Cutting Paper and Filing

Pretty much that's what I did today.  I was lucky enough to get to return to a class who I knew had a student teacher.  She was in the middle of her full-time teaching, so she did everything - the lessons, taking them places and picking them up.  The only thing I did was recess duty and I brought them in from recess.  

The rest of the day I did a lot of cutting and pasting.  The teacher had a bunch of printed-out pictures that she wanted cut out an affixed to colored construction paper before she laminated it.  After that I organized a drawer in a file cabinet and made file folders for a couple stacks of Investigations (math) materials.  I was a little tired of all the sitting, and my back kinda hurt from sitting on those cold hard metal chairs all day, but I really didn't mind doing the projects.  It was better than just having to sit there and stare off into space.  The teacher was very appreciative - it saved her nearly 7 hours of work!

Cute story:  Can't remember exactly how it came up, but at one point a kid raised his hand during a conversation and said that his mom said that there's something you learn when you don't have much money: that money isn't really that important, and you learn to trust in God instead.  I thought it was cool that he just shared that with his entire class! :)