Found your khaki?

I'm having issues uploading the Inspiration Monday picture, it's too big a file and Blogger is saying no- so you could go to the Two birds direct to have a look except it doesn't seem to be loading there either.   Basically, it's Rachel Bilson wearing a khaki coloured jacket with tatty jeans, a white top and a quilted bag with a pink scarf tied round it.  It looks a little like what I'm wearing if you have a reeeeeeally vivid imagination!  Check out Megan- she IS Rachel Bilson to a tee and Nora also looks amazing- who would've thought she'd had a baby in that tummy some weeks ago!
 I have NO recollection of when or where I bought these trousers (aside from M&S at some point)- tis most bizarre! I think I've committed the cardinal outfit sin here of wearing 2 slightly differing shades of the same colour in matching them with this khaki cord jacket (M&S via Oxfam).  I paired it with this contrastingly girly white blouse  (H&M via Age concern).  The shoes are Clarks originals. (Bag is from Hazel's giveaway with Cath Kidston soldiers scarf).

My second day of school has been quite positive on the whole.  Teaching 2 of the new reception classes for music was positive, not least because I knew a lot of them and they really helped to carry the new children who have never experience my music classes! There are a couple of live wires in there and I can definitely already see some character clashes in these 4-5 year olds!  Three very bossy children ended up sitting next to each other and they weren't standing any of each other's nonsense!

I was also not standing any nonsense with Year 6 in the afternoon- the two classes are notoriously difficult- due to a boy to girl ratio and I was teaching them a Ghanaian round, Nanuma- I had one or two moments of possible difficulties with them but somehow managed to keep the majority of the class positive, trying hard and getting annoyed with any who didn't- their singing was impressively good on the whole and they were interested in what they were learning so this bodes well for the term.  I actually put the levels linked to the different objectives/key skills and somehow, seeing the words Level 4 and Level 5 served as a real impetus for them to do well- it was really nice to point out particular children who were singing well and pointing to the targets and seeing their smile and how it spurred the rest of them on!  Usually I don't put levels down! Somehow with  Boy-heavy classes, this works! I feel glad that we started the term on mostly a positive note so I wont dread their lessons!

Edited, after reading Heather's post (check out her outfit- great!)   I thought this would make you laugh (or despair, whichever).   A particular 5 year old was found with 2 pencil sharpeners in the playground.  When asked where the 2 pencil sharpeners he had in the playground came from he replied that they had 'fallen from the sky'. Then when given 5 mins to sit, he said 'they came from the rocket', 5 mins later 'I brought them from home'. Finally after the teacher said she'd check with his mum, he said he'd taken them from the writing table! Ahrgh! Such an imagination at 5!

I've got an absolute glut of plums at the moment- how many plums should one eat before one should stop?