I am teaching a middle school art class today, and wouldn't you know it, it is the second to last day of the quarter, so all the kids are doing is finishing their projects and cleaning out their cubbies. *sigh* I suppose that even if it wasn't the end of the quarter, I would be given non-teaching plans for the class. Then again, I imagine that if I were a permanent art teacher, I wouldn't want some stranger coming in and mucking around in my room all day. I did get to teach a bunch of kindergarten and 2nd graders how to marble paper a few months back.
So, I am spending the day sitting in the art room, reading the "New Yorker" and smelling that wonderful art smell. It is a nice antidote to the day I had yesterday--13 kindergartners. ( Nine boys and four girls, they were sweet but quite a handful. I was physically exhausted at the end of the day.)
