This was possibly the best first subbing job I could have gotten. There were little kids, which I’m more used to[1], and I didn’t have to see the same ones every day. Not that I really would have minded that. It’s just nice that for my first job I could start over if I did something that didn’t work too well.
To make things even better it was on a day where she didn’t have all of the grades. I missed out on 4th if I remember right, but either way I got there about 7:15 and didn’t have a class come in until around 9. So I had plenty of time to figure out the room. Best of all, no figuring out how to eat and watch kids at the same time. How much better could it get?
Every class was the same. I set out some tubs with an activity on each table and the kids at that table did the activity. There were some complaints about how they wanted to do something different, but that was about the only problem all day. Well, that and some kids that broke crayons and the things you’d expect elementary schoolers to get in trouble for in an art class.
OK, kindergarten was different. I read them a Robert Munsch book and then gave everyone paper and crayons.
It was a great day.
- I was still doing the after school program at the Montessori school downtown at the time [↩]
Chris Osborne
November 14, 2009 at 9:03 am
Yep, a great day.