Life as Jenn

Wow is all I can say...the more I sub for pre-K and kindergarten classes, the more I'm falling in love with these two grade levels! Who knew that these cute kiddos have such PERSONALITY!!! Today I subbed 12 prek students and I started with a smile and ended with an even bigger smile!

One thing that truly touched me today was that these students exhibited incredible morals today. Before their snack, these 3-4 year olds always say a prayer. I asked the kiddos who would like to start off our prayer and one little girl raised her hand eagerly and said that she'd do it. I don't remember the entire prayer but it went something like this, "Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this food that we are going to eat. Bless me and my friends and for our teacher today...". I couldn't believe that a four year old was saying all of this and that she actually included me. I am so happy and thankful that I get this second chance of working with kids!

I was also very amazed how these students listened to my directions very well and followed through with them each and every step of the way!  Super impressed how organized the plans were that the teacher had left me and how everything was tabbed for each activity of the day.  I really couldn't stop thinking about how it reminded me so much of my days as a teacher when I had to write up sub plans for a day that I was going to be out of class.  Great, detailed plans are really the secrects to success for having a class run smoothly for a substitute and for most importantly, the students. 

I have decided to accept another sub job for tomorrow.  Let's see how this goes...it's for a 6th grade math class!!!  The last time I was doing anything teacher related in a middle school class was when I was an intern...yikes!  I'll make sure that I bring my bag of teacher tricks, you know...just in case!  I have emailed the teacher I am subbing for tomorrow to get myself mentally prepared for the math lessons.  Wish me luck!