It started out that I was going to teach half the group in the morning and the other half of the group in the afternoon.  The main teacher would be the reading remediation teacher because this was a reading remediation program (now called literacy). We would have 12-15 kindergarten and first graders the first week, and 12-15 second and third graders the second week. I would teach creative dramatics and readers’ theatre. Since I would have half the group, I would have about 6 students at a time–a manageable group for projects. Then the other teacher got pneumonia. Then I found out that all the kids will be coming for both weeks. So now I have all the kids for all day for two weeks.  Needless to say, there is a lot more involved.  There are assistant teachers that take one or two students out at a time for tutoring, but basically I’m teaching a lot of kids of a lot of different ages all day long (I’m free at lunch). And guess what–it’s fun!  I can do anything that I want as long as I keep them busy! We are doing folktales and fables (so far THE THREE LITTLE PIGS and THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE). Next up–THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF and THE FOX AND THE CROW. We’ve done, music, art, puppets, movement, plays, read alouds, and science (today we looked at a video of gopher tortoises and their burrows at a guy’s farm–thank you, Google Video–in order to see how we wanted to paint the shells, legs, and heads on our tortoise puppets). I like this and I  get paid to do it! I guess it’s in the blood (and if you haven’t read Brendan’s blog lately about his and Holly’s parody of HACKERS, you need to–it’s in the blood all right. )

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