| Saturday, September 26, 2009 | |
 | wcuhatter89
Forum Rookie | Substitute Teacher
Location: Reading, PA
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Hey everyone! I'm new to these forums, and new to subbing.
Is there anything specific I should take with me when subbing? I want to be a really good sub! I've made a couple of worksheets that I can quickly make copies of when there are no plans - but they're all music related! (I'm a music teacher.) If I'm called to sub for another class.. I definitely want to go in but don't have much to rely on if the teacher's plans aren't working out for me. What can I have in my bag of tricks/where can I find something? Sorry I'm new at this! |
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| Sunday, September 27, 2009 | |
| 6th grade teacher
Forum Rookie | 6th Grade Teacher
Location: Wilkes-Barre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 23 |
My favorite game...is to play four corners...I would write a one, two, three and a four on pieces of paper and tape it to corners in the room...then I pick one person to be it...the students have to pick a corner to stand in...then the person who is it gets to pick a corner, and those students are out...it works great because you tell the kids that the quieter they are the harder it is for the person who is it to get them out...and it works with any grade k-6. I used this as a time filler at the end of the day...I would tell the kids that if we work really hard, and get through our day...I have a special suprise for them at the end of the day.
Another idea you could take is multiplcation worksheets...grades three(?) and up should be working on timestables...and times tables are a skill they always need to practice.
Reading comprehension stories...I did a google search for reading comprehension activities and came up with lots of sites...If you pick out one for early elementry and one for upper elementary you would be set...and you can always create a constructed response to go with the reading...great state assessment practice.
I also carried an expandable file folder with search a wards and coloring sheets for each holiday season/broad catagory...great time fillers
You could always write poems with the kids...yes they will groan..."Poetry...yuck" but let them write diamontes...google search for a form...letter poems...where they pick one letter and they have to create a poem with as many say r words as they can. Or acrostics...where they write a word longways down the paper, and that is the letter they start each line of the poem with...I did snowman...so a seven line poem the one time I was subbing in third grade...then I went and visited the art room during prep, (Sometimes this worked, other times it didn't) asked for white, black, orange, and a few sheets of other colors, and we made snowmen...if you can't get construction paper, there will probably be crayons and computer paper in the room...
Also search for sub tricks...you will be suprised at what you find...that is where I found out to play four corners.
Hope this helps
Amy |
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| Sunday, September 27, 2009 | |
| 6th grade teacher
Forum Rookie | 6th Grade Teacher
Location: Wilkes-Barre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 23 |
Ohhh just had a thought...after I went to one district a couple of times, and figured my way around the building...I went to the computer lab and printed off most of my worksheets that I carried around with me. I asked the principle, told him what I wanted to do, and he was more than willing to set me up on a machine.
Ohh another thought...make sure you introduce yourself to the principle preferably at the beginning of the day...it goes a long way.
Amy |
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