Just kidding. Thursday I subbed at a middle school again, and eighth grade did have graduation rehearsal most of the day. Fortunate for me, I subbed for seventh grade. The end of year had already come for three of the districts I sub in, but this one district actually finishes next week with a half-day […]
No, not that kind of meeting. I mean meeting three students from my church. I should add that none of them were in my class but rather I sort of just ran into them. Two of them approached me, and for the other I recognized his name and approached him. It started with graduatin rehearsal the
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If one awards ceremony wasn’t enough, the school I was at today had its own awards show. Knowing that elementary students are far more impatient than older ones, this ceremony was much shorter fortunately. And I got to sit down… Actually, the entire thing was one hour, but the presentations were only about 20 minutes.
…for the 5th graders in children’s ministry that is. What? Did you think I meant I was done with this blog? Today the 5th graders made their exit from children’s ministry. In a couple of weeks they will officially enter student ministries as junior high students. Being Memorial Day weekend didn’t help though as there
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The assignment I took for today at that furthest school was art and drama. Interesting combination as usually drama is the realm of the music teacher. It was actually a pretty easy day. School started at 8:00, so I was there at 7:45. My first class? 9:30. That’s right, I had over an hour and
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Well, I thought I was teaching at church today, but I found out otherwise- right before I was going to teach. As the kids sang worship songs, I went into an adjoining room to look over the lesson again. When I came out, the family pastor was there with his Bible ready to teach. Oh
Memory for remembering scripts that is. We all know about my memory for names and faces by now. Memorizing scripts used to be a breeze, but now I just can’t seem to get it right. I had two weeks this time, and it was better, but I still changed a few of my lines because
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Many times when a teacher’s absence is planned he or she will plan something even the most brainless substitute can handle. Often this is a test or book assignment. Other times, like today, it’s a video. Actually yesterday I showed a video in 5th grade, but that was only one half hour out of the
One thing about my life is that I don’t easily form relational ties, as in friends. This does make it easier to live on a substitute teacher salary since I don’t go to social events, but it does make for a boring life. I have strong ties with my church, particularly children’s ministry, but outside
When subbing for a regular classroom teacher in an elementary school one would expect to have the same class for at least most of the day, granting of course switching for math which is common in the intermediate grades. Aside from the start of the day and a very short time in the morning for
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