Another busy week at Greer – more doubled-up classes for bicycle skills course for 4th and 5th graders plus the second pedestrian safety lesson for 2nd and 3rd graders. Fewer staff this week as Spring Break gets closer. On Friday, it was just Lorge and me for one 40-minute lesson with about 60 kids. Ugh.
About 200 helmets, name tags removed, reboxed by size, and ready to be picked up for storage back at SABA headquarters.
Time to decompress and think about how to make things better at the next school we are supposed to go to.
The Vice Principal notified us that we would not be able to do walking field trip because it was too dangerous to take the kids, not only to Bell St and Hurley Ave, even to the parking lot to practice on a real crosswalk. The reason: a child was hit by a car this morning before school. So proud of the people who worked that day for instantly being able to pivot and create four stations around campus to practice what students had learned in lesson 1,
a little street design,
and a visit to the garden.
The team in our happy place – the stage of the cafeteria. Brando, Joel, Joseph, Lorge, BarbaraL, Deanna, Winona.
Nine months ago, June 2025, Avery asked if I had any projects where he could earn money. Sure, the chairs on the front porch needed to be refinished! He did all the sanding over the summer and then the project stalled. Recently Thais was able borrow a paint sprayer from the neighbor and finish the job. Dave made these chairs for me shortly after I moved here in March 2017.
LOL: Thais informed me there would not be a future refinishing of these chairs.