This morning around 8 as I was lying comfortably in my bed I got the phone call I knew would eventually come. I quickly tried to make sure my voice didn't sound too manly, and answered. I'm finally officially a substitute teacher.

I subbed today for a fourth grade class since their teacher got sick (in class!!). I was nervous at first because I didn't really want to do kids younger than fifth and especially not for my first time ever in the classroom, but really it didn't end up mattering much. The class I had was a bit of a rowdy one, and they definitely tried to pull the whole, it's a sub, so we're going to make up rules thing. But I put the smack down on them. Well, I wrote some names down and even made two boys pull cards. I kind of surprised myself at how in charge I was. Several times I had a little bit of a mom tone, "What did I just say???" "I'm not going to ask you again!" It was definitely a bit freaky hearing those things come from my mouth. I didn't do a whole lot of teaching, they spend a lot of time outside of the classroom with computers and PE and lunch. That was a good two hours I had by myself. And the time in class we watched a video (more about that in a later post) and they did some worksheets. One kid told me I was a cool sub, which kind of makes me nervous. The cool subs were always the ones that let you get away with more than you were supposed to.. the ones the teachers don't like. Oh well.