I subbed for a reading specialist class today. It was interesting to say the least. Overall the kids were pretty good. One of the stories we read talked about different cultures and we had to discuss the meaning of "cultures". I said that different cultures sometimes have different foods, so for the rest of the day the kids kept talking about food from Mexico- tamales, enchiladas, tortas, burritos.... Needless to say I was hungry for most of the day and have been craving a tamale or empanada ever since. Someone feed me!!!
At the end of the day I helped the other reading teacher work with two first grade students and another little girl. They were so cute! It just made me that much more excited to start my long term. The girl I was working with, however, is eight years old and is starting her second week of school EVER! No, she hasn't even been home-schooled. Crazy right? So they have an eight year old girl in a kindergarten class for part of the day and the reading class for another part of the day. When the teacher told me she was eight years old I didn't believe it! She still looks and has the mentality of a six year old. It was crazy and really quite sad to realize that kids live in those types of situations around the world more than we realize.
Tomorrow I am subbing for a half day kindergarten class and on Thursday and Friday I will be subbing for the third graders I am doing my long term in. Then I get a whole week off for Thanksgiving break. Woohoo.
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