Even though I was in bed by 7pm, I barely slept last night I felt so rough. I have a sore throat that feels like it is closing up and everything aches. I seriously considered calling in sick today but forced myself to get out of bed. When I got to school I found out that the second grade teacher that I teach English for had called in sick so it was a good job I had gone in to cover her classes.
I started the day with grade 2C with reading, I didn’t really know what the morning routine was and only had a outline of what I was supposed to do in each lesson. I found the register and realised that there were 4 children missing, even though I had seen them earlier that day, not the best start to the day! I went to report it to the office and then left them to find the missing kids as I had to be straight into the grade 1 classroom as we had an open day at parents who wanted their children to come to the school were observing the lesson. After the lesson I took the class for lunch and then I had my lunch and tried to catch up on some of my marking of the grade 1A homework. Before I knew it, it was 12.45pm and I had to go and collect grade 2C from the playground and take them up to their lesson. I find this class quite a challenging class anyway but today they were bouncing off the walls and before the lesson had even begun another teacher came to tell me that 4 of the boys had been messing about in the bathroom. The lesson I was covering for didn’t go very well as not many children were on task as the parent that was supposed to come in and read with two groups and me to read with the other two groups didn’t turn up so the lesson didn’t go according to the plan I had been given. The lesson I would have usually taken went well until the spelling section as the children had handed in their spelling books to the teacher that was off sick and I couldn’t find them, but by this point a lot of children were completely off task, behaviour really was not up to standard today and I had had enough. I made the children sit in silence completing the work that I had set and said that for every person that talked I would put a mark next to their name and every mark would mean a minute knocked off their playtime. After the 5 minutes, 3 of the children had marks next to their name so I let everyone else go and kept those children in to make up the minute. I think this really shocked the kids as they are not used to me doing that! It really was a bad lesson but when I was going through their work they had completed more in the 5 minutes of silence than in the whole lesson so it had paid off! I had a quick break then I was back with grade 1A and as it was the last lesson of the month we watched Mr Bean and ate popcorn which the children loved, a much better end to the day!
After school I went for dinner with a few other teachers, even though I had been feeling ill all day and then came back to my apartment where I was in bed by 7pm again.
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