Yesterdays Assignment: 4th grade (30 students) local country club school.
Tuesday, 4th grade assignment, stormy weather like last Tuesday and NO LESSON PLAN. OMG! It’s deja vu all over again from a week ago!!!
I called the office to ask if there is a special place the lesson plan might be located, wishing like hell this wasn’t going to be a repeat of last Tue.
The office called the teacher at home and hooked us up. She said the “general plan” was in the plan date book and that the kids all knew what/when to do stuff.
With crossed fingers and a little prayer, I met the incoming class at the door.
Sure enough, I was more of a “conductor” instead of a “teacher”. One kid took the role, a second did the homework check and 2-3 of the girls guided me to the location of the teacher’s books for the lessons to be done.
The work day pretty much petered out about 45 mins before the end of class and the noise level started to get out of hand.
I decided to try the “guess my old job” exercise that worked so well with last weeks 6th grade class.
Surprisingly they all got into it with the pretty much the same list as the 6th grade. One kid floored me with “I think you worked for Applied Materials, am I right?”
Busted!!!
I couldn’t figure out how this kid knew where I had worked, so I asked her how she came to that conclusion.
She had spotted the logo on the pen in my shirt pocket with the stylized company logo of an “A” on the clip. These country club kids are pretty sharp to spot that logo AND know the company name it goes with it.
She then rattled off several names of people she knew that, evidentially, work for her Dad and sell stuff to Applied.
Gotta stay on my toes around these kids.
1 comment:
What a great idea for subs ... to play the "guess What I did before .." game. Shows you're aptitude to be teaching must high because you can think on your feet! Sometimes the best teaching is "to the moment".
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