Kids Want Snack Time

And when you threaten to take away snack time, they'll pretty much do whatever you tell them to.

Yesterday the class was not very good at listening and following directions. I had to give the same directions multiple times and they took forever coming to sit at the carpet, or at their desks or lining up. So today I told them we weren't having snack until they could show me they could do it the right way, and if we ran out of time for snack, then they just wouldn't have snack today.

Would you believe that they lined up and sat down silently and quickly the first time? Pretty much what I expected to happen, but it's still sort of funny and yet frustrating at the same time. So I lectured them a bit about how they need to do that every time now that I know they CAN do it the right way. Then they had snack.

The rest of the day was better than yesterday. I only had to move a few kids at group time, and they listened during directions and such that they did not do well yesterday.

In other news of the day, I sat in on a team meeting before school with the other 1/2 grade teachers. They were going over reading and writing standards and writing up a team plan for the year to be submitted to the principal and district or something. That is one thing that I am not sad to be missing out on as a substitute. And while pretty much boring, I was glad to listen in to get an idea of the behind-the-scenes stuff going on. Plus I'm making my face really familiar with the other teachers in the team. I'm hoping to hit all of their rooms sometime this year (not that I want the teacher to get sick, but they're gonna want to use their personal days sometime!)

Tomorrow is (as far as I know at this point) my last day with this class. We have the jog-athon in the afternoon and pretty much the same stuff in the morning as all week - reading groups and math workplaces and such. It is nice to leave the building knowing where I'll be going, what I'll be doing, and the names of kids I'll be seeing ahead of time. I will miss that tomorrow!