School Yard

Round 4: March 2011 (Spring)

Staff: Principal Helen Reid is 57, Jodi Porter is 26

Students: Alyssa Thomas is 11, Brian Robinson and Meghan Harper are 9, An Hu and Leona Collins are 8 and Angel Rodriguez and Duane Grier are 6.

Helen loves getting to work a couple of hours before the school opens. She has a chance to fully wake up with her coffee and get a little extra work done.

But the time flies by like it always does and the kids start arriving and make their way to their classrooms.

It's only 9 am and An is anxious to go outside to play. Helen politely reminds her that recess is after lunch and she will have to wait.

An knows better but she still doesn't like it.

When class starts, Jodi tries to get the kids to focus on their geography but it doesn't seem to be working. It's her first year teaching at the school so the students know that she's a newbie.

After being told once, Alyssa gets back to work but Meghan thinks pouting will get her out of doing her class work.

Jodi stands firm and keeps a close eye on them until the end of class.

The only student not giving Jodi a hard time is An. An likes to play but she likes school just as much. She's usually the first one to finish her assignments (and sometimes the only one).

Brian doesn't really have a hard time with school but sometimes he has trouble focusing on his own work. Jodi often catches him looking around the classroom or at other students' papers.

Down the hall, the younger kids are in music class. This year they will be learning how to play the violin. The kids are very excited to play the instruments.

Helen... not so much. She's starting to think that maybe she should have started with something simpler and quieter. Like air guitar.

Duane doesn't know what he's doing and plays the violin more like a fiddle. But he gets an A for effort.

Lunchtime rolls around and Duane is excitedly talking about how some little girl kissed him on the cheek at the park.

Alyssa overhears and giggles to herself. She's counting down the days until she graduates primary school and can join the big kids in the high school.

Leona laughs at Duane, too, but isn't as subtle about it. She and a few other kids still think kissing is gross.

Angel is unusually chatty at lunch. Maybe it's because his parents were talking about going on vacation in a few months that has him so excited.

Brian's sitting with the older kids at lunch today, who happen to be all girls. He quietly sits through his meal wishing he wasn't stuck listening to a bunch of girls the entire time.

At the end of lunch, Helen tries to convince Jodi to do playground duty but Jodi outright objects.

But Helen's the boss and what she says, goes. She heads back to her office to work on more reports.

Luckily it's a beautiful day and the kids are no trouble at all.

The day finishes up with the older kids in the computer lab. An must have found the games on her computer because she is having way too much fun.

But it looks like she's not the only one not working on her typing skills.

Jodi is in the classroom with the younger kids teaching them spelling and grammar.

Angel makes sure he pays close attention to Jodi. He was so disappointed in himself when he brought home a C- a couple of months ago and he's determined not to do it again.

Notes:
-Meghan, Leona and Duane are in my playable orphanage. I shouldn't say playable because I haven't really played it since I set it up. I just had some leftover downloaded sims and wanted to put them in the game. So I aged them down and put them in the orphanage (which is just a house with a few toddlers and children and 2 adults). I wasn't planning on aging any of them until they were adopted but some of my playable kids brought them home from school.
-Jodi is a townie I made a while ago but moved into an apartment recently because she fell in love with another townie. There are no other sims in the Education field so I just grabbed her.
-There's not going to be another sim in the education field until Helen's daughter Michelle graduates from college. And she just entered her freshman year this round. So my high school will be run by a bunch of townies for a while.
-My sims will need to start having babies in the next few years or there won't be anyone to attend the primary school! They have 5 years until Angel and Duane turn 11 but I hope it happens way before then.