Froglet
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Zigzag, I hope your mum recovers quickly. I am so ready for half term! Although the TDL for it (including report writing) is fairly lengthy. I spent yesterday restoring a little order to my kitchen, living room and bedroom and today has just been reading and resting and a trip to Tesco. I am shattered and had a nap too. I had grand plans for finishing the cleaning today but I don't think it's going to happen! Instead I'm investigating the new cherry flavour jaffa cakes - I'm not convinced!
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Does that really need explanation or am I the only person who wears full PPE to eat anything with a tomato based sauce?! 😉😂
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I know some of ours have - adults forget that children will tell their teachers anything they think is fun news. Sometimes it’s a wobbly tooth, sometimes it’s My mummy is 43 today. Sometimes it’s a play date in the middle of a lockdown. PS washing is still on the line...
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Well, I fell asleep on the sofa at 8.15pm last night, woke up and went to bed at 10pm. Got up at 7am. Fell asleep at 10.30am for 2 hours. I think I was tired! I need to go and rescue the washing off the line and attempt some maths planning. I’m not hugely motivated to do either right now!
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Good luck! I can confirm that my recent experiences involved no marzipan but in my book marzipan is always a good thing!
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Much calmer day today, thanks everyone!
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Bless you all. Thank you. Yeah, bit of a tough week. I have a particularly challenging child who I have totally failed to achieve anything for today - he spent half the afternoon hitting me, the TA or other children and just shouting “no” at us when asked to do anything. My class in general were hard work today, very noisy and rude to the MDS team. I really loudly told them off and then felt bad for having yelled. I got frustrated and therefore snappy in a staff meeting because someone kept nagging at me to do something which I had already said I’d do. Still tomorrow is a new day!
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It’s not Friday but please can it be Friday soon!
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I’m even later but happy birthday!
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Congratulations to the second vaccine people. It’s felt like a long week this week. However, I got to see an actual in person doctor on Thursday after trying and failing to even get a phone call for a month. My skin is still incredibly itchy but I feel like things might be heading in the right direction. It’s a grey, horrible day here and I’m really going to try to use that to tackle some of my epic TDL. I’m really struggling to focus on work at the moment when I’m not at school and it’s becoming overwhelming. My procrastination skills are at their best but that’s not really helping the situation! Any tips very gratefully received. Other than that the usual weekend of shopping, cleaning and knitting is on the cards - am now on my 9th pair of socks.
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Oi! Less of the balaclava abuse thank you! That neon tartan one is one of my greatest achievements!
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Go for it! I was a crocheter too then decided to have a go at socks last summer. I love it. I can recommend a great pattern/tutorial to follow if you want?
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Great news Sunnyday. Have a lovely weekend. I have just finished another pair of socks which are for my mum. Off to have tea with her and dad in a bit.
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I’m sure you have lots of plans - enjoy!
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I was wondering when we'd hear from you! 😉
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I'm going to look that one up! Thank you!
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I've discovered that if you google 'children's picture books' + the number you get some ideas. Might be an excuse to buy more books... ;-)
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Great ideas! Maybe we should write our own story clock!
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Thanks Panders - it was much harder than I thought - definitely Brains Trust needed! It was more that I liked the idea and wondered if it was possible and was thinking it would be a nice way to give my class (year 1) a reading goal - we currently have 'Can you read a rainbow?' where I've copied the covers of 7 books which are broadly each colour of the rainbow and put it up on the wall. I used books that we had in school and it definitely increased interest. To be honest, my next 'theme' for my classroom is around sunflowers/growing/art/sculpture - I'm aiming for my reading corner to be a reading garden. We made a house for the 3 pigs last term out of large cardboard boxes and I'm wanting to turn that into a garden shed that they can read in (need to find some small torches - it's dark in there). It was just that the clock idea intrigued me. You had some interesting ideas - and my class love the Three little wolves and the big bad pig!
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So, I was browsing pinterest as you do (the bread dough is rising, the tomato soup is simmering and the ironing is looking at me) and came across a book clock. Like this one here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/AQfPtxE_rr59nyodxd6QVBtWaVD1A__jfJOfzS1Tcy18gOIsy6S2CzY/ I was pondering whether it would be possible to do a children's version so started trying to come up with possible books to use. So far I've managed 101 Dalmatians (!) and Five Children and It neither of which were quite what I had in mind so I thought I'd put it out there as a bit of a FSF challenge - can any suggest ideas for picture books that I could create a book clock out of?!
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My mum has three or maybe 4. She has her ‘normal’ one and possibly the one she had when I was little then she inherited machines from her mum and her aunt - beautiful antique singers with the winding handle.
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I’m relieved to hear that. In my first throes of sock knitting (which I am still loving) I did get a little carried away with yarn buying! Part of my next week’s plans for sorting include making a space that can b3come a craft room.
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She’s very lovely Sunnyday. I have had a busy week - lots of schoolwork, rest and sock knitting. Had the best Easter Sunday as my sister and her family came up to mum and dad’s. My niblings are just so lovely and we had a great time - it was worth the sunburn! I will be working again tomorrow as we have to hand laptops in next week but after that I am planning a week of crafting, cleaning, sorting and maybe some gardening.
