Today was the 1st day of school for the 2009-2010 school year. My fourth year in education, and my first year as a Media Specialist. And WOW what a day!!
Let me in on some of the highlights from my first day:
7:15 - Patrols come in to get their post assignments and reminders for the day...nothing too exciting here.
7:30 - A bunch of my students from last year stop in to say Hi. One of Laura's students from last year comes in to give me a hug and the conversation happens like this:
T: "Mrs. Brockman, what are you doing in here?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
T: "Why won't they let you back in 5th grade?! What did you do that they put you in here?!"
Me: "I want to be in here, it's my new job."
T: "Ooohhh.....I thought you were in time out in here."
Nice...
10:15 - Time for my 3rd grade class of the day. One teacher (who is not scheduled) shows up claiming it is here media time. I tell her it isn't and she insists that it is. I give her the benefit of the doubt and run down to the real scheduled teachers class and she is not in her room. So..I decided that this is a good sign that maybe the schedule was wrong and go back and start class with the new class. Well...10 minutes later the REAL class shows up (FIFTEEN MINUTES LATE MIND YOU!) looking at me like I'm nuts because I am having class with a class that isnt hers. I explain the situation and she is off to get the other teacher -- leaving me with both classes, equaling over 40 kids! That's okay, I'm flexible, so we begin to play a game of stand up sit down. Finally the wrong teacher shows up, gets her class, and I continue on with my class. Yeah, all of this happened in 45 minutes!!
1:00 - Time for my 1st grade class of the day. First off, holy leprechauns! Half of these kids backpacks are bigger than they are!! Like a good media specialist, I meet them at the door, have them line up their backpacks, and start leading them to the tables. Well...somehow three boys shoot off like lightning around a bookcase and in 30 second have a whole half a shelf on the floor! And they are so stinking short you can't see them behind the shelves! I get them settled down and my aide starts reshelving and I begin my story. Two word in and I'm interrupted by "I gotta go wee wee!" Um excuse me?! Come again?! I translate to I have to go to the restroom and send her on her way with a pass. Two more words in.."I need to pee pee too!!" Great..it's contagious! I am twelve words in, meaning a good 1/3 of the class now has to relieve themselves, and we have a line waiting for the pass when I feel my pocket moving. One lil boy is tugging my pocket, holding himself, one leg crossed, the other hopping up and down..all while whimpering and crying out "my wee hurts" At this point I have an out of body experience and am now pointing and laughing at myself, because yeah..its funny. I snap back into myself and realize I do not want this child to "wee wee" on my foot and send him ahead of his buddies to the "potty." We get through our book, and start to corral them into their section of the library. Wow was that fun! I need a herding dog, a cattle prod, and a gate! We get them over there, talk about shelf markers, and check some books out...then time to go!!
It was a crazy day, but actually and enjoyable one. The great thing about being a resource teacher?! Each class is only 45 min long, so translated that means its so doable. I have a high tolerance for nonsense and bull$*!t due to my 3 years in 5th grade, so 45 min is cake. I just have to get used to the wee ones of the world.
Until next time...
A glimpse into my world and its going ons...proceed with caution :)
1 comment:
I was that child who needed to pee all the time. I never thought about it from my teacher's perspective. And while talking about elem school, I loooooved the special classes - art, library, music. Wait, who am I kidding, I loved it all :)
Have I ever mentioned how I love that you teach elementary school? And that you can teach my kids (that don't exist yet) anytime?
xoxox
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