So Easy, I'm Bored

If you haven't read the entry before this - do it now! :) Because I've written 2 in one day now that my internet is working again! More info in previous entry.

Okay, this one is about Wednesday's sub job. I was quite angry Wednesday morning because I got a call at around 8:10 for a job that started at 8 that was at a school that was about a 20 minute drive away! I had to get dress in like 5 seconds, pack my lunch in 3 and run out the door! I was also not sure what I was walking into because it was a bilingual first grade. So I had no idea how their English skills would be, or what the plans would be like. (One time last year, I subbed for 2 days in a bilingual first grade where the teacher had left lesson plans IN SPANISH that had me teaching reading and science in Spanish. Needless to say, I didn't teach in Spanish.) Anyways.

I got there and met the IA, who was a young guy who, I kid you not, looked like a Hispanic version of David Archuleta. He had the same facial features, just had a darker complexion! It was funny because when I first say him I kept thinking, this guy looks familiar! Then I finally figured out why. :) So the literacy block for this class is a nearly two-hour time period, and it's supposed to be done in Spanish. But these people were smart, and they realized they probably wouldn't get a Spanish sub, so the IA was all ready to teach it. So basically the entire morning I did nothing. The IA taught all the stuff and then the kids went to recess with him and then he brought them back with their lunches! After lunch, I read a book to them and then had them color a gingerbread man coloring page before the health teacher came in to teach a health lesson. She was having them using the small white boards at their desks for part of the lesson. However, she couldn't find the dry-erase markers, and she had them using vis-a-vis markers instead (which are intended for the overhead and only erase if you whip the surface with a wet cloth). All the kids are trying to erase it with their kleenex and it's just smearing around so I see a bunch of them licking their fingers and rubbing that around to wipe it off. One boy licked the whole palm of his hand and then started smearing it around on his white board! It was disgusting!! After their lesson I took them to PE and then came back and helped the health teacher disinfect all of the white boards!

After PE I did a couple short math lessons with them and then let them do their math stations for the rest of the day. They were really sweet kids!