Survival

This week I actually worked 5 full days!  And for at least 2 of those days I got called for jobs even when I wasn't requested for them.  I'm hoping that things are starting to turn around and the system will actually call me instead of just my roommate.

Today was really busy.  I spent most of the morning helping kids wrap their Mother's Day presents.  I also had to assist a couple kids who still had to make their presents.  Meanwhile, the assistant was working with the class on a writing project.  I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but we did finish everything.  

However, the afternoon was pure madness!  For lunch most all of the students had pancakes with maple syrup and a piece of cake with pink frosting - and they were feeling the sugar shortly after!  We were supposed to meet with their reading buddies, but we couldn't because the buddies had testing.  We tried to have partner reading in our room but the kids were really wound up!  Then they had a practice for their music concert, and then PE.  After PE we had another half-hour before the end of the day and we were supposed to do calendar, but once again, the class was just too crazy to get anything done.  I ended up talking to them for 15 minutes or so about what they should be acting like in the classroom.  They weren't terrible - just the high sugar-content of lunch, and this being a Friday near the end of school year all got together to make the kids a little cuckoo.

Oh, and one funny story (although not nearly as funny as the one from Tuesday which only my mom has read.  It's one of my top 5 funny stories, so if you haven't read it - do it now!):  When I took the kids outside at the end of the day to go home, one little boy (not from my class or any other class I've subbed for) came up to me and announced, "My mom is pregnant!"  That's all he had to say.  Funny stuff.