I lost the Plans!

It was like a circus!

So it finally happened.  I lost the days plans, never to be found again!  I think one of the Kindergartners took them home.  I know that one boy was very anxious about my writing a note to his teacher on the plans.  Maybe he swiped them.  I don't know.   I looked EVERYWHERE during my lunch.  I had a morning Kindergarten class that went pretty well, and in the afternoon I had 4 groups of students coming in and out of the classroom.  I was supposed to be teaching them all different things, pick them up from their classrooms, and return them to different classrooms or specials!!! I looked high and low, I asked for help from the partner teacher, I asked for her afternoon schedule from the office, and I tried to call her from the number the office gave me.  No Love!  I was completely on my own.  I waited until the first time, that I could remember and I hoped that the teacher would know that there was a sub.  She didn't, her kids were left alone in her classroom.  One of them finally came down looking for their teacher and then went back to get all of the rest.  They knew who was coming next, so I took them to where they were supposed to go, but no one was there!  I could go on like this.  Point being, sometimes you have to roll with it and HOPE everything turns out okay.  It did, as far as I know.  Hopefully there isn't still some kid waiting in an intervention room hoping for a teacher to show up!

     So maybe now I will copy the plans first thing and stash a copy, especially if they are complicated, like these!

Sicky, Sicky, Sick, Sick!

I have been sick since early January.  Some days I just don't feel like getting out of bed and end up shutting off my phone.  Most days that I have worked over the last month and a half, I feel like I may have been sicker than the teacher that called out!

I've had the flu, chest cold, head cold, a really bad cough, sore throat, ear aches, and MORE!  It just doesn't stop!!!   It feels like I may just be sick for the rest of my life!

One day I had a job and when I woke up I just knew there was no way I would be able to teach Junior High Science while feeling like that.  I tried to cancel my job at 5am, but the system would not let me cancel the job.  I had to call and call until I could get a hold of someone in Human resources or at the school.  I wasn't able to get a hold of anyone until about 15 minutes before I was supposed to be there.  The HR gal explained that it is cutting it too close if they let people cancel their jobs day of, so they don't.  I explained that they would be able to have someone there on time with no problem, if I would have been able to cancel the job at 5am, it would have gotten snapped up by someone else.  So many teachers have been laid off here that it only takes seconds for sub jobs to get taken in the system.  Every district is completely saturated with subs.  Actually this year has been a bit better for subbing, for me, but that is mostly because I have teachers who request me now.  That has made up almost half of the jobs I have gotten this year!



I need help from the Care Bears!  Maybe they will make me better?