Things are about to change at my house! School is starting so Mister Guy and The Lady are going back to work. Mr. Guy had to go back last Monday for teacher work days. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Just the teachers were there. No students. If a teacher’s job is to teach students and there were no students, how could they be working? They didn’t haven’t papers to grade or anything. Mr. Guy said he just had to go to lots of meetings. That doesn’t sound like very much fun to me. I wonder if he learned anything???
The Lady has a few meetings and has to give some tests this week. I sort of understand the meetings, but tests? The Lady hasn’t even had any classes and she is already giving tests. She said that the tests aren’t the kind of test that you take in a class. The Lady called them placement tests. She said that these tests help her to advise the students as to what classes they need to register for. I don’t think that I want to go to a school where they give you a test before they even teach you anything!
On Friday, Mr. Guy spent the day getting his classroom ready. Since he teaches students about computers, that meant plugging in lots of stuff and pushing lots of buttons to make sure that all of the computers worked properly. He is good at that kind of stuff. In the afternoon, The Lady and I went to school with him to help make his classroom pretty. We got to hang stuff on the wall, arrange some shelves, and do his bulletin boards. Mr. Guy is not so good at that kind of thing.
While I was in his classroom, Mr. Guy showed me what he does all day. It was kind of like take your monster to school day.
Mr. Guy has his own special computer. From his computer he can see the screens of all of his students. He knows when they are on YouTube or Facebook or playing games when they are supposed to be doing their work. He can even take control of the students’ computers from his desk. He is kind of like a hacker spy!
Then I got to see one of the computers that the students use.
I like computers and Mr. Guy has taught me a lot, but I don’t know if I would like them if I couldn’t look at Facebook or work on my blog. Mr. Guy said that he teaches his students to use the computer for “professional” things like writing letters, making spreadsheets, and creating data bases. I don’t know what those things are, but writing about my adventures on my blog sounds like more fun than any of those things. Mr. Guy says that that means that I like the humanities rather than STEM subjects. I guess figuring that out is the kind of thing they taught him in all of his meetings this week.
Yep, computers are for writing. I now know where all of the letters are on the keyboard. I’m not sure where they go in all of the words I want to type, but I will figure that out. And if not, I have just discovered Spellcheck. It puts all of the letters in my words in the right order. It is magic!
Mr. Guy has lots of computers in his classroom.
It sounds as if you had a very interesting day in Mr Guy's classroom. Computers are so important these days. It's good that Mr Guy can teach the students so many different things. I can understand how you must be confused by some of those rules. I'm sure The Lady and Mr Guy will be pleased that you are at home making sure the cat and the dogs behave themselves. By the way, did you ever receive the collage of blue and orange flowers we sent to you last month? We thought you would like the colours. We can send it again if it didn't arrive.