Today was the parade and fall festival. I was supposed to get coffee travelers at the coffee place on the corner. Dave ended up leaving to get it for me, so that I could deal with the kids while he headed to school. He took all the signs that he was in charge of putting up, while I got the kids dressed, fed and ready to go. My one request was to take pictures, but I left early to get that done. Brandon had trouble with this request and subsequently became rude. We got some quick pictures, and then they were off. I waited around for the parade to start, and I got what I could. I only had my phone as I was planning to stay all day long and had only minimal equipment with me. Dave was somewhere on campus, but I didn’t know where he was exactly. He was setting up somewhere, but I texted him for help taking a class picture of Brandon’s class as I was standing behind Peyton’s. As they were standing around waiting to go back to class, Peyton reached over and touched Daniel’s costume, but it happened to be in his “front”. I looked at Peyton and told her that it was inappropriate to touch Daniel’s costume. Then, waterworks (#1) started. She just teared up, and she was very emotional and wouldn’t talk to me. Peyton’s teacher walked us all back to the class and asked if I could take a picture for her. I was sure that there would also be 20 other parents for our class, but I told her I would. Peyton’s sourface lasted throughout pictures, and she was playing hide and seek with the camera. I left her to go back and set up the blacktop area for the fall festival. I found Dave again, and we helped out through recess. Peyton came by to wave hi at recess, and right behind me, she was eating someone’s fruit loops. Later, I realized it was a fourth grader. G’s friend S, who thinks Peyton’s “cute”. She was hanging out sharing like the other big girls around there, but I told her it wasn’t okay to eat other people’s food. Waterworks #2 commenced. She walked away, and knew she was in trouble. We saw the classes come through for lunch, with the older kids through younger. Dave went to go get lunch for us at the grocery store. I asked for a salad, while he got Chinese food. He ended up walking there. After he’d gotten back, my mom / noon aide friend tapped me on the shoulder. She told me that Peyton was having some problems at lunch. A classmate accused her of eating her food. She didn’t know the full story, but she was crying, and Irene wanted me to help out. Ugh. Really?!? I went inside, and Peyton had fully recovered. She saw me coming and once again TEARS! She wasn’t even sitting next to the accuser! She was sitting next to Z and S. She started crying, and I asked her to open up her lunch to show me what she had eaten. She refused. I opened it for her, and found her entree untouched. The rest of her fruit and veggie were gone. She’s eaten other people’s food before because she said she was hungry. I told her she needed to eat two bites (big ones) of her food before I would leave. She continued to cry and sob. Like ugly crying. S was rubbing her back, telling her to eat her food like “your mom is telling you”, and telling her, “You shouldn’t eat other people’s food, you should wait for the (whole discarded food from what other kids don’t eat at hot lunch, like their milk, fruit, etc) basket to come around and eat that. Please, Peyton, just eat like your mom says!” I told her I’d go away if she ate her food. Reluctantly, she did, and it was over. I left but not before thanking S for being such a great friend to Peyton. I’m sure the accused’s mom is going to let me know ALL about it from her daughter. I’m more mad at Peyton about THAT, since it was one of the mom’s that’s all in her business. I went back about my business, and it was almost time for dismissal, since the youngest kids go back to class on short days after lunch and get dismissed within 10 minutes. I told Dave he was then in charge of kids since I was checking volunteers in at the booth all afternoon long. Brandon was able to come out early, since the kids were signed out early. I was quite busy, and I explained to Brandon his rudeness lost him tickets today. He also periodically came back to check in with me. We had 30 middle schoolers come up to me and check in. I assigned them all roles and filled up spots. Later, Dave ended up giving them to him since we had extra and we needed to dump them. Peyton played a few games, and ended up racking up a lot of stickers to earn 3 prizes. She got 3 out of 5 hoops around the witch’s hat. Brandon won one of the rounds of pumpkin walks. He said he never won before, and he brought back a medium sized pumpkin to show for it.
I did take a break to watch the magic show at 3 pm. Brandon had asked for a watch so he could keep track of time, but I told him Daddy would help find him to line him up. It was the same magician that had worked Dave’s holiday party two years ago, with his balloon-making wife. Dave had already walked up to him to talk to him, and he came back to show the kids a trick while we waited in line. I almost fell asleep watching the show it was so comfy to be inside and a bit darker. I was exhausted. After the 30 minute show, I went back to my booth. We then had high school kids come up asking for assignments. We needed them all to stay and clean up. At 4 pm, the event was over, and we all started to clean up. The kids’ behavior was 180 turned around. Both were helping in their own way, folding up chairs, picking up trash, and asking what they could do. They were working for a chance at a pumpkin. They were told helpers get to pick one. Brandon was helping me break down 6 foot tables, folding up chairs, and dumping out water from coolers. I had lots of kids coming up to get assignments, and it was tricky to find something they could do safely. We managed, and clean up for us lasted about 45 minutes before we were mostly done. I checked out with my lead, and then we headed to a well-earned dinner. I managed to stay away from the nachos! I did get a slice of pumpkin bread from one of their tickets, but otherwise behaved myself. We got the kids home by 6 pm, and Dave wanted to send them to bed! I took advantage and had both kids practice piano. Brandon practiced his solo, and Peyton read. They were still in bed by 730 pm. We need to work our way back to day light savings time on Sunday, so it’s not a big deal for them to go bed early.
First graders;
Fourth graders…hard to see because of the sun…
Here are the other pictures I took:
Mrs M was a pair of scissors to go along with the kinder school supplies – box of crayons, pencil, glue, and note paper (Brandon’s teacher with “put your name on your paper”). The first grade teachers were commenting how creative they were. First grade teachers were a Disney theme.
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Our volunteer selfie. We’re rarely at school together!!
Here’s what Dave got from B’s class….he’s standing next to HIS teacher, too, and G. Harry Potter characters for the fourth grade teachers.
