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Day 66 – 7th Grade Math

03 Mar

on paper, this was the easiest subbing job ever.  It was a class I had had before, and all I was doing was giving a test and then giving them work out of the book.  Best of all the kids controlled if they had homework or not, because the only homework was to finish the book work.  For the most part it went pretty well.

The most difficult part of the day for me was in the first class.  The test was on warm-up problems that they had seen before and already had the answers to.  One kid decided to write the answers on his desk.  I decided to be nice and is having moved to a different seat.  Since I had passed out the test I figured this would be okay.  In the note I left the teacher I let her know that I caught this kid writing the answers on his desk and I gave him the test anyway since it had been passed out yet.  I asked somebody in the class.  Later what happened to that kid and they said nothing, which made me pretty angry.  I guess I should have sent him to the principal’s office when I caught him instead of hoping that the teacher would do it when she came back

For the rest of the day the only problem was that the advanced class finished all of their old work while they were in class, which isn’t really a problem at all.

 
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Day 65 – 1st Grade

03 Mar

First graders are so easy to listen to everything you say, they mostly follow directions, they are still excited about going to school.  Best of all is their surprise when they have a boy for a teacher.  it really shouldn’t be that big of a deal, but it is.  Which is just fine with me because it usually means all have a very easy day behavior wise.

Today was no different.  The worst part of the day was that I  talked to another teacher during my break and didn’t get a chance to read my book.

 
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Day 64 – Middle School Orchestra

03 Mar

The plans for every class on this day said to just let the students practice and that they would do what they were supposed to do.  I was rather skeptical to put it nicely.  I’ve probably gotten a bit too cynical based on teacher saying that their classes would do the work and then they didn’t.  But on this day, she was actually right.

The only problems I had with any of the orchestra classes were who got to run the tuner.  Outside of that everybody actually practiced the entire time.  It was amazing.

She also had a class that was music appreciation.  That class watched the movie, and I went in to make sure they don’t talk dictator role.  That probably didn’t need to happen because they all paid attention.

She did tell me to watch out for this class, but I think I need to form my own opinion and not form one based on what the teacher but for me.

 
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Day 63 – Middle School Drama

03 Mar

Imagine a day where you could sit around and talk about comic books and superheroes all day with the kids.  Sounds a pretty good day to me.  Of course I did have the added bonus of getting paid for it.

The sub plans at this teacher left were for them to trace the outline of a human figure and then create their own superhero.  I had no behavior problems in a middle school I think that is the first time that’s happened.

The only bad part of the day was when kids tried to create a superhero that actually existed.  They were surprised that I know about Shark Boy and Lava Girl.  They tried to combine two or more superheroes into one.  If I was their teacher would’ve had an issue with that.  But this was their work.  So I didn’t tell them that they were creating somebody that already existed unless they asked.

 
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Day 62 – 2nd Grade

03 Mar

This group was insanely self-sufficient.  They checked homework.  They did attendance, they did everything all by themselves.  Probably didn’t even need to be there.

This class didn’t even write in the weekly reader they use for some of their work.  I’ve had middle schoolers but didn’t understand the concept of using their own paper.

Of course, they did freak out when they saw the teacher for the day was a boy.

 
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Day 61 – 5th Grade

03 Mar

Once in a while I get a class that I’m sure the teacher just loves but the environment she created is so far off from what I’d want that it’s hard to deal with.  Sometimes it’s one where the kids seem to get away with a lot[1], but most of the time it’s an elementary school where the kids don’t even try to talk while doing their work.  This was one of those days.

The worst behaved kid was reading while he should’ve been doing other work.  Reading, how terrible.  I wish that was my biggest problem everyday.

The best part of the day was that the kids had clubs or something similar at the end of the day.  I asked another teacher what we can do about dismissing since I’m not allowed to do any afterschool duty or be responsible for where  the kids end up.  She looked like she was going to freak out about that.  Then she remembered about the clubs.  The kids got dismissed from there and I didn’t have a club.  End of the day break time for me.

  1. My guess when a class is really terrible. [↩]
 
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Day 60 – 5th Grade

03 Mar

This was another late start day, but because the weather this time.  The beginning of the day would have been rather boring[1], but I asked another teacher, and we decided that the best plan was to just go with everything at the regularly scheduled time.

Figuring out the problem was the worst part of the day.  While we were in class they worked.  I’d had them before so I wasn’t surprised at all.

The only other issue was hearing the other classes complain during lunch about how we went outside and they didn’t.  We probably shouldn’t have either.  But they all wanted to, and they all had appropriate clothing.

  1. Language Arts again and I think I you know how I feel about that. [↩]
 
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