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Today was the day that I had really been looking forward too. It was a day that I imagined would go wonderfully, and the day that would basically determine whether I really wanted this as bad as I thought I did. I found out a few things today. You have got to be flexible, and determine what is most important. I also found out that being a sub, or getting a sub, are both hard things. I did all the lesson planning basically for today, all I really got from Miss M was where she was going to be. So this wasn’t anything like being a real sub, which I would have enjoyed having the pleasure of doing, but that’s ok. It was a lot of fun being the classroom teacher for the whole day, and I have decided that it would be my dreams come true. I enjoyed every aspect of the day, and even enjoyed having a new person watching me teach all day. I was nervous at first, because I didn’t know Mrs. W. I had now idea who she was, or anything. So it was fun to talk to her when she came in that morning. She was a nice lady, and gave me a few tidbits of information she had found throughout the years.

The day went wonderfully. I only missed English, but that is because spelling and Daily Language (part of English) took so long, and by the time I would have started to teach about exclamatory sentences we would have had to stop doing what we were doing. Students seemed to have a good day. Nothing else really went as hard as I thought it was going to go. There weren’t many problems, and I think I did well. I would have possibly changed up the Daily Language, and cut spelling a little shorter so that I could teach English, but stuff happens I guess. I also think that math went well (when Mr. P was there). I tried something using the little chips. Students really enjoyed using them, and I hope that it helped students to understand a little more. I would have changed it around a little more, and gave a few more expectations when using them, such as no touching, no playing around, and you have to listen. I think that students would have stilled played with them, but with more expectations and consequences, I could have taken the chips away if they were playing with them. Either way I think that the students would have played with them, and they really weren’t being too disruptive with them, but just an idea.

I started to put into effect the key to learning classroom management plan today. I don’t think that students really were waiting for them, and listening because of the tickets, until the tickets were taken out and I had begun to pass them out. I passed them out to quite a few students, and I did have to take a few back because they were talking and were not paying attention. All in all, I think it might be a good idea.