It is amazing how exhausting teaching elementary is when you're feeling under the weather, even when they are behaving well! As far as I can see, elementary school simply requires you to be "on" all the time, and that is so hard to do when you don't feel well!
Ironically, I'm not feeling particularly bad, but even my slight cold makes me a little slower, a little less tolerant, a little more annoyed with every little thing. So it takes an extra reminder to myself that they're only 8 or 9, that even though I've had them raise their hands before they speak for months, they probably won't remember to do it. That everything I do, my mood, my behavior, my comments, affect them because they are like little sponges. And that I had better make sure I don't say or do anything I might regret later.
This is particularly annoying at my school becuase there is no such thing as a subsitute here. If I am out sick, the 2nd or 4th grade teacher will get my kids stuck in their class. Which is not something I would wish on an already frustrated elementary teacher. So fingers crossed my sicknesses come and go quickly this year!
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