Great Substitute Idea!

 

Always a Good Idea

Sometimes I use these, but I've also been known to leave the substitute a blank sheet of file folder labels, with instructions for them to hand out to each student and let the children write their names on them to aide her with identification.

In addition, and I've learned this from past mistakes, I don't pre-label these with my class roster. The mobility at my school is high, which means there's often students who leave and new students registered, making the pre-done labels obsolete.

Substitute Teacher Idea - How Many

I'm having a substitute teacher in the class tomorrow while I take a day off to for a doctor's appointment. And while trying to figure out something for the kiddos to do, I came up with this idea.

Each child gets a half-sheet. (You can click on the jpg picture above to get a full-sized version you can save and print.). Before I ran off the copies, in the big rectangles I wrote such items such as TV, CHAIRS, TABLES, FLAGS, COMPUTERS, etc. The smaller rectangles on the right are for the kids to write the quantities. 

It's rather like a combination scavenger hunt and inventory game. I'm hoping they get a kick out of it. Plus I can keep a master to make other similar "hunt and count" activities.