Friday, May 13, 2011

Piggies, Drama, and 'Oops'es!

Alright, I'm finally getting caught up! I really hope blogger doesn't go down maintenance again right at the time I wast to use it!

So Friday I subbed in a very familiar first grade class - in fact, I've subbed for this teacher 9 full days this year and 7 half days so far. The routine and behaviors are pretty much the same.

This time we read a few "piggie" books. One was left by the teacher along with some activities, and I read another pig book of my own - one of my personal favorites, Piggie Pie.

We also had some required drama as two girls were arguing and then crying over how one had her feelings hurt and the other was embarrassed and it was the first girl's fault. Then it was my fault. Then the embarrassed girl got really snarly and I told the two to separate and left her to pout. About 20 minutes later they skip up to me with big smiles telling me they've "worked it out". I don't know why I waste time with this drama. Next time I think I'll just tell them to cool off for a while and not bug me.

It was a bit of an "off" day for me though. During this compound word game the class was playing I didn't see how the words "bean" and "jelly" went together, until a kid pointed out that it wasn't "beanjelly" but "jellybean"! I did the same thing later with the word "life". I couldn't figure out what word it went with, so the same boy had to show me that it went with "boat" to make "lifeboat". I tell ya - it was getting a little ridiculous! THEN, at the end of the day we were waiting and waiting for the popcorn to arrive that kids ordered in the morning. It never came and I was puzzled at what to do when another kid asked me if I'd sent the envelope down in the morning. Oops. No. No, I didn't. Good thing it's Friday.

1 comment:

Betty said...

I'm sure the class enjoyed getting to tell you the answers. Some days are like that when the most obvious things you can't see. I'm sure they enjoyed the Piggie Pie book. You'll have to read it to me some day so I can hear the special voices you use.
Love you!!! MOM