Jealous?

I still would not change it for anything....

5:00am: Alarm goes off...

5:10am: I finally get out of bed...

5:30am: Eat a Hearty Breakfast (because you never know when you will be able to eat again).

6:00am: Agency calls and tells you where you will be working

6:30am: You finally come up with a public transit journey plan, on how to get to the school.

6:45am: Leave the house (Yup, it is still dark outside!!)

7:09am: Catch the Metro

7:19am: Get off at metro station that is in a different city!!! (yes they are super fast!)  

7:27am: Your bus does not show up, so you call Nexus and re-route your travel plans and catch a new bus.

7:42am: New bus shows up

8:00am: Introduce yourself to a new secretary or Head Teacher, who presents you with a foreign school policy.

8:08am: Read over notes left for you, find out you have to teach integers in numeracy, personification and metaphors in poetry, and ancient Greece for topics.  Also realize that there is no material left for you, so you must find your own material, and remember the students will start coming in at 8:50am (about 40 minutes).

8:10-8:45am: Have re-taught yourself integers, come up with an exciting attention grabbing activity for poetry and have familiarized yourself with enough information about ancient Greece.

8:55am: Thirty students aged 11 come running in excited to have noticed there is a supply in today, so decide that it is time to party and begin to run around and talk on their mobile phones.

9:20am: Register and dinner have been sorted, students have realized that I am their teacher and I mean business.

9:25am: Have been asked, if I am: American, Irish, Australian, or Scottish at least 15 times from at least 20 different students.

10:25am: Break time most students go outside, except that one student that is just DYING to show you her new book, dance moves, or new toy for the 10 mins that you wished you had to go over your next lesson plan.

10:45am: students enter once again

11:00am: students are finally calm enough to begin Literacy lesson.

11:55am: Students head off to dinner.  You are excited to get some food yourself and plan for the afternoon when you are called down to the office because one of your students has been involved with a fight outside.  After you have taken care of the mischief you are then told that you have lunch duty, so you grab your coat and head outside into the England cold rain, where the other teacher blabs your ear off, so you can’t mentally plan your next lesson.

12:55pm: Take the register

1:15pm: Students tell you that they have already done the lesson that the teacher has left for you, so you grab into your ‘magic bag’ (that all supply teachers have, and usually takes weeks to put together) and begins to teach a pre-planned lesson that you have luckily photocopied the day before.

2:30pm: Break time becomes a inside playtime because of the England rain, and the quiet time you planned to have to look over the rest of the lessons and maybe eat a yogurt turns into a chaotic mess, where Kaitlin and Dylan fight over who gets to go on the computer for 10 mins.

2:45pm: Give in to a fun activity to win over the students hearts and finally reveal to them that you are Canadian.

2:48-3:05pm: Students ask about snow, igloos, skiing, mountains and lumberjacks.

3:15pm: School ends, students stay to tell you all about their holidays that they have had in ‘America’.

3:30-5:00pm: Mark numeracy and Literacy so you can show the teacher that you are competent to come back to that school.

5:17pm: Catch bus

5:42pm: Catch Metro

6:15pm: Finally back home

7:00pm: Make dinner (FINALLY FOOD!!)

8:00pm: Begin planning for next class filling your magic bag to be ready for tomorrow.

The BEST Year 5 Class!!!! I know I am not supposed to have favourites but this IS My Favourite by far :)