I got woken up at 6.30am by a text asking me to cover for one of the teachers who was off sick today, which meant coming in an hour earlier and teaching grade 1 all day (and getting paid for it). I got to school at 8am and the teacher who was ill had emailed me the lesson plans for the day. It was pretty straight forward but a bit nerve racking teaching subjects that I don’t really know much about, like science, social studies and maths as well as English. There was also the added panic factor that I don’t know how to use the smart board and I don’t know where anything is kept! Little things like that and the fact that I kept having to look at the lesson plan to check what to do next made me feel like the lesson didn’t really flow properly, but the kids probably didn’t even notice!
The day went quite smoothly and for one of the lessons I got the children to help with my display board for the project they are doing on tigers. One tiger looks like a sabre tooth tiger and the other looks like a giraffe! It was good fun though and the kids were quite imaginative over what to put in the jungle, such as nests in the trees, flowers and apples in the trees.
At the end of the day I was pretty exhausted and glad to get out of the school and go home to chill out, even treating myself to a subway melt for tea.
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