Teacher sick days – what do you do

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  • August 8, 2012 at 4:56 pm
    Katrina in AK
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    I have a nasty cold today, which pretty much precludes lots of reading aloud.

    What do you do with younger students when it is really hard to read?

    My ideas: audiobooks, a movie, games, art projects.

    I would love to hear what you do when Mama is too sick to teach well.

    August 8, 2012 at 5:09 pm
    Sara B.
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    To be honest, we just take the day off.  Unless I can just give the older one(s) something to do independently that also doesn’t require a narration, but usually I just say, “Go play and let Mom sleep.”  We school year-round, so taking off a day or 2 (or a week, if everyone comes down with it one after the other) just doesn’t phase us too much.  I don’t have beginning and end dates to our school year usually.  We never end up finishing or starting “on time,” anyway.  😛

    August 8, 2012 at 5:20 pm
    LDIMom
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    Agree with Sara B. Take care of yourself and let them go play! Of course putting in a movie is great for some quieter time if you need it to rest. Don’t know ages of your DC, but ours are old enough they can go play unattended. DSs, 13 and 12, can take care of little DD, 2, except for changing a diaper, which they will bring her to me for LOL!

    I don’t know about your DC, but I don’t like to let them loose with art projects b/c if unsupervised, mine will make a big mess even when not meaning to. Now crayons, colored pencils or markers and their sketchbooks or scratch paper, yes, anything else, no! And little DD has scribbled on some furntiure (never had this with any of the others), so she has to be watched closely even with the basics of art supplies.

    Hope you feel better soon! Nothing worse than a summer cold. Frown

    August 8, 2012 at 5:21 pm
    LDIMom
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    Feel the need to clarify LOL! “unattended” meaning in the bonus room or their rooms. Out in the backyard if I can see them from the large window that looks out back.

    August 8, 2012 at 5:30 pm
    Tristan
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    If we don’t take the day off I have olders read aloud to youngers, we do math games/manipulatives, board games, file folder games, etc. My older 3 (ages 6, 7, 11) can do their schoolwork independently of me if needed, the younger 4 boys (4, 3, 1, and 6 mos) just need redirected to activities that don’t require mom talking much. 🙂

    August 8, 2012 at 6:43 pm
    suzukimom
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    Once when I had laryngitis but was ok otherwise I used audiobooks (libvox) for the books we could. Generally when sick I lie on the couch dozing with a movie in for the kids. Time to recuperate for me… treat for them

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