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Got school supplies this year
Sep. 2nd, 2018 01:11 amSpent $200 and I didn't even get that much. I bought an awful lot of pens - I want this year to be the year where I don't buy any pens until July. Bought extra pencils too, including two boxes of "X-tra fun!" pencils where the paint and the wood are different bright colors. I don't know who Bic thinks they're fooling with that label, but they're bright for those dismal days, anyway.
The kid I pick up got a last minute transfer to a new school with a different summer reading list, and I was able to snag both books used for his mother, plus the graph paper she'd had inordinate trouble finding. So that's good. He's not going to finish these books by Wednesday, though. (Also, not to malign the brilliant Zilpha Keatley Snyder, but if I had to pick two books for incoming sixth graders to read, I would not have gone with Freak the Mighty and The Egypt Game. I absolutely love Egypt Game, and loved it as a kid, but... not much happens in it. Which is a strange thing to say about a book with a serial child killer, but there you go. It's a lot of character development and personal growth, and not much action. And it's a good 50 years old. It's not the easiest sell for reluctant readers, and many of their students will be reluctant readers. I would've picked something more recent, and never worried about awards.)
The kid I pick up got a last minute transfer to a new school with a different summer reading list, and I was able to snag both books used for his mother, plus the graph paper she'd had inordinate trouble finding. So that's good. He's not going to finish these books by Wednesday, though. (Also, not to malign the brilliant Zilpha Keatley Snyder, but if I had to pick two books for incoming sixth graders to read, I would not have gone with Freak the Mighty and The Egypt Game. I absolutely love Egypt Game, and loved it as a kid, but... not much happens in it. Which is a strange thing to say about a book with a serial child killer, but there you go. It's a lot of character development and personal growth, and not much action. And it's a good 50 years old. It's not the easiest sell for reluctant readers, and many of their students will be reluctant readers. I would've picked something more recent, and never worried about awards.)
