Elementary, 3rd Graders, 7-8 yr olds General Education Topics, Las Vegas, NV September 2025
- stephaniehayden
- Nov 9
- 2 min read
This assignment was at an Elementary School at CCSD where the kids were engaging and interested in a lot of different topics with a few who really did not want to focus or follow class rules, particularly with a Sub in for a couple of days.
I followed the lesson plans, as I always do when they are available, and it seemed they would rather be doing other things. I stuck to the plans and we worked to stay on schedule each day and ensure we had completed work assignments so their usual teacher wouldn't lose any ground while they were out.
It was getting more challenging by the second day, to keep kids focused, and to keep working to manage behavior issues that were disrupting the class. I noticed a few of the kids had paper they were drawing on when they had finished their folders of other stacks of work and thought maybe I should try showing them some of my coloring pages I was working on for various other projects.
I let them know I had extra copies and for kids who followed class rules, didn't disrupt or cause themselves to have to go next door to talk with another teacher about their behavior issues, they could each pick a page with a different animal or insect to take home at the end of the day to color whenever they had time.
They were very excited about this offer and while we didn't have time to color them, everyone did get one coloring page to take home. I started to think maybe I should share these coloring pages more often, and as a reward for finishing work early and following class rules.
I thought about how and when I could possibly work out some sort of schedule or organic way to introduce coloring only for 5-10 minute bursts between learning topics or before breaks.
September 2025
