24.1.26 - 30 - The week that was

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The class are doing brilliantly. All of them are up with their times tables and they are now working towards goals which they can achieve. Fridays are lovely days where we will be working hard to complete anything we need to complete. And yesterday that meant learning how to wash up after cleaning, their cross stitch, their passages on Zarathustra. It has been an amazing time really.

I have really enjoyed the work we have done over the last few months. Next week start with decimals. It should be relatively straightforward. They all understand fractions and now they will understand decimals. And then we will learn how to convert and then be on our way to percentages. Then more geometry. Maths will be a singe now because they have their tables and understand fractions.

The hardest part of maths has been cracked for most of them.

So there it is.

The car passed its MOT and I'll get it serviced by another mechanic. Just the engine checked and all. I'll book the trip to Lancaster and accommodation. The weather is perfectly awful. Just perfectly awful.

It has been the wettest end of Jan I have remembered. Ever.

What else?

Oisin is not feeling well. 

It's 820 am. I have discovered that actually I'm not bad at beginner's As Gaelige. Not bad at all. Duolingo is alright. I'm slowly picking things up here and there. 

Apart from that... oh yes... I am now with this massive manuscript which I must now read through and then arrange and try to find a publisher for. I think I have sufficient numbers of short stories... I could have a political collection, an Irish collection, a dystopian collection. I love this. I have over 40 stories.

So, here goes nothing. 

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