I arrive at the second grade class I am subbing today and find the teacher still there. She is getting a lesson plan ready. I do a couple things for her and then the student arrive. They are puzzled by me because they see their teacher is still in the room, so clearly I'm not a substitute. Five minutes later we are leaving for the gym for their morning "team time". Basically we go to the gym with everybody else and do some simple step dances. The selected songs for today were: the bunny hop, Cotton-eyed Joe, YMCA, and something else that I can't remember the name of. I was not very skilled at the dances, but a few girls were happy to try to teach me the steps.
A little later we return to the room. I take attendance, read a book aloud, etc. Then they switch rooms for reading. I get a slightly altered group of kiddos, and we start read to self time for 20 minutes. About halfway into this time I find myself at a table in the front of the room looking over the materials for the day. One group of students sits at a table directly behind me. It is really quiet in the room when I hear a couple of the kids from behind me softly gasp. I turn to see what's up and discover that one of the other students at this table has just thrown up all over himself, the table, and the book he was reading. I tell the other kids to move, and quickly write this kid a pass to the office. He's out the door and, besides the 3 at his table, no one else in the room has even noticed! That's how silent his throwing-up was! Shocking. Anyways, we call the janitor, it gets cleaned up, the kid goes home, no one is too traumatized - although I did have the urge to wash my hands a lot!
In other news:
- It was freakishly cold at recess. I even sent one boy inside because he had a light coat on and was shivering and complaining about being freezing.
- A person from OSU came to give a health lesson and I didn't realize they were coming. I had to work about an hour less which was nice, but it did make the clean up at the end of the day a bit crazy because we had so little time.
- Their teacher is still sick, so I'm going back tomorrow. Hopefully my dance skills will improve and no one will puke.
2 comments:
Barf bags for reading class! Eeww. On a similar note, when I was in middle-school, I was at a church summer camp and we were having morning prayer before breakfast and a girl behind me in line made a really weird noise. When we finished praying she took off running to spit out her puke. She had held it in her mouth so she wouldn't disturb prayer time. GAG!
Glad you didn't have to clean up the mess. Rhonda
It amazes me that a child could throw up in a 2nd grade class and it would be such a quiet event. You were very fortunate in this one.
Love you!!! MOM
p.s. I'm with you on the hand washing
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