the kids got me up at 2.24 this morning – Big came in and told me that Small had been sick. I hit the ground running at the far side of the bedroom (as you do) and got into their room in seconds, to find that he hadn’t been sick, he was just quietly sobbing to himself as I hadn’t come in to kiss them goodnight. So I kissed him goodnight and went back to bed. In my defence, I’d point out that I didn’t get home til after 10 last night – I was at a training session at school until 9 and then doing stuff with A after that.
Anyways, middle of the night wake ups make getting up that much more difficult and we had absolutely no leeway in our leaving time when we all piled down to the pavement to discover that the wing mirror had been seriously rearranged on Tim’s car, and the aerial snapped on mind. Rude words. At least both cars were still drivable, so got in and drove to work, to find some delivery lorry parked at the pub next door, blocking the entrance to the school car park unless you drove up on the kerb. More rude words. The driver is really lucky that I couldn’t find him to tell him what I thought of him – I tried.
After that, the day was a doddle, just the usual forays into class management, materials, coordination and wondering where the day has gone. Took one of our volunteers home and brought her back again – she’s doing a maths class after hours. Oh yes, that reminds me, apparently I did nothing 92 – 93. I thought I was doing a year of degree level maths at Nottingham university preparatory to a year long PGCE – I transferred back to Durham for that. But I applied for a transcript – in the hope that I could use some credits against a full maths degree – and they have nothing. They know what date I arrived, they know what date I left, and they know that I didn’t get a PGCE.
Good to know that counted for something then. At least I did get something nice in the post (thanks Em 🙂 and yes, collection seems a much better idea 😀 ) which has cheered me up this evening. And I found some more good articles. There are some books recommended within that look really interesting, like ‘The World in The Palm of Her Hand’ Geography and History for the Young Child, The Montessori Approach
, but that seems to be out of print and somewhat rare – does anyone happen to have a copy I can borrow? There’s also Celebrations of Life which doesn’t even get an Amazon listing. I’m sure I’ve seen this, Nurturing the Spirit: In Non-Sectarian Classrooms
, recommended somewhere else as well, can’t for the life of me remember where though.
Anyway, somehow I seem to have used up another half hour of my sleep time waffling about nothing much on here. I do remember that I said I might blog about my montessori training – I’ll start having a think about that this weekend I hope.
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