Round Up/ Screening

This time of year is very busy in Kindergarten and DK. Around now is when everyone starts to think about next year's incoming littles. Each school in the district has both a Kindergarten Round Up night and Kindergarten Screening dates.  Let me briefly explain both. Kindergarten Round Up is basically an hour long meeting for all parents of incoming Kindergarteners for the 2013-2014 school year. They hear from the Principal, K teachers, and a DK teacher. They receive some paper, listen to some powerpoints, and sign up for Kindergarten screening. Now screening is an assessment based event. This is when the parents come back to school with their student and the staff assesses their letter knowledge, gross motor capabilities, number recognition, etc. After this is complete, they staff determines if the child is ready for Kindergarten or if the child would benefit from a year of DK.

Long story long, here we are in the middle of it. The rest of this story will be hard to tell without using names. I will try my best to be clear, but just work with me.  I was signed up to give a Round Up presentation and do screening at another school (let's call this school A) in the district. No problem. I found a sub early and am all set for the night presentation that is later this week and the two days I will have to miss next week to screen. Then, I volunteered to do Round Up for another school (school B) who needed the help. Last week, I quickly pulled myself together for the presentation that was on Thursday. I left when I was done and all was great.....until Friday when I was asked to help them (school B) with screening too....only they are screening for THREE days this coming week. That's three days I will need to find a sub. My sub for the other dates (two dates for screening for school A) can only do Thursday, so now I am hunting for someone to cover my room on Tuesday and Wednesday so that I can help school B with K screening. Yikes!!!!!!!!! I am in no surprise that I am in this situation, because anyone that knows me knows that I literally CANNOT say "No" to anything. CANNOT. CAN'T. Won't. Will not. Can't.

I am pretty excited for all of the days of screening to see how it all goes down and the GOOD NEWS is, that it all works out. I'm not worried. What is meant to happen will find a way. HOWEVER, if you want to be my substitute...call me. ;) Just kidding!