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Elementary
Sep. 15th, 2009 03:41 pmI lead a life of excitement and varied employment.
The '09-'10 school year started at the end of August. Today was my first subbing day. Got the call at 7:15 this morning from the school secretary and not the automated system. Which pretty much means I'll say yes as long as I don't have something else to do. I have a bad habit of hanging up on the automated system. ::shame::
But it was an emergency, so I went in. Subbed for a position that's new this year. I traveled around the school, going to one class in each grade (K-5) for 45 minutes doing Weekly Reader and Time for Kids. TFK was about the California wildfires and WR was fire prevention. I also got to lug around a 45 lbs. backpack to demonstrate how heavy some of the equipment a firefighter carries is.
I was sort of dreading kindergarten and first grade, the last two classes of the day, because filling 45 minutes with kids that age can be difficult if you've only been given so much material to work with. And thrown in there. But they were my favorite classes of the day. Definitely the most well behaved and quiet. I was super impressed.
One of the IAs in the kindergarten helped teach me in first grade. The first grade teacher taught my brother (now 21) in kindergarten. Crazy!
But it really was a pretty good day, even if I am now losing my voice. I saw a bunch of my library kids (haha, my library kids) and even got a drive-by hug from one of them, which was awesome.
You know, I really do not want to teach (because, wow, that is a lot of work and some crazy politics) and when I thought I did it was never elementary, but I do love being at the elementary now as a sub. Kids can be little punks and brats and loud and annoying, but they can be really great, too.
The principal wanted to know if I could do this again this week since now I understand what the position needs/asks for and the woman I was subbing for may not be back due to her father being ill. Unfortunately, Wednesday and Thursday I'm subbing at the public library.
I still have city council tonight. I'm hoping I don't actually fall asleep.
The '09-'10 school year started at the end of August. Today was my first subbing day. Got the call at 7:15 this morning from the school secretary and not the automated system. Which pretty much means I'll say yes as long as I don't have something else to do. I have a bad habit of hanging up on the automated system. ::shame::
But it was an emergency, so I went in. Subbed for a position that's new this year. I traveled around the school, going to one class in each grade (K-5) for 45 minutes doing Weekly Reader and Time for Kids. TFK was about the California wildfires and WR was fire prevention. I also got to lug around a 45 lbs. backpack to demonstrate how heavy some of the equipment a firefighter carries is.
I was sort of dreading kindergarten and first grade, the last two classes of the day, because filling 45 minutes with kids that age can be difficult if you've only been given so much material to work with. And thrown in there. But they were my favorite classes of the day. Definitely the most well behaved and quiet. I was super impressed.
One of the IAs in the kindergarten helped teach me in first grade. The first grade teacher taught my brother (now 21) in kindergarten. Crazy!
But it really was a pretty good day, even if I am now losing my voice. I saw a bunch of my library kids (haha, my library kids) and even got a drive-by hug from one of them, which was awesome.
You know, I really do not want to teach (because, wow, that is a lot of work and some crazy politics) and when I thought I did it was never elementary, but I do love being at the elementary now as a sub. Kids can be little punks and brats and loud and annoying, but they can be really great, too.
The principal wanted to know if I could do this again this week since now I understand what the position needs/asks for and the woman I was subbing for may not be back due to her father being ill. Unfortunately, Wednesday and Thursday I'm subbing at the public library.
I still have city council tonight. I'm hoping I don't actually fall asleep.
