Subbing in Fifth

Another subbing day today. This time in 5th grade, the classroom where I did my long-term subbing a couple years ago. It was nice to be in a familiar classroom with a familiar routine. The kids were pretty chatty no doubt because it's a two-day week and tomorrow is a field trip.

My mother-in-law is home from Arizona for Thanksgiving, so she was able to watch Jaron. She brought him to school over lunch, but he had had so much fun playing all morning, he fell asleep in the car right when they pulled up. I got him out of the car seat anyway, but he was so tired he stayed asleep! He ended up going home without any milk. 

I did some actual teaching today - religion, writing rough drafts for English, a social studies lesson on the fur trade. Best part of the day was starting the book Frindle as a class read aloud. I found out from the other 5th grade teacher that she had planned to use that book in a novel study after Christmas. Wonder if she still will. 🤔

I had another little snafu with the other 5th grade teacher... It was the end of the day and I had just finished teaching her class social studies. We finished a little early, and they asked if they could go out for recess. I knew my class had a PE, but I didn't know what their class was supposed to do. They said that they normally have recess while my class has PE and that Mrs. M would take them out to recess and the other fifth grade teacher would take the other class out. So, I let them go out a little early for recess. I went back to my classroom to get my outdoor gear and let my class know that we were going to have outside recess instead of PE. The other fifth grade teacher looked a little surprised when I said her class was already outside.

Turns out they weren't supposed to go outside. She had a different activity planned for them. They were going to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and have Charlie Brown Thanksgiving snacks. But since they were all outside she abandoned that idea and just let them have recess. I felt bad about messing up her plans. She said they didn't know that they were missing out on something fun, but I'm sure she was bummed; she clearly loves all things Peanuts. Her classroom theme is Peanuts, and she even has Snoopy themed eyeglass frames.