker's room
- include certificate to Carl's Jr in his report card to make ammends
- send everyone home with report cards
- rush off to graduate class
- come home and collapse
But, now that the end-of-the-trimester-circus is completed, all I need to do this week is study, do the take-home part, and go next Wednesday and be FABULOUS!!! Or at least average.
No comments:
Post a Comment