coming up for air

Ohhhh my god!
First year indeed. SO much for sharing my experience.
I have just completed my first term and my first block of 2 weeks holidays. I've been slack about blogging but I will try to do better.

The first term was much like the first week. Surviving.
Things I learnt:
Filing...
I started with 'subject' folders... i.e. English, Maths, C.O.G.S etc. Now I have about 50 different folders! It is more like Maths assessments, Measurement, Space and Geometry, times tables, mentals... and lord knows if I'm going to have to break that up even more... measurement - Mass, time, area... etc.

Adapt:
If you can't adapt, forget teaching!!! You may PLAN for something to happen, but let me tell you quite often those plans go bye byes. There are too many examples to demonstrate this... many mistakes... it can be disheartening but I smile even if I clearly don't feel like it!

So many funny tales.

I laugh when I think of....

One of the children practicing his petty thievery (pick locking) skills when he tried to use a paper clip to open my store room cupboard. You see he was trying to assist a friend, I had locked a toy he was playing with in there. He was trying to get it out. Problem was he snapped the paper clip and I WAS LOCKED OUT OF MY STORE ROOM. Oh the chaos when the rest of the class realised what had happened. The LOLLIES were in the store room. No lolly rewards on Friday... oh my lordy!!!!!!!!!

I will have to add to this when I think of them. What a shame I didn't share them as they happened....

My R & R during the holidays I went to New Zealand for a week. It was amazing I loved it. There was an earthquake... 7.8 on the richter scale the second biggest earthquake in NZ history. It went for sooo long I was afraid the house I was in was going to slide down the hill at any moment. I saw snow for the first time, it even snowed while I was there and I drove in it (which was not so fun). Attached is a pic of me and my first snow man!

Back to the madness of school days. Back to learning!!! I hope... back to sharing...