What to Write in Those Confounded Chapters
What to say; what to say… What’s your method for filling your chapters with words? I begin with my outline topics for each chapter. I do a lot of staring …
All the Classroom’s a Stage: Third Grade Thespians
Children are natural born actors. Think about it. Aren’t children always looking for an audience? A two-year-old follows you around to give her rendition of “tantrum” or a nine-year-old offers …
Kindergarten Sub
Kindergarten class. You would think it would be easier, right? Twenty-five six year olds…all with new boots and sneakers. How do I know? Because each child told me so as …
The Grade School “Brain”
Have you ever encountered the grade school “brain”? Each class usually has one, and this time it is usually a boy. You know the type. The boy who doesn’t need …
Teaching Foreign Languages
As poor as my Spanish and French speaking abilities are, I forget how much more I know than those I am substitute teaching in middle school or high school, so …
The Noise Level
Can I keep every class quiet? Notice that I used the adjective “every” in the preceding sentence. Therefore, the answer to that question is absolutely not. I am a substitute, …
The Elementary Class Informant
Grade school is not what it was like when my children went through it about eight years ago. Presently, when I’m called in to substitute for kindergarten through fourth grade, …
Names, Names, Names
No. I’m not that good at remembering names, especially as I see hundreds of different students in three different schools. So I devised a way to make myself a unique …