Ya one more time

Having wrestled with the blerluddy iPad for almost a week now i have come to the conclusion that if you are not planning to just surf the net or watch youtube vids, it is pretty much useless. The blogger ap on it is crap, as is the FB one, and also the outlook app is also crap. I can't get my photos to connect to FB and it insists on calling my iPad a phone, even though it is not a phone. In short i have had enough of the iPad. Facetime is great tho...

So...yet another week of hecticity. School was busy-ness plus ten and if i wasn't sleeping i was rushing about getting things done. I try not to rush of course. But it does seem like i spend much of my time pillar to posting.

Like today for instance. It began with an early start at school where i cleaned the classroom and did the final prep for Main Lesson. Then there was school. I did Here and There and then we recalled The, A, An and And. Then children then were desperate to read, so we tried reading from the Pirate Series, which is now more than 40 years ago. After big break we made whipper whoppers from silver card and then it was off to town after school to get supplies. I also brought two beautifully illustrated books on Ancient Rome and Norse, Celtic and Classical mythology which would be great for blackboard drawings. Then we collected Ghin and Oisin - there was LOTS of driving. I was completely and utterly knackered by the time it was all over.

Delightedly i have gotten two Moschino umbrellas from TK Mexx. Originally retailing at £80 they were £20 each. Fed up with flimsy umbrellas which were rubbish i thought they would be great investments. They have this crazy magic material which instantly dries. I think it is made by fairies.

I also got some super cheap shampoo on sale. I drooled over the gorgeous stationery and had to practically physically restrain myself from buying more pretty cateridge paper. There were also some lovely boxes which i could not justify buying because i have all the boxes in the world that i need.

Oisin came back from Hadrian's Wall. It seems crazy that it has already been a week. Today as i cleaned the classroom i cannot tell you how happy i was. It was honestly, truly weird. I felt so overcome with happiness that i had to sit down and just take in my surroundings. I took pictures of the work they had done for the class blog and i looked through their work to check that everyone was up to date with the Main Lesson books. There was this intense feeling of satisfaction and delight. Of so much more that needed to be done, and thinking about each and every child.

It was hilarious today actually. I got two children to make letters in plastercine - The, A and An. Then i said, after we did much pronouncing, etc, we will now write this in the practise books. Write The. How do you write The Stephanie? Hm.....i can see we will have to continue more work here.

I have been reassured that when the time is right it will happen. It may take three years, but it should happen. If it doesn't happen after class 3 you can start worrying, but i really can't help start worrying now. There is much value though in bing patient. I have seen that. Be patient, be patient, be patient. It will happen.

Here i am blogging after nearly a week. It is pretty amazing life.