So my week started on Sunday. A week ago I got the notes for a power point for a group project. the other girl just didn't have time to complete it. She just had a new baby so out lining was all she could get done. I had a feeling this would happen so I had planned on doing the PP. Well I really wanted to get it done before this week so Sunday I sat down looked at the notes. Well the whole chapter was only 15 pages long, the PP outline was 15 slides long with some that needed split. I thought a PP was only an outline, for our purpose. So I cut and got it down to 12 slides, put some graphics in all was sunny and e-mailed it off to the rest of my group. Went to bed feeling so accompished. I got up Monday morning went to volunteer, finished the required reading for one class, things are looking good!! Sat down to check my e-mail from school. What??? you can't open the PP....or if you can open it is is only letters and numbers!!! thankfully I am married to someone who can fix my errors easily...so I e-mailed it off to him in St. Louis, he fixed it and mailed it back to me this morning. So total stress!! it took a whole evening to complete this and make it look how I wanted. Then! I opened the text book I just got for Jeremy's class. I got it off half.com....when I was taking it out of the package...this tape was stuck to the inside of the envelope....what is this black duct tape....Now I'll tell you for a fact duct tape CAN fix just about anything...but why is it on the book?? so as I pull it out of the package the black trim is being revieled on the book...its an Instructors Edition!!! I just spent 60+$ on a book for jeremy to use and it's not the text book!!! So I e-mailed the guy and requested my money back, he did not sell what he said he had, his "plan" was to cover anything that said "instructor edition" with black duct tape, including the isbn number....like I wouldn't notice?? Anyway jeremy is going to have to use this book utnil we can find out if it is the correct page numbers and whatnot. If not then I have to find him a new book. But can you believe it?? that's totally freaking nutters!
So I went to bed last night stressed about the PP, upest about the book, and the alarm rang too early this morning. Off to school go the kids, off to work I go...and it's art day again....Only EVEN better! we have a sub for our classroom teacher...he's tought special ed, he's subbed in kindergarten, he's woked in life skills...but this was his FIRST time in Developmental kindergarten...and I'm sure his last! YOu need to have high energy for kindergarten, but you need to be very calm for kids with autism...they feed off your energy....if you have too much energy....well we're fucked. Pretty much that was how it was, the kids were so excited and spun up because of his great and happy attitude, control was lost. Art class was challanging again, it would be nice if the teacher could attend a developmental class and see where these kids are at, so that she could see the difficulties these kids go through in the regular classroom. and understand that when we have to paint/draw the line or picture it is no longer their project but ours....giving them guidance and say do this...then letting them is their understanding of what is going on. But when Jimmy can't draw a zig zag but can make and curvy line...thats his zig zag. Sure I can hand over hand help him make a zig zag but then it is my project. Everything has to be just so, and its not with these kids. After art, we the aids over road the sub and took the kids to the playground! they were all over playing having a good time, then back to the classroom for math, music, lunch and GO HOME...thats my favorite 40 minutes of the day! LOL kids were out of control by the time we went to lunch one had a melt down because he did not want fruit on his tray...it took a few minutes to figure out what the problem was, then 2 began slamming each other with milk cartons...and I would correct them to get but they just kept going. finally I yelled at them both...seriously yelled "stop!! that is enough playing" the lunch lady and the other aid got a good laugh that I blew my cool for the first time. Just the prefect time, with the principal and parents in the lunch room for a "special" day lunch....never mind I had already made a little girl cry because she wanted to sit at the "special" table with the principal. So rather than eating she was sitting there crying. At 12:00 I totally bolted out the door!
So what else can go wrong...one of the girls in my group said who's doing the Word Doc for the message board....Wait what word..isn't it "or" not and in the project discription....well shoot there is no PP in the project discription...So I e-mailed the teacher...she e-mailed back and said "no here is the guidlines" but then called....and said wait don't panic...thankfully she is accepting our PP instead of a word doc, because a PP is in the grading outline...she had not taken it out. But I did have to e-mail her the PP so she could review it. thankfully we are all good, I do need to add a bib to the PP, but other than that she said it looked good!! Thank goodness!
Now what can go wrong tomorrow....should I really ask that question or just go to bed?
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