Today I did not get called in. So I have had a very productive day off. I have applied to be a volunteer with the Boys & Girls Club, sent an e-mail in an attempt to finalize my summer plans, visited the doctor and went SHOPPING! Despite my awful veins I bought a CUTE skirt! (I totally negotiated with myself while trying it on. "I can just wear pantie hose." "If I lose more weight, maybe my veins will get better. They have already started receding.") The internal voice won. I also bought a new pair of khaki's and a jacket that normally I would point out to my friends Tracy or Biz. (They pull these kinds of jackets off soo well. Maybe it is because they have cute taste and amazing outfits.) But again the voice in my head talked me into it. "Come on. You can pull this off. It will look so great with your new pants. This out fit screams trendy teacher!" So the voice won, again. Finally I purchased a shiny dangly necklace and a fun beaded necklace. Oh and did I mention I got all of this for $58! That's right, super savy!
I have defiantly needed some new clothing. It is very awkward to get called in and not to know if you have pants to wear! Also getting called into district 1 has been very interesting. First day, I was called in at 9:00am to work in the Therapeutic Learning Center (TLC). This is a classroom for students who have a hard time with emotions or focusing on their work because of medical issues. My heart really goes out to these kids. They have so much that they have to deal with but they are such fantastic kids. The staff does a great job helping these students work through what they are dealing with. These kids were so fun to work with. The teachers let me do a read aloud with the students and I could have just taken them home with me. They hung on my every word, made predictions, and discussed the book so well! I LOOOOVED these kids. Working in this classroom was such a great experience.
Another fun experience came the next day when I was called in 10 minutes before the school bell rang. I showed up ready to teach a third grade class only a few minutes after the bell rang. Found out that the sub plans where thrown together in the last minute by the teacher's colleges but only up to lunch. Those poor colleges were soo worried for me. They informed me that the class was not always the best behaved and that their teacher got sick on her drive to work (hence the lack of plans).
When I sent my students off to their specialists, I sat down with the other teachers. They told me what they thought I should for the afternoon. So I wrote down my sub plans. That afternoon I pretty much threw those plans out. Found out one of my kids didn't have a copy of the packet we had planned to work on, so I read them some Shel Silverstein and we spent writing time making poems. The kids were so into the poems that several of them spent their indoor recess writing more. (That's right we also had indoor recess that day. Murphy's law was in full affect that day.) Then, as I was settling the kids down and digging into a math lesson one of the teachers popped her head into the room. Turns out we had an assembly. (Have I mentioned that I hate assemblies?) These kids however were wonderful. I had no problems with them. So as a reward we spent the last part of the day playing the "get to know you" game. They loved it.
The kids were great and the staff said that I was very impressive. They told me they loved how calm I was and how impressive I was when things fell through. They also told me that they hope to see me again. (I love leaving schools with this impression!)
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