Monday June 17th
School was long today, but I think that is because I was tired all day. I slept a lot yesterday and I know I will sleep a lot today. I actually have already slept for 2 hours and I am still tired.
In class before school started, a kid ran in the class, put something in my basket and ran out. A minute later Soo from Denmark came in and said "Eric Teacher, look in your basket." I did. I was a little baggie that had some small cherries in it. She told me she picked them this weekend at her grandmas house. The bag was a nice bag and the Denmark kids all had them. They were delicious. She was so excited that she picked them.
In France class, near the end of it, I think Juliet may have wept... but I might have stopped it in time. Not sure... about 50/50 either way. She has one of those faces that is always on the verge of weeping, so sometimes I am not sure if it happened or not. Australia was good. Denmark... well I sort of maybe got in trouble afterwards.
One of my kids, Erica, in my second class with them (The class right before the kids go home) told me her throat hurt several times. I asked if she wanted to go to the desk teacher. Nope. She did not act ill, she was not mopey, just every once in a while said her throat was ouchy or it hurt. Kids do this all of the time. If they say they do not want to go to the desk teacher, it is normally because they are faking it and do not want to get caught. I asked Erica if she had any medicine and she said she already took it. So I thought nothing of it. She had energy and was answering questions. Well Christina comes to me after my Canada class and said that Erica's mom called the school really upset because Erica was crying when she got off the bus and had a fever. Basically equating it to us not caring enough about the kids. Of course come to find out, when mom sent Erica to school in the morning, she was already sick. She sent medicine (a lot of parents send their kids with medicine on a regular basis) but did not send any special instructions about her being sick. So, mom pawns off the sick kid on the school, and gets mad that her sick kid is still sick when she comes home and we did not do anything... Christina said I should have sent her to the desk teacher. If I sent kids to the desk teacher everytime a kid complained about something, I would have no kids in class (do note that the desk teacher also gives kids candy). Then Christina agreed. Then she said I should feel the kids forehead to see if they are hot. I have many skills, that is not one of them. I am always hot at school, and I have felt kids foreheads before and they always feel hot to me. And being able to tell the difference between 98.6 and 99 or 100. That is 2 degrees. A bit out of the scope of my feelings... She said if I dont know, I can always send them to her. If your kids is ill, DO NOT SEND THEM TO SCHOOL or if you do, at least let the school know what is up and do not get mad if your child is not pampered because we dont know. I AM NOT A MD. And if your kid is sick and contagious... well thanks for infecting my class and possibly me.
We got no work done in my Canada class today. The kids were all out of it and did not want to do anything. Some days I just have to write it off as a lost day. If I fight 12 first graders I will lose. The trouble makers will take any energy and feed off of it. I just had a very relaxed class. Went over the material informally. Tried to make it more fun. Of of my biggest problems with having no break between Kindy and them is that I have no time to prepare anything special for them. I used to be able to. Now, I cant. It makes it a lot harder to make class interesting. When I get in in the morning, I have to plan for my 6 classes of Kindergarten. When I only had 5 Kindy classes, I had the last period off before the elementary kids came in. I could plan then. Then I also had the first graders second period which gave me one period to re energize and one period to plan. Now I have none of it.
Greece was good. I do not feel I am teaching them much because the material (book) I have to use to teach them really stinks. It is not very clear and the subject matter is hard to relate to 10 year olds. It is also because the book is split between me and my co-teacher. So I do not get to do an entire lesson, I only get to do a page or 2 of the lesson, so I never get to build up any rhythm because the subject matter I teach them is never consistent.
I came home and I passed out. I woke up to my alarm so I could wake up, then stay awake for several hours and then go to bed at my normal time (hoping to get a regular rhythm again). I am still so tired and lethargic. I feel better today than I did yesterday, but not 100%. I'm still drinking a lot of fluids which I think is helping.
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