my first block of the day at school was team p.e. with four classes of grade 8 students. my sponsor teacher and another of the teachers had presumably had a brief chat about what they were going to do with this gong show of a class (120 grade 8's in one gym = an adventure). after dilly-dallying about, taking attendance and marking for p.e. strip, we sent all of the kids out for a one lap run while the 6 of us teachers tried to figure out what was going on. my teacher joked about how horvath and i should teach a yoga lesson in the mat room, so i ran around the gym laughing and doing a bunch of yoga-like poses. not that i really know what those are... i've never taken a lesson in my life. when the kids dragged themselves back through the doors following their run, misti numbered the kids off and the first 40 or so were sent with horvath and i for yoga. we just laughed. not only did we really have no idea what we were doing, but we had about a 5 sec walk to the room to plan it all out. however, if there's anything that i learned last semester at ubc, it's how to b.s. when i have no idea what's going on (it was something all of us p.e. folk became accustomed to in our social justice class full of try-hard elementary teachers and creepy secondary teachers - they would always come overprepared and we would come ready to make up any answer we could think of). needless to say, the yoga class went amazingly well. even the grade 8 boys seemed to like it.
if only my ridiculous crime scene unit required that little effort. eep. oh well, it's a sweet unit and my kids are going to love it. here's hoping it flies tomorrow!
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