applications and other things

Well folks, today is the last day of school. I'm at home, not working on my thesis like I should be. I decided to put up one last post before the summer break.

First of all, I have applied to a grand total of 38 LTO positions for the fall. LTO stands for long term occasional, and means filling in temporarily for a teacher who's on leave - maternity or otherwise. The jobs are all over the place - including a couple that I would absolutely love, ranging from teaching music to the old-order menno school I was at in the fall (see post), to teaching grade two down the hall from the worst class in the school, with all kinds of stuff in between. If I get a job, I'll let you, bloggerland, know.

Second of all, a while back we were watching the Halifax comedy show and one of the comedians was talking about smoking pot, and how it's best not to do it before school cause you'll get found out, and so on. But then he said "kindergarten is the only grade where you could smoke pot before class and not get caught". I thought this was hilarious and completely true. Some kindies are so out of it, it really does make you wonder...

And speaking of the worst class in the school, here's another story from them. I was on lunch duty, walking around from classroom to classroom. I come in and there they are, tossing an orange around their desks. I'm about to tell them to stop, when one kid stands up just as another kid is throwing him the orange. He doesn't notice and sits down at the exact moment that the orange lands on his chair. He sits right on it, squishing its juice all over the place. I break down laughing my head off along with the rest of the class. Of course I never did manage to get them in trouble for throwing food...

And lastly, I had the good fortune of supply teaching in a class where there was a student teacher. He did all the work and I was just there to satisfy the rules. The grade ones were sitting down to hear "Stella, Queen of the Snow" (which is a great book by the way) and here's what happened:

teacher: "this book was made in the year 2000"
kid: "I wasn't even born!"
other kids: "wow"
problem-child James: "Mr. Smith"
teacher: "Yes James"
James: "no one was born when dinosaurs were alive"
teacher: "okay James"

Talk about random. Hence the above comment about pot-smoking kindies...

So hope you all have a wonderful summer. See you in September!!