After class, I was going to Target and then Costco. I was looking for more Milk-Bone pill pockets at their sale price. When I was there the other day, while the sale sign was up, Buy 3 get one free, there was still only one package left on the shelf. The sale sign was down, and there was only one package left on the shelf.
I went looking for a new battery-powered facial brush. While I like it for my face, I need it to clean my left foot. I can't reach it otherwise. My older one stopped working. I bought new batteries, but that didn't help.
I then went to check if the Hershey's milk chocolate covered almonds were still on sale. I never have enough of those. They were I bought three more packages.
I went looking for vegetables in the produce aisle. There were none except for salad greens, potatoes, and onions. I have bought fruit at Target before but never checked out their vegetables. Live and learn.
While wandering up and down the aisles searching for veggies, I came across a chicken pot pie in the frozen section. Love chicken pot pies. I grabbed that and saw some other frozen dinners. They sounded delicious. I checked the sodium count; I always had to do that for Mike. He couldn't tolerate anything higher than 8% because of his Meniere's. This had 26% sodium. Well, Mike would not be joining me for dinner. When I cook, I add zero salt to anything, so this probably won't be too bad for me. I told Yvette that I bought some frozen dinners. She commented that Mike would be turning over in his grave at the thought of my eating prepared frozen food. Oh, right. He's not in his grave yet. That's scheduled for February 15, 2020.
Since I had the frozen food on me, I went home directly and didn't stop at Costco. When I got home, I did some work on the blog, showered, and headed out to school. I put on the new scent. I'll use it until I run out. I was a little concerned that it may be too intense for young children's noses. (I got no complaints.)
Scott arrived shortly after I did. He would screw down the subflooring in the guest room right through the carpet with this system John Zimmerman let me know about. Scott told me that the system was working. Thank you, John Zim, for doing the research and letting me know. I thought I had ordered 2000 screws. I confused the product number with the number of screws in the package, which was 250. Twenty-five dollars for 250 screws is still better than $11 for 50. I ordered two more boxes. Scott may also use this method to screw down the subflooring on the lanai, which is also over Yvette's house.
When I arrived at Mrs. D's class, R. immediately asked if I would work with her. I took her first. Mrs. D. told me the other day that she was starting to read. I told her to bring a book. Wow! She is off and running.
Next, I worked with B. He got 55% on last week's spelling test. This doesn't sound good, but it is a spectacular improvement for him. While we worked on this week's spelling words, I calibrated his score on last week's test by comparing the number of letters in the words versus the number of letters he got correct and in the correct sequence. His score by this method was 81%. Because I was somewhat distracted by calculating his score while I was trying to give him the words and guide him at the same time, he took off and did the work himself. Wow!
Before we had started, I asked him to identify the pattern for the spelling test. He saw -ce and -ge and the ends of words. I think the teacher probably pointed that out when she introduced the words that morning. While he is good at recognizing patterns, he is not good at remembering them when spelling the words. He left out the c in place and in another word. He tried to spell the /s/ sound as ec instead of ce. But, all in all, he continues to improve. It's just a long haul.
After that, I worked with D., who has been having behavioral issues. I asked him how his day went. He said, well. He doesn't feel like a ghost anymore. I checked this with Mrs. D. She said she had to go one on one with him about the need for him to wear shoes when he went out on the playground. Mainlanders must think this is weird. Why would anyone be without shoes? It's Hawaii. These kids run around without shoes all the time. They often walk around in class without shoes, no problem. I have seen a teacher walk around without shoes in the classroom. When they do wear shoes, they are often just 'slippers,' know in the rest of the world as flip-flops. But she said the rest of the day had gone well. He hadn't made peculiar noises during class or done anything outrageous. Maybe he did do a 1800. Wouldn't that be great?
Next, I worked with N., continuing our work on comprehension. He brought out a P level book without my having made an issue about it. However, that book was much too easy. I have no idea why it was ranked that high. It may have been because of the topic, which was on discerning when things are dead or alive.
He went in and got another book. While he was good at understanding relationships between sentences, he still has problems inferring the correct pronunciations of familiar words and inferring possible meanings of unfamiliar ones.
Then I went to work with the children in Mrs. B.'s class. I. had passed me while I was working with the children in Mrs. D.'s class and asked if I was going to work with him. He came right out with a book he wanted to work on. He is still struggling, and I don't really know why he is making so little progress.
The class had a sub today, and he was playing a game with the children while I was working with I. Despite the joyous noises coming from the classroom, I. focused and continued working. I finally asked him if he wanted to go back into the room. He said yes.
D. saw I. come back in and approached the door to work with me. I asked him if he preferred to stay in the room. He said yes. I told him to enjoy himself.
I walked across the atrium to the other side of the octagon to Mrs. L.'s room. I had promised to work with D. in her room. I had worked with him two summers ago but hadn't seen him since. I was planning to work with him after school, but there was a change in his circumstances recently, and he is no longer staying after school.
He came out with a high first-grade book. He read pretty well but showed he had some problems decoding longer words. I did some work with him on that. School came to an end. I spoke to Mrs. L. She agreed he had some problems decoding longer words. Also, he had comprehension problems and, most importantly, problems paying attention. She said when he focused, he could do pretty well. I told her his difficulties with attention were her problems. However, I will try to do something about his attention problems. The poor kid is squirmy. He has had a lot of family problems to deal with. Hopefully, I can help him. When he was working one-on-one, his focus was good.
Scott worked on the floor until after 6 pm. Then he turned his attention to my running toilet. I just had the insides replaced about a month ago, and the toilet was running again. Scott and I both believed there were probably some deposits on the surface of the inside of the tank that interfere with the seal, causing the toilet to leak and run. He discovered that some part of the mechanism rotated when he checked it, making the chain shorter, making it run intermittently. The short term solution was to pick up the tank cover after flushing and turn the part slightly clockwise.
I wasn't hungry at dinner time. I just prepared my limeade and pills. I finally did eat two slices of pizza at 8:30 pm. Oh, well. So much for my good intentions.
I watched more of "The Good Place." Actually, I am finding it interesting.
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