Welcome to Camp Week. This week most of my students are up in somewhere Michigan doing Lord knows what to learn I'm not sure. I'm not going so I wasn't given the details. Meanwhile, I am back at the building with the eight students who, for whatever reason, did not go. I'm just going to be talking about all of the fun I have this week with my eight lovelies.
To begin, I have a new respect for Kindergarten teachers after this morning. I always respected teachers who worked with the very little ones, but that respect has become admiration of believing that they walk on water next to Christ himself!
Here's what happened: the substitute teacher that was here on Thursday and Friday was so awful that she was asked not to return. The kids were running like they were mad, she left them unattended in the hallways and at dismissal, and even allowed them run the classroom instead of doing their work.
I walked in the office to sign-in this morning and one of the administrators looked at me and told me that she loved me. (I know something with fishy at that point.) The conversation went:
"And why do you love me?"
"Because you'll fill-in for kindergarten until the sub gets here."
"What time is the sub coming?"
"I don't know."
Jesus help me PLEASE!
Anyway, I took my eight students into kindergarten this morning to help me teach a little about weather. There was nothing for them to do! The lessons just read science and gave a list of three vocabulary words. I was clueless so I went hunting and found some kindergarten activities for them to do.
I was only in there for an hour and I was losing my mind, so were my students. I think they went to gym with a tick. They were excited to hear that they could help me clean my room instead of going back to the kindergarten room.
Either way, back to business on my end. We're doing our classes a little differently this week. I have Iheartradio playing and my wonderful students are working on a math packet. I wanted to put them in stations, but, because of this morning's adventures, I'll have to start the stations tomorrow. Right now they just need the down time to work a bit and get their bearings again.
I'm praying that this will be a great week for them. One week where they are leading their own learning and having a good time doing it. It doesn't sound like something out of the ordinary, but this is my group that most consider the hard workers and "good" kids. I just need to get pictures of my stations. :)
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