Did you know I have beautiful handwriting?

Scholastic books came in, hooray! They were very fast this year, I received the order before a week of submitting it. If you are a teacher, you know all about scholastic. I enjoy scholastic for the free books, but sometimes it seems like an endless job. First of all you have to separate all the little fliers. This year I am trying to get better as this is the second year I am the one sending out and submitting the orders. I am making a goal to send out the fliers the first of every month. Okay, so after you get all the fliers to send out, I do online ordering so I have to set that up for parents online and print out a sheet telling them how to order online. And then it begins...

As soon as a child submits an order whether online or they bring back the flier with money, they will ask every day if their books have come in. I explain to the children that the other students have until the 15th to submit their order. Of course, the 15th comes up and the questions about the books come back.

Have the books come in?

My mom ordered me some books, she said you would have them.

When will the books get here?

Seriously, it is like a child constantly asking, "Are we there yet?" It is enough to drive you crazy. In an effort to get all the books sent at one time, I have to put the paper orders online and then send a check. It seems like a lot of work, but oh well scholastic is nice to teachers and we end up getting free books for our work. Typically I have waited anywhere from a week and half to two weeks for books, so I was excited to get them so quickly to put the questions to rest.

Regina received as one of her ordered items a neon scratch book. Basically one of the books where you draw pictures with a wooden object that looks like a pencil without lead on a black piece of paper and color appears. Well, Regina quickly goes to work scratching off all the black. I say Regina, "you are supposed to draw pictures and write things and look at the cool colors it makes in the drawings." I write her name in cursive on the paper she has currently scratched off most of the black paint.

"Oh Ms. J. you have such beautiful handwriting!"

"I try, but don't see how cool your name looks with all the pretty colors?"

"Yes, but I just wanted to see what the color designs were behind the black."