The End of Another Year

Well, here it is, June again, and the end of my fourth year subbing - third year for Salem-Keizer and second year blogging about it. Thankfully, this year has been much less frustrating than last year, and probably one of the best years subbing yet. I'm actually not horrified at the chance of doing it again next year. We will see...

Anyways, don't abandon my blog for the summer though! Starting on July 10th I will be teaching "Super Saturdays" at the Salem-Keizer Education Foundation. There will be 7 weeks of Saturday classes - all focusing on science activities. Kids will be building cars, boats, rockets, and other things. It should be a lot of fun! And I'll definitely be writing about those here when they start!

In the meantime, I'll be baking cakes - (http://www.vividcakes.webs.com/) - hopefully posting this link will be motivation for me to update this site! Also, I plan to spend a lot of time reading a reviewing my hordes of books! (http://novelobsession.blogspot.com/)

Happy summer everyone!

Too Many Giggles

I got called really late today. The call came at 8:20. The start time listed was 8:30. The time that school actually starts is 8:00. So by the time I got there the kids had been in school for nearly an hour.

There were also no plans. However, there was an assistant who filled me in on what to do throughout the day. At one point I read story, but had to stop partway through because a few of the boys were laughing really loudly every time I took a breath. It was annoying. We did finish it later after I gave a talk about how it's ok to laugh, but you need to be in control of yourself and quiet down when it's time to move onto the next page. They did better after that.

Then I got to take them to PE at 1:45. From there they had music and then they went home from there. I spent a good part of the afternoon reading - which I enjoyed.