Eeek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost the holidays I believe! Hurrah!
Must say, my kids are being VILE at the moment! Not all, but the collective is generally just vileness! Everyone says its the time of year and they are becoming hyper (not half!). They're just LOUD and argumentative! We are doing clay again tomorrow! I am fearful! I have managed to rope in our lovely Headteacher to come and help me with them for it I hope, so all is not lost!
School Christmas fair tomorrow- I am on some sort of lucky dip and I also have to play piano for carols (eek!) We have to stay at school till 8! Some sort of compost lucky dip is going on in my classroom. Never mind the mess THEY make, am most embarassed at anyone seeing MY MESS!
I blame it on lack of storage ;-)
Anyway, I shall go back to whatever it was that I turned the computer on to do! (Can't quite remember what it was!)
Tschuss jetzt!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
The countdown begins
-Oooh, only 5 weeks and 3 days left till Christmas holidays begin! Terrible really to be wishing one's life away. The week has been varied! I have enjoyed some elements although in general, afternoons are still difficult! They seem to become somewhat monster-like come 1.15pm!
-My headteacher is very encouraging, she comes every so often and encourages me and says she can see a definite improvement as I gain confidence. I find that the morning is generally fine.
-Geography I found hard to teach this week as we were doing the features of rivers and so hard to differentiate it, especially for a class containing children ranging from a Level 1A to Level 4B (essentially the difference between a child at the beginning of year 1, to a child in Year 6!).
Am looking forward to Christmas, as have somewhat stupidly agree to play and sing in lots of concerts, services and things all over the place (but I love it!).
-Had to play for assembly (piano eek!) on Wednesday and luckily didnt have too many Les Dawson moments as is usually the case.
- I started to teach the school choir the song I have written for them this week and they sounded lovely singing it thus far! Tres exciting!
-Just bought exciting Christmas children's recipe books so I can make tantalising temptations for my friends to eat- marshmellow fudge anyone?
-My hockey-related injury still hurts, but is getting somewhat better- I can now type (accidently whacked on the index finger by an irritating child who seems to have little awareness of space and apparently hadn't paid attention to the PPA Teacher's clear instructions not to raise ones stick higher than one's waist).
-Ugly-Betty- Henry and Betty got together-yaaaaaaaaay! 'Wicked' episode last night! I love Ugly Betty, it's such a fab programme!
-Strictly Come dancing- yay for Gethan getting better, Yay for Letitia improving in confidence, Yay for Anton and Kate getting better! Hurrah for Penny! I really am not sure who I want to win thus far. I do like Penny and Ian, I do like Alisha and Matthew.
- No 1. Ladie's detective agency- FAB book! (have added in an incorrect apostrophe to rankle the pedantic grammarphiles amongst the audience! Mwa ha ha!!!)
- Most irritating mistakea made by my class this week. Well, there are lots of close contenders: the final shortlist includes:
1. 'Should of done that'. AHRGH!!!!! I've mentioned this sooo many times, we had a lesson on Standard English, I made them write 'should have' as a spelling phrase, written individual things in children's books. But still there it is in their writing.
2. The spelling for ISOCELES, SCALENE AND EQUILATERAL WAS IN THE TEXT BOOK AND ON THE BOARD, AND ON SHEETS. Why oh why oh why do they not look?
Hmmm, I only turned the computer on to find the solutions to the Hexiamonds puzzle-oops, better go back to marking!
Ciao!
-My headteacher is very encouraging, she comes every so often and encourages me and says she can see a definite improvement as I gain confidence. I find that the morning is generally fine.
-Geography I found hard to teach this week as we were doing the features of rivers and so hard to differentiate it, especially for a class containing children ranging from a Level 1A to Level 4B (essentially the difference between a child at the beginning of year 1, to a child in Year 6!).
Am looking forward to Christmas, as have somewhat stupidly agree to play and sing in lots of concerts, services and things all over the place (but I love it!).
-Had to play for assembly (piano eek!) on Wednesday and luckily didnt have too many Les Dawson moments as is usually the case.
- I started to teach the school choir the song I have written for them this week and they sounded lovely singing it thus far! Tres exciting!
-Just bought exciting Christmas children's recipe books so I can make tantalising temptations for my friends to eat- marshmellow fudge anyone?
-My hockey-related injury still hurts, but is getting somewhat better- I can now type (accidently whacked on the index finger by an irritating child who seems to have little awareness of space and apparently hadn't paid attention to the PPA Teacher's clear instructions not to raise ones stick higher than one's waist).
-Ugly-Betty- Henry and Betty got together-yaaaaaaaaay! 'Wicked' episode last night! I love Ugly Betty, it's such a fab programme!
-Strictly Come dancing- yay for Gethan getting better, Yay for Letitia improving in confidence, Yay for Anton and Kate getting better! Hurrah for Penny! I really am not sure who I want to win thus far. I do like Penny and Ian, I do like Alisha and Matthew.
- No 1. Ladie's detective agency- FAB book! (have added in an incorrect apostrophe to rankle the pedantic grammarphiles amongst the audience! Mwa ha ha!!!)
- Most irritating mistakea made by my class this week. Well, there are lots of close contenders: the final shortlist includes:
1. 'Should of done that'. AHRGH!!!!! I've mentioned this sooo many times, we had a lesson on Standard English, I made them write 'should have' as a spelling phrase, written individual things in children's books. But still there it is in their writing.
2. The spelling for ISOCELES, SCALENE AND EQUILATERAL WAS IN THE TEXT BOOK AND ON THE BOARD, AND ON SHEETS. Why oh why oh why do they not look?
Hmmm, I only turned the computer on to find the solutions to the Hexiamonds puzzle-oops, better go back to marking!
Ciao!
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