Froglet
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It is interesting to see what experiences they do or don't have. I had a Santa's sorting office room as part of our North Pole day and one of the activities in it was a 'stamp design' table - several clearly didn't know what one was!
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Hello all, We started our fundraising/festive celebrations at school this week with a North Pole Day and. Trip to the local church for their Christmas tree festival. The challenges of both children and workload have been high this week but my new head has been lovely and supportive and practically so. I was going to get going on the schoolwork this morning amd did spend an hour on my emails but then a friend who I haven’t spoken to in almost a year called and we had a very, very long chat which was lovely. This afternoon I fell asleep in front of the fire. It’s now just gone 4pm and I don’t know whether to write today off in terms of work and just be cosy (it’s a grey, grim day here) or whether to try and push through the TDL in order to have a school free day tomorrow. I have a feeling that my body might make the decision for me!
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😂 I do crochet bodies as well! 😉
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They’d be very welcome! Friday was a very tough day at school so yesterday I took the day off and happily spent it packing my advent boxes. There are the usual sweet treats in there plus a kit to make snowmen from balloons and one to make marshmallow snowmen. There are charades, a Christmas scavenger hunt, a quiz, some Christmas anagrams and a story written by me! I also spent time crocheting bodies for some robins that I want to give as gifts. Today I have the planning to do and must read an epic amount of governor papers in preparation for this week’s meeting. I’m still in pjs but am going to make myself get moving soon and hopefully do that by lunchtime then I can do some exciting cleaning and more crafting this afternoon!
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Here you go… socks, a scarf and some robins!
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I finished my festive socks for me and the niblings!
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😂 I did that within about 5 seconds of getting the parcel and I made everyone else look at it!
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Well, I had intended to do my usual TDL on Saturday and rest on Sunday but I had some home jobs that had to be done this morning so that threw me off and now I’m nearly falling asleep so I might have a change of plan. I’d love to forget the TDL altogether but that’s not possible at the moment. Lots of crafting to do though and a large parcel of beautiful yarn arrived yesterday…
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I think that is the problem - schools can't insist children isolate and have to give them unauthorised absences if they stay off when they don't officially have to. Back to 'normal' is a nightmare. I'm sure other schools are having the same staffing issues we do even if a member of staff is just off for a day while they take and wait for a PCR result. The necessary ratios in early years make it even harder.
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I didn’t thanks, I will investigate… I have to admit that I get increasingly frustrated at the disappearance of smaller packets. Panders I have got a couple of recipes with custard powder in but those sound delicious! Anyway, thought I’d share my afternoon’s work. He needs some jingle bells for feet and felt for a beak but I’m pretty pleased with him. Might go for a lighter shade of brown and red.
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I would do that except it’s harder to scale down for one.
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Except that I couldn’t get a tin of custard powder this morning well unless I wanted an enormous one which I don’t as the small one lasts ages and I only have small kitchen cupboards!
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I remember my mum and dad having one once. Is this a hint that I should sent out portions of cake to FSF members? 😉
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Beautiful photo and baby - congratulations to all! I realised that I forgot to give you a ginger cake update... It's still going strong, tastes delicious, beautifully sticky on top although beginning to get a little dry in the middle - good excuse to eat custard though! I have to admit (very quietly) that I'm a little bored with it, I think if I make that one again and don't have anyone else around to feed cake to I might experiment with freezing half of it!
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Cait, thank you for posting that - Sunnyday it’s gorgeous! Good luck on the baby front! I’ve had a cold this week which has settled into one of those seal like coughs. It’s making people look at me askance even more than usual. I have an open event at school in a short while and plans to crochet a Robin this weekend. I decided to track exactly how many hours I spent on schoolwork this week…it may have been a bad choice, I’m not sure I really wanted to know! Other than the open event just the usual weekend stuff going on here. Have a good one everyone.
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We are doing in person performances this year. I’m glad it’s not just me with the emails! in more exciting news my sister-in-law who set up her own business two years ago has been added to the Christmas gift guide for both athe Guardian and Country Living magazine this weekend. We are so proud of her!
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More sock knitting at the moment - I’m aiming to make each of my niblings a candy cane striped pair in time for December.
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I know, it’s ridiculous isn’t it? An hour of it was writing 4 IEPs so that was a one off. About another hour and a half was going through emails, and responding to ones that needed it and reading all our safeguarding reports online. We’ve all been commenting on how many more emails we’re getting at the moment. Not quite sure what to do about it!
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A slightly belated happy Friday to you all. I decided to try and start the new half term by finishing all my work on Saturday. 8 and a half hours later I actually finished! This morning I have equally worked to get governor jobs done, the cleaning and a series of letters written. I’ve been for a walk round the park. I’ve made some masala chai tea and am about to settle into a cosy candlelit crafting afternoon. An update on the ginger cake experiment… it’s two weeks since I first made it. It’s still moist and now has a lovely sticky top. It was worth the wait!
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Ok, maybe we should stop with the cracker jokes or Sue will be administering severe penalties! Sue, I’d like it noted that although I started this at no point have I said the actual C word!
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I love that idea!
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Sounds like a task for FSF! 😉 I did put some cracker jokes in last year and had already decided to put some different ones in again. My youngest niece was hilarious - I wish I could share the video with you. She kept treating them as serious questions so What do you call Santa’s dog? was ‘Wellll… I would call him Elfie.’ Then when her dad said no and gave her the real answer she was totally bemused. Her mum and dad were crying with laughter and after the third one her thumb went in her mouth and was seriously put out! I feel that putting some in again would be an interesting developmental experiment!
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Thank you everyone - knew I could rely on you! Lots of great ideas there.
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Those are great ideas. I did a quiz last year which was hilarious - I wrote it thinking that we”d have a family zoom to do it together so chose questions to fit a range of ages. However mum and dad did it on their own and sent us the video…. Cue much hilarity as my mum was stunned by my dad knowing the name of the #nowman in Frozen. She’d forgotten that when my middle niece was about three she had chicken pox and he had to babysit for a day. She conned him into making her 4 mugs of hot chocolate and watching Frozen 6 times!
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Ok, huge apologies right now for mentioning anything festive but I promise I won’t use the actual C word. I could just do with your help… Last year because the family couldn’t get together over the festive period I wanted to make it extra special. I created an advent calendar and wrapped 24 gifts which were then shared out between the three families. Each day one gift was opened and a video of the opening was shared in a cloud photo album I’d set up specially. It was lovely and we were in touch with each other every day of December. I still watch some of the videos - especially the one with my then 4 year old niece’s total bemusement at the seasonal cracker jokes. Anyway, I decided that I’d like to do it again. Many of the gifts were things like mini Kitkat Santa’s. I also included scented candles, a DIY snowflake kit (folded paper), some hot chocolate sachets. My favourite was a package of cotton wool balls for an indoor snowball fight! This year many will be the same type of edible treat but I’m trying to come up with some quirky ideas for other days and any suggestions are gratefully received! Day 1 is sorted - I’m. Making my nieces and nephew candy cane striped socks!
