Summer is nearly here!

This is what summer is all about.  Roll on Friday, five days left.

Another Classic

Little ones always struggle to know when they should and shouldn't "tell", it's hard to distinguish between telling to keep someone safe and getting them into trouble.  I love this, it's very helpful. 

I use this all the time

I have a lot of patter that I use in class.  This one is one of my favourites.  I taught it to a class a couple of years ago and a parent told me her daughter lived by the saying.  She had been sat in her car seat struggling to put on her seatbelt, when her mum asked her if she need help the response was "nope, Mrs M says it's okay not to know but it's not okay not to

try!"

Yet another countdown

I will be working this summer, supplying in preschools and nurseries and tutoring, but even I am counting down the days till the end of the school year.  

I have decided to have the first week off, I need a break. I will hopefully only work four days a week, as I want to spend sometime with GO.

Roll on the summer I say!

This is my dream

This is, or a least should be, every teachers dream.  I am proud to say that I have managed to get most of my classes to this stage within the year.  This year has been trickier, but if even managed to get there with the little village class.

Scary new school

I went to visit my next school today, I will only be there for six weeks or so, I must remember this.  It was so scary, the principal was very severe and not at all friendly.  

The teacher who is be covering for just kept repeating "I've been here for ten years!"  I know it'll be ok, I'm not staying permanently, but I am not looking forward to my time there.  In fact I'm dreading it.

I'm popular!

One of my Pinterest posts made it onto the popular board.  I was way more excited about it than I probably should have been.

School trip

I went on my first ever whole school trip with the other little village school today.  We went to Newbury, the living rainforest.  It was the day after the hottest day of the year and I was dreading it.  I hate the heat and I knew it would be uncomfortable in the huge greenhouses. I bought a pair of shorts especially for the occasion and also tested myself to a sun hat.  When combined with my sunglasses, I thought it gave my a sophisticated air, reminiscent of Hollywood actress of old.  GO got in the car, when I picked him up, took one look at me and said "who are you hiding from?"  It's a good job I love him!

I saved a life today

I suppose that is a tad dramatic.  I donated some blood, it took half an hour to register and about seven minutes to donate a pint.  I do feel proud of myself.   I may have saved a life, who knows what they will do with my little red cells.

I felt a bit woozy afterwards, but it is also roasting hot, so couldn't say what made me feel woozy.  

I decided to treat myself to shorts, a new top and a big straw hat,  it may only last a week but I can't stand the heat.

To replenish the blood and iron I have given away I'm having a nice, big, juicy steak.  I can't wait to do it again in 16 weeks!! 

Biene Owah!

Our latest topic is A Bug's Life.   Picked so that we could join the older classes on a school trip, so I could carry on my streak of never having planned one.

It is, again,a science heavy topic, but the children are all very engaged and bring in books and bugs from home.

Three weeks before the end of term, end of the school year, end of my contract at this school, I was told the school involvement officer wanted to look around.  "Feel free, we're not doing anything special.  Only making honey sandwiches."  

The next morning I arrived at my usual time and walked across the classroom to my desk.  Ooh!  The little neck hairs had got caught in my necklace, as I reached up to fix it, I felt something in my hand.  It was a bee, it flew away, all be it a little squiffy.  

I went to get a cold pack, one of the lovely ladies at breakfast club looked at it and pulled out the stinger.  I told everyone I saw.  My TA, the navy seal, wasn't happy and drove me to the local A and E department.  Where I was informed that all I needed to do was pop an antihistamine. I didn't tell school that though, the rest of the morning buzzed by.

Most dramatic way to get out of an observation, to date.