Back in year 2!

Hello all!

Last night was good! Skyped Nan and Pa and mum appeared online at the same time. Dad joined in and we had a five person conversation!! Haha. 

This morning I got up and slipped back into my Putney routine. I'm teaching for the next seven school days (including today) back at the primary school I was at last term. 

I'm back in year 2 again covering my friend Alisha while she heads home for a wedding. I missed being there! Some staff have left and there are some new faces, but there are also a lot of familiar ones and it was fab stepping into the school already knowing who some people are and how the school works. 

One thing that has changed is that I no longer have to pick the children up from the playground. Instead they make their own way up! So before they arrived in the room I was madly trying to get all my photocopying etc done as two out of three of the machines in the school are out of order ATM. Stressful!! But I managed. I also had a new student starting in kingfishers today who has moved from South Africa. So the poor thing is new and has a supply! But I made an extra effort all day to include him and top kingfisher of the day. He had a smile on his face end of day so that's what matters!!!

We read a book and the kids had to write a wish down. Some of them were so cute and funny. The best was "I wish when I'm 7 I can go to university so I can build a big jet". They had to include an adjective and a "because" if they could. My example was "I wish I could fly my lovely family to England because it's my birthday next week" haha. 

Then we had maths and handwriting, very chatty but pretty good. In the afternoon we started to make a puzzle out of paper and foam. Before this though we had to learn how to say the weather in French (the puzzle was a drawing of rain clouds, thunder clouds, sun or rainbow). This was interesting - can't speak much French! Thankfully a few of the kids speak French as their first language so I enlisted some help. They did a fairly good job of the puzzle, I just had to reglue some of them and trim them. 

I got as much done after school as I could so I'm organised tmro. I've done all my printing for the whole week (I hope!) and lots of other things. There's still a list waiting for me on the board tmro morning though. 

My favourite moment of the day was when sliding the rainbow sheet onto the projector. Ones of the kids said "I can see your wedding ring!". He was talking about my right hand though. After quickly explaining which finger is your wedding finger and that I'm not married, I got bombarded with questions. "Are you married?" "Why not?" "Doesn't anyone love you?" "Will you get married?" "Can we come?" Followed by "I'm going to get married one day, I'm going to marry *insert name of class member here*" how sweet haha. 

Now I'm on the way home and quickly stopping home to get dressed, grab my things and eat some dinner. Then I'm off to West Ham to watch the hammers vs the toons (Newcastle!). I'm so excited!! Football over here is meant to have a fantastic atmosphere, which is what I really miss about afl (especially after the dogs v crows match last weekend). Lots of photos on tmro night's blog I promise!!

I hear we have a new PM btw. Maybe one day we will once again have a political party who focuses on bringing in decent policies and making Australia amazing instead of bickering like 5 year olds and stabbing each other in the back. (tell her she's dreamin'!) If you ask me, they're all complete morons, Swannie for PM! As long as the exchange rate doesn't improve, I don't care. I'm counting on it to stay the same or worsen so when I transfer pounds in November I make back the money I've lost. I'll genuinely be really stressed and upset if it improves. 

Love to all

Claire

Xoxox

PS: just got home to post this and I've received an envelope that looks suspiciously like Nan's hand writing AND a national trust magazine. Feeling very popular! I'm saving the birthday card for next week nan and pa. You two are the best xoxox