So today is the second day of school for students in Salem-Keizer, and I was lucky enough to have a full-day sub job. It was for a teacher I know who had the misfortune to get summoned for jury duty. It was for a pretty long and intense case that would have lasted 12 weeks, so she was very glad to get dismissed after a few hours waiting.
My day was pretty simple. The class is a bilingual class, so the IA did a lot of the morning instruction that was supposed to be in Spanish. I helped out with what I could, and found that most of the kids spoke pretty good English, so I was able to communicate with them well.
I was on my own with them during lunch time, and I spend quite a bit of this time opening milk cartons and ketchup packets, cleaning up spilled milk, and fishing forks and spoons out of the garbage can.
In the afternoon I read a story their teacher had left, and did a "game" where we basically decided if various items could be recycled or had to go in the trash.
After that we took them out to an extra recess, and from there to Music. (Also got mildly scolded by another teacher for bringing the kids into the building before the previous music class had left (despite the fact that we were right on time and the music teacher was running late). Apparently I am not the first to be scolded by this person though, so I pretty much just tried to avoid rolling my eyes at the situation.)
Right as the IA and I were heading back into the main building, the classroom teacher got back from the jury duty. She did the last 30 minutes of the day and I got to play assistant.
It was a nice way to start the year! The kids were very sweet and it was sure easy for me. I'm looking forward to receiving a September paycheck! :)
1 comment:
It sounds like you had a very busy day with a lot of different activities. Sorry you had a cranky person scold you. There seems to be one in every school. I'm glad your first day back was a good one!
Love you!!! MOM
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