Thursday, February 11, 2010

Fifth to Kinder & Lots of Confusion

Wow, I don't even know where to start today's blog! Today was a big mess of mix-ups, tight schedules and mistaken identity. I will try to simplify it so you don't have to spend an hour reading my blog.

Anyways, I started the morning across town in a 5th grade class. I arrived early (hoping that then I could leave early to go to my second school for the afternoon), only to have to wait in the office for 10 minutes for the office staff to arrive and print out the sign in sheet. Then I went to the room to find a mess on the teacher's desk and absolutely no plans or plan book in sight. I did spend a good 10 minutes searching though. Just as I was about to give up and go to the office to ask for some sort of schedule so I'd at least know when PE or Music and Lunch were. However, at this time the teacher walked in. He looked totally shocked to see me there and it was not long before we figured out that the person in the office who puts in the sub requests made a mistake and got a sub for the morning when he actually needed a sub for the afternoon! I told them I already had a job for the afternoon, so they had to get a new sub, and I ended up teaching the class for the morning anyway. They were a pretty nice class and the morning when by quickly. However, in all the commotion of the morning I didn't get a chance to call the second school and give them a heads up that I was coming from another school and might be a few minutes late.

Come midday I ended up racing out of the first school and driving back out across town to the second school. Annoyingly, I got behind some slow drivers and hit a few red lights so I was about 10 minutes late. I literally ran from my car to the front door. Thankfully, the second school hadn't even noticed I was late, and didn't seem to care either (helpful that they know me so well I think). The afternoon was with kindergarten, and when I got there the teacher was still in the room. For a minute I was afraid I was going to have a repeat of the morning, but all was well. The teacher actually stayed and lead the class for the first hour. After she left the assistant (also a sub) and I took the kids to recess, then I read them a story, and then they did math centers. It was pretty easy and the kids were good. It was a pretty drastic change from 5th grade though!

Anyways, despite the two nice easy classes it was kind of a stressful day. I'm hoping I don't have to do two half days at different schools again anytime soon!

1 comment:

Betty said...

Sounds like kind of a crazy day. I'm glad you were able to get through it without too much stress. Hopefully you will get full days and not have to switch mid-day.
Love you!!! MOM