I'm back at school! Things aren't the smoothest they could be. We've had a major technological meltdown which is causing several of my colleagues troubles and strife. I feel wholly unprepared for a new lot of little monsters. But! It should be an interesting and rewarding year.

Under the cut I recount something that happened today. Something that I think shows who I've been, how I'm growing, and how things currently stand.

( I've no doubt that this will seem incredibly trivial... )

Part of today was me getting to accidentally listen to a couple of my students point out how cool I am because I get their references (to be fair to everyone, the reference was 'hasta la vista'. My 8 year old kids think they invented the world. But yes, I have a passing knowledge of Monsuno and beyblades, wear fannish yet still school appropriate t ( Read more... )

I teach year 2/3s (7, 8, 9 year olds) and have these two students, K and A, who are BFFs ( Read more... )

( I've been holding off on writing this... )

I was back at school today. I really didn't want to be. But it ended up being okay, actually.

At my school we've been working on gathering student feedback to help inform our practice ( Read more... )

Decided to show my students the peacock spider video set to music today, as we're learning the information report genre in English/Science on another spider. I'd pre-watched the first two minutes and only intended to show those two minutes. Anyway, I got caught up marking spelling work, and suddenly I hear ( Read more... )

It turns out you do need more than three hours sleep in order to successfully teach. So many things went wrong today. Not even adding 'so many things' in capitals properly conveys the abundant ways today went wrong. I thought I was perfectly organised. And I was, really. I had everything I needed to have. I thought I gave my instructions clearly ( Read more... )

School was back today. I did not want to go. When I was there it actually wasn't that bad. I have three new students, bringing me up to having one of the largest classes in the school. But, no, it wasn't the worst day ever. It's just that there's Regular Loz and Teacher Loz, and Regular Loz wanted to frolic some more in the blissful world of fanfic ( Read more... )