u/SnooRevelations6232

Hi!

Starting this fall, I’ll be teaching English I or II ad a first year teacher. I started off this semester as a sub and am ending the semester as a fourth grade ELA teacher so it will be quite the jump but one I am VERY ready for.

I’m starting to think about my classroom library and what books I’d like to have in it. Obviously some of the classics, but I also want things that kids will find interesting and want to read. What suggestions to you have/what books have worked well for you?

As a note: I am in Texas where books are quite a hot-button topic so keep that in mind when making suggestions 🙃

Are any other elementary school teachers absolutely baffled by these kids’ lack of social awareness? I’ll be teaching high school next year thank GOD (I’ve worked with high schoolers before and while not perfect they’re at least slightly better than this) but this year I was a building sub for all elementary grades and now I’m ending the year as a 4th grade ELA sub.

These kids will just walk up to you while you’re at the front of the classroom giving instructions or shout something out. They constantly interrupt your conversations with other kids and even adults. I had a child SNAP HIS FINGERS in my face yesterday to get my attention while I was helping another student. Burping/passing gas without saying excuse me, shoving past people, totally invading personal space, asking insanely personal questions that no student should ever ask a teacher— the whole nine yards.

Are my kids exceptionally rude or is this par for the course for this generation?

A certain subset of individuals is so concerned with teachers indoctrinating their students in the classroom and trying to make them gay

Meanwhile I (26F) had a fourth grader (boy) ask me this morning (unprompted) if I was a virgin in front of the entire class.

Maybe we should focus more on what’s going on at home that makes them think that’s an appropriate thing to ask their teacher.

As the kids these days say: we are so cooked.

Edit: I made them write a page on why we only have kind and appropriate discussions, and will be talking to admin on my planning period. Had them back to back periods before lunch and recess unfortunately. Very sad because I usually love this class and don’t have issues.