On Tuesday mornings, I go into Cars' class to do Reading Naturally with the few kids who are reading at 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade levels. I am to do it in the pod area of the kindergarten classes but the last few weeks, the tables are full with specialists teaching the kids, other parents doing reading Reading Naturally too or crafts. I had been doing it at the little "Listening Desk" but the other full-day K teacher tends to send a few of her kids out there to put their heads down fairly often so, as of today, I am no longer allowed to use that desk. So, now this volunteer time has been moved to Monday afternoons and hopefully I will be able to find a free area.

I am still doing the reading rotation groups on Tuesdays later in the morning. Basically I just watch the kids do Headsprout on the computers. They are fairly self-sufficient though and the biggest help I give them is to untangle their headphones.

I am looking forward to next year and I hope to be able to spend more time in the classrooms or just at the school volunteering. They are always short volunteers in the health room (tending to scraped knees and bumped heads during recess) and for lunch servers although I think I might pass on this. I want to spend more time in the classrooms than I have in the past.

I think I might take a break from Art Start too...or maybe not. I really do enjoy the art work that the kids produce. Maybe I will just the the Art Gallery night work?

And why am I fretting about this today? There is still another 4 weeks left of THIS school year!!