Mixed Up, Mashed Up Monday

For the second time in my professional career as a wandering educator I showed up to a school and they didn't need me. Well they needed me but some beef jerky took it from me. I was called on Saturday to sub for someone I know pretty well. She said that she would request me and she did but I was not available to answer the phone call. Usually the request will hold online until I either accept or reject it. However it did not do that so some other lady picked it up. Imagine our surprises when we both showed up for the same job. I heard that this lady was crazy so I just let it go, for this time.

I instead found a job at another elementary school in the vicinity. I had not subbed there before so I was excited to sub there. I did first grade and it went pretty well. The kids were a little chatty and took a lot of firm repetition at first to get them on task. Despite a few who needed constant redirection it was a good day. There were a few incidents that stuck out to me.

Incident One:
I was giving the kids a pretest and the word I gave them was daddy.
Random Child: "Are you a daddy?"
Me: "No I am not a daddy."
Random Child: "Hey my mommy is single will you be my daddy?"
Me: "Ummm... ok the next word is..."

Incident Two
During writer's workshop the kids were coming up to me to edit a piece of work. They would read their story to me and then I would write down the correct spelling of words for them. After that they wrote a final draft on special paper and illustrated it.
Child D: "Ok here is my story. Jesus died. Then he was alive. Then Jesus told Mary to go tell his disciples he was alive again. And they lived happily ever after."
Me: "Wow. Thank you for sharing your story with me. Just make those corrections and you can publish and illustrate."
Child D: "Thank you. Do you want to hear my other story about one of Jesus' disciples going blind?"
Me: "I am sorry, we only have time for one edit today. Maybe you can read it to your teacher tomorrow."
Child D: "Ok well I am going to go draw Jesus now."

I love my job! I just can't wait until I have my own class in which the randomness of life occurs.