Gotta love Hannah Montana!

Let's see....what to blog about today? Well, I subbed at a school way up north in Salem this afternoon in a 3rd grade class. The kids were a little rowdy when they first got there and the assistant in the room jumped in a said something about respect to them which kinda threw me off because I hadn't even said anything to them myself yet. But oh well, moving on...

So I started reading to the kids from this book the teacher left and they were talking a lot so I had to stop and lecture them on being polite and how I was their teacher for the afternoon and they needed to be good listeners, blahdy-blah, etc. After that they were a lot better. We did some other reading and writing activities and everything was going just peachy. Then at the end of the day they kids were finishing up their work and a bunch of them were talking, but I was just ignoring them and trying to figure out what to do for the last 10 minutes of the day. Well, at this point the assistant jumps in again and makes all the kids put their heads down and apologize to me. That was kinda awkward because I didn't really feel like they owed me an apology, but I also didn't want to say that because it'd make the assistant look bad. So I just pretty much just stood there. She meant well, and I appreciated that she wanted to help, but it just made me look ineffective.

But we moved on, and I passed out folders before the kids went home. Some of the girls' folders had Hannah Montana stickers on them, so I sang a few bars of some Hannah Montana songs while they were coming to get their folders. This had all of them quite amused (and I think impressed with my great knowledge!) Nothing like a little Hannah Montana to entertain the youngsters!