Head Injuries and Heart-Throbs! :)

I love these little 5th graders!!!  They truly have my heart!!!  

This last week (week 2) we got to sub for two days while our cooperating teacher went to a conference.  Of course there was a paid sub there with us, but we ran the show!  

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And they sure gave us a run for our money!!! hahaha 

(If ONLY we made money! hahaha) 

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It must be hard for ten-year-old's to have three new teachers in their classroom, and that's understandable!  They like having fun with us.  Sometimes it's hard to discipline when you see them as friends, but it is so important to establish that teacher-student, professional relationship right off the bat.  It really does help both of you in the end.  

Thursday we got to greet the students like their teacher normally does! We sat by her desks and greeted each student by name as they lined up to say good morning. :)  Then we got right into math!  It was fun working with Makaila and doing fun math activities with the students! They especially like using their desks as white boards.  We had fun races to see which row could clean off their desks the fastest once we were done....a little competition sure does make cleaning go by a whole lot quicker! :)

By the time we got to PE the kids were soooo excited!  We played their favorite game, "Ship to Shore."  They had to move quickly and run from one side of the gym to the other.  When it was down to the last two girls, they raced to one side of the gym and one girl slid on her knees to get there faster..but ran into the wall face first. :(  Luckily there were three of us teachers to take care of her and the rest of the class!  She is doing fine and wanted to stay at school that day...her parents didn't let her!! hahaha But she is doing great now!

My favorite part of the day was when one of the students brought me and Makaila a drawing she had made for us!  She had written all over it how wonderful we are and that they never want us to leave! :) That sure made us feel loved and appreciated!

I would change how we did classroom management.  I think sometimes its too hard to have three teachers doing the teaching and managing.  I think it would be better to have one teacher teach something while the other is managing the students, instead of both doing both at the same time.

To help my students I would want to WORK WITH THEIR PARENTS TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN DO THEIR HOMEWORK!!!!!!  It is SO vital that they get attention at home while they work on their homework!  The differences in the students who have parents who help their kids with their homework and the ones that don't are HUGE!   I don't know what I could do to work with the parents...but I want to!