I’m feeling bad about myself today. I subbed a 5th grade class today and it didn’t go well lol.
Today is May 7th, the instructions I got from the teacher had the dates April 6-8th, so I just went off of what it said for April 7th. The instructions were unclear, they said “have them do their bell work”, I have no clue what bell work is. The AM class said that their bell work for Math is on their iPad. They were basically playing games the entire time. I let them be because they weren’t causing too much of a problem. The teacher also left instructions for me to have them “work on the following pages in their math textbook “ after completing bell work. I didn’t bother with this. Then I tried to have them do their science work, the teacher instructed to have them read specific pages in their packets that they already have and then read an article about human organs and answer questions. They said they don’t have the article and I couldn’t find any articles on the teachers desk, just random worksheets.
The PM class was even worse. They were running around all over the place, finished their bell work in five minutes and thought they were free to run wild. When the class was getting out of control, I told them their teacher wanted them to work in their math textbook. They asked me which pages to work on and I said just to do practice in the textbook because the teacher didn’t specify what exactly they were supposed to do. Then I tried giving them random packets and worksheets that were on the desk and they all insisted they did them yesterday and wouldn’t work on them. They basically spent the rest of the day TikTok dancing, yelling, watching videos on their iPads at full volume, one girl was walking around with a lollipop in her mouth speaking to me as if she were my peer.
Anyways, that was my day.